# Market evidence report — light-board-operator

Source: **16 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 16), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-15.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 11 | 69 % |
| n/a | 4 | 25 % |
| junior | 1 | 6 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vectorworks | 6 | 38 % |
| 2 | Lightwright | 4 | 25 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lighting operation | 6 | 38 % |
| 2 | equipment maintenance | 3 | 19 % |
| 3 | lighting programming | 3 | 19 % |
| 4 | power distribution | 3 | 19 % |
| 5 | technical troubleshooting | 3 | 19 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | system maintenance | 3 | 19 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 16 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

**Insufficient evidence** — 16 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### 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 |
|---|---|
| Light Board Operator | 3 |
| Moving Light Programmer | 2 |
| Assistant Lighting Lead / Programmer | 1 |
| Audio- Visual Programmer (Lighting Systems) | 1 |
| Entertainment Tech - Lighting | 1 |
| Event Technician & Operator | 1 |
| Full-Time / Show Operator & Lighting Maintenance Technician | 1 |
| Lightboard Programmer/Operator | 1 |
| Lighting Operator | 1 |
| On-Call Lighting Technician for Pro Theatre Runs | 1 |
| Programmer | 1 |
| Seasonal Light Board Programmer & Stage Technician | 1 |
| Theatrical Lighting Programmer | 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.