15 skills LinkedIn says are most likely to get you hired in 2020 - plus the affordable online courses you can take to build them

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• LinkedIn created a list of the most in-demand hard and soft skills in 2020's job market.
• The company used data from 660+ million professionals in its network and 20+ million job listings to determine the skills in high demand relative to their supply.
• You'll find the 15 hard and soft skills listed below, as well as affordable online courses you can take to build them.
• See more: 9 online computer science classes that are free until May 31 - and each comes with a free certificate you can add to LinkedIn

It can be difficult to discern which skills companies are prioritizing, and what makes your résumé - but not another - stand out to recruiters. This common gripe among job seekers is why LinkedIn uses its vault of business data to create a job market road map each year.

This year, the company used data from 660+ million professionals in its network and 20+ million job listings to determine the hard and soft skills that are most in-demand (and most likely to get a candidate hired) in 2020.

To define the most in-demand skills, LinkedIn focused on skills that are in high demand relative to their supply. Demand was measured by identifying the skills listed on the LinkedIn profiles of people who are getting hired at the highest rates. Only cities with 100,000+ LinkedIn members were included in LinkedIn's evaluation, according to the company.

Below, we compiled the most in-demand hard and soft skills of 2020, according to LinkedIn. The online courses we listed to help you build these skills - LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Coursera, and edX - are among the most popular and inexpensive options available today.

Coursera and edX allow you to take classes from the top universities in the world, like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and more, for a fraction of the cost. You can audit nearly all of these courses for free, but auditing typically doesn't include graded homework or full access to course materials. You also don't receive a certificate of completion when you audit, which you can add to your résumé, CV, and LinkedIn profile. Enrollment fees for these online courses typically range from $30-$160. Right now, Coursera is offering $0 enrollment to 100 courses until May 31.

Udemy offers over 100,000 video courses and typically prices them around $13 each. LinkedIn Learning offers over 15,000 courses and comes with a free one-month trial. After the trial period, access is $29.99 a month or $240 a year.

Below are the 15 hard and soft skills that are most likely to get you hired in 2020, according to LinkedIn:

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