# Market evidence report — construction-manager

Source: **40 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 40), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-10.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
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## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 28 | 70 % |
| senior | 11 | 28 % |
| lead | 1 | 2 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Procore | 8 | 20 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 7 | 18 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Office | 7 | 18 % |
| 4 | Primavera P6 | 5 | 12 % |
| 5 | Microsoft Project | 3 | 8 % |
| 6 | Smartsheet | 3 | 8 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construction management | 12 | 30 % |
| 2 | schedule management | 10 | 25 % |
| 3 | cost control | 9 | 22 % |
| 4 | contract negotiation | 8 | 20 % |
| 5 | budgeting | 7 | 18 % |
| 6 | budget management | 6 | 15 % |
| 7 | quality control | 6 | 15 % |
| 8 | risk management | 6 | 15 % |
| 9 | scheduling | 6 | 15 % |
| 10 | budget preparation | 5 | 12 % |
| 11 | contract administration | 5 | 12 % |
| 12 | project management | 5 | 12 % |
| 13 | quality assurance | 5 | 12 % |
| 14 | subcontractor management | 5 | 12 % |
| 15 | value engineering | 5 | 12 % |
| 16 | change order management | 4 | 10 % |
| 17 | cost estimating | 4 | 10 % |
| 18 | change management | 3 | 8 % |
| 19 | construction inspection | 3 | 8 % |
| 20 | construction project management | 3 | 8 % |
| 21 | project scheduling | 3 | 8 % |
| 22 | risk mitigation | 3 | 8 % |
| 23 | schedule development | 3 | 8 % |
| 24 | vendor management | 3 | 8 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constructability reviews | 3 | 8 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | budget management | 8 | 20 % |
| 2 | site inspection | 6 | 15 % |
| 3 | permit acquisition | 4 | 10 % |
| 4 | project closeout | 4 | 10 % |
| 5 | schedule management | 4 | 10 % |
| 6 | client communication | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | progress reporting | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | project oversight | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | project planning | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | stakeholder collaboration | 3 | 8 % |
| 11 | subcontractor coordination | 3 | 8 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 40 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

40 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- construction management — 30 % (12 ads)
- schedule management — 25 % (10 ads)
- cost control — 22 % (9 ads)
- contract negotiation — 20 % (8 ads)
- budgeting — 18 % (7 ads)
- budget management — 15 % (6 ads)
- quality control — 15 % (6 ads)
- risk management — 15 % (6 ads)
- scheduling — 15 % (6 ads)
- budget preparation — 12 % (5 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Procore — 20 % (8 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 18 % (7 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 18 % (7 ads)
- Primavera P6 — 12 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Project — 8 % (3 ads)
- Smartsheet — 8 % (3 ads)
- BlueBeam — 5 % (2 ads)
- Google Sheets — 5 % (2 ads)
- Google Suite — 5 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 5 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 70 % · senior 28 % · lead 2 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Construction Project Manager | 3 |
| Construction Management Specialist | 2 |
| Development and Construction Manager | 2 |
| Senior Construction Manager | 2 |
| Senior Cost Manager | 2 |
| Sr. Residential Construction Project Manager | 2 |
| Assistant Project Manager with Experience on Concrete Construction | 1 |
| Commercial Construction Assistant Project Manager - Mission Critical | 1 |
| Commercial Construction Project Manager | 1 |
| Construction Manager  3 - Tysons, VA | 1 |
| Construction Manager - Rail & Transit | 1 |
| Construction Manager / Owner’s Representative – Multifamily | 1 |
| Construction Manager w/ Railway Construction Experience  (Full-time) | 1 |
| Construction Manager/Clerk of the Works | 1 |
| Construction Manager: Lead Mission-Critical Facility Projects | 1 |
| Construction Project Manager - Mechanical | 1 |
| Director of Design and Construction | 1 |
| Impactful Construction Manager - Infrastructure & Projects | 1 |
| Infrastructure & Capital Projects – Deputy Construction Manager – Transit, ANS | 1 |
| Mechanical Construction Project Manager | 1 |
| Preconstruction Manager | 1 |
| Professional Project Manager - Senior | 1 |
| Project Cost Controls Manager, PV South Central | 1 |
| Project Manager (Construction) | 1 |
| Project Manager, Tenant Improvements & Capital Planning – GREF, AMER Preconstruction | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.