If it's set in the current year, what about something related to social media? It feels like the ability to mobilize and manipulate "mobs" and outrage brigades is (a) an actual skill and (b) really useful. Perhaps it's a perk or feat to have a lot of fans or followers.
Other skills:
- Firearms/Marskmanship
- Explosives/Demolitions/Combat Engineering
- Pharmaceuticals, making meth, identifying drugs
- Martial Arts or wrestling or hand to hand combat
- Driving, piloting, vehicle operations
Is the game serious or tongue-in-cheek? If it's poking fun at the contemporary world, you could have Political Correctness as a skill. Skill checks enable you to know the current buzz words, maneuver through "woke" conversations without committign microaggressions, etc.