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Market evidence report — debt-collector

Source: 56 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 56), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority Ads Share
mid 40 71 %
n/a 11 20 %
junior 4 7 %
senior 1 2 %

Tools — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 Microsoft Excel 11 20 %
2 Microsoft Office 6 11 %
3 Microsoft Word 4 7 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 debt collection 25 45 %
2 negotiation 16 29 %
3 account management 15 27 %
4 skip tracing 9 16 %
5 collections 8 14 %
6 customer service 8 14 %
7 account reconciliation 7 12 %
8 accounts receivable 6 11 %
9 accounts receivable management 5 9 %
10 debt negotiation 5 9 %
11 payment negotiation 5 9 %
12 account analysis 4 7 %
13 account resolution 4 7 %
14 debt recovery 4 7 %
15 billing 3 5 %
16 compliance 3 5 %
17 data analysis 3 5 %
18 dispute resolution 3 5 %
19 insurance verification 3 5 %
20 payment processing 3 5 %
21 prioritization 3 5 %

Methods — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share

Responsibilities — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 customer communication 9 16 %
2 payment arrangement negotiation 5 9 %
3 debtor contact 4 7 %
4 payment plan negotiation 4 7 %
5 portfolio management 4 7 %
6 record maintenance 4 7 %
7 account documentation 3 5 %
8 debt collection 3 5 %
9 dispute resolution 3 5 %
10 handling inbound calls 3 5 %
11 payment posting 3 5 %
12 performance goal attainment 3 5 %
13 record keeping 3 5 %
14 report preparation 3 5 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 56 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

56 ads.

Top hard skills:

  • debt collection — 45 % (25 ads)
  • negotiation — 29 % (16 ads)
  • account management — 27 % (15 ads)
  • skip tracing — 16 % (9 ads)
  • collections — 14 % (8 ads)
  • customer service — 14 % (8 ads)
  • account reconciliation — 12 % (7 ads)
  • accounts receivable — 11 % (6 ads)
  • accounts receivable management — 9 % (5 ads)
  • debt negotiation — 9 % (5 ads)

Top tools:

  • Microsoft Excel — 20 % (11 ads)
  • Microsoft Office — 11 % (6 ads)
  • Microsoft Word — 7 % (4 ads)
  • accounting software — 4 % (2 ads)
  • financial software — 4 % (2 ads)
  • Microsoft Outlook — 4 % (2 ads)
  • SAP — 4 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 71 % · n/a 20 % · junior 7 % · senior 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
Collections Specialist 6
Debt Collector 4
Bilingual Entry level Debt Collector 2
Debt Collections Specialist 2
Asset Recovery - Member Solutions Representative I (Collector) 1
Call Center Debt Collection Specialist 1
Call Center Recovery Agent 1
Client Billing & Collections Specialist 1
Collection Agent 1
Collection Representative 1
Collection Representative - Remote 1
Collections Agent 1
Collections and Recovery Specialist 1
Collections Representative 1
Collections Specialist (B2B) 1
Collector I 1
Commercial Debt Collector 1
Consumer Resolution Specialist - Debt Collection Call Center 1
Consumer/Commercial Debt Collector National Service Bureau
Credit and Collections Specialist 1
Debt Collection Agent 1
Debt Collection Agent -Remote 21 1
Debt Collection Agent -Remote 8 1
Debt Collection Specialist 1
Debt Collections 8 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.