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Market evidence report — performance-lighting-technician
Source: 36 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 36), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 24 | 67 % |
| n/a | 11 | 31 % |
| junior | 1 | 3 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avid | 3 | 8 % |
| 2 | GrandMa | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Office | 3 | 8 % |
| 4 | QLab | 3 | 8 % |
| 5 | Yamaha | 3 | 8 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lighting operation | 15 | 42 % |
| 2 | audio engineering | 9 | 25 % |
| 3 | equipment maintenance | 8 | 22 % |
| 4 | lighting design | 6 | 17 % |
| 5 | troubleshooting | 6 | 17 % |
| 6 | video production | 6 | 17 % |
| 7 | technical troubleshooting | 5 | 14 % |
| 8 | stage lighting | 4 | 11 % |
| 9 | video system operation | 4 | 11 % |
| 10 | event production | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equipment setup | 7 | 19 % |
| 2 | event support | 5 | 14 % |
| 3 | equipment maintenance | 4 | 11 % |
| 4 | equipment operation | 4 | 11 % |
| 5 | event setup | 4 | 11 % |
| 6 | event coordination | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | lighting equipment operation | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | system maintenance | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | system operation | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 36 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
36 ads.
Top hard skills:
- lighting operation — 42 % (15 ads)
- audio engineering — 25 % (9 ads)
- equipment maintenance — 22 % (8 ads)
- lighting design — 17 % (6 ads)
- troubleshooting — 17 % (6 ads)
- video production — 17 % (6 ads)
- technical troubleshooting — 14 % (5 ads)
- stage lighting — 11 % (4 ads)
- video system operation — 11 % (4 ads)
- event production — 8 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Avid — 8 % (3 ads)
- GrandMa — 8 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 8 % (3 ads)
- QLab — 8 % (3 ads)
- Yamaha — 8 % (3 ads)
- Ableton Live — 6 % (2 ads)
- AVO Lights Console — 6 % (2 ads)
- Behringer X32 — 6 % (2 ads)
- Cadac — 6 % (2 ads)
- Chamsys Magic Q — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 67 % · n/a 31 % · junior 3 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Lighting Engineer | 2 |
| Traveling Lighting Controls Technician (Low Voltage) | 2 |
| A/V Lighting & Video Lead for Cruise Shows | 1 |
| Audio And Lighting Engineer at littlefield | 1 |
| Audio Visual Tech- Entertainment | 1 |
| Audio, Video & Lighting AVL Tech lead | 1 |
| Audio, Video and Lighting Technician | 1 |
| Audio, Video and Lighting Technicians at The House Of Jax LLC Bronx, NY | 1 |
| Audio/Visual Technician | 1 |
| Event Audio Visual Technician | 1 |
| Front-of-House (FOH) Sound & Lighting Technician (m/f/d) - Mein Schiff Fleet | 1 |
| Front-of-House FOH Sound & Lighting Technician | 1 |
| Lead Live Sound & Lighting Technician | 1 |
| Lighting Coordinator/Manager | 1 |
| Lighting Engineer Contractor (Part-Time) | 1 |
| Live Event AV Technician | 1 |
| Live Event AV Technician I | 1 |
| Live Event AV Technician: Sound & Lighting Pro | 1 |
| Live Event Stage Technician | Gear, Lighting & Audio |
| Live Event Tech Specialist: Lighting, Audio & Video | 1 |
| Live Event Technician | 1 |
| On-Site AV Technician: Projectors, Conferencing & Lighting | 1 |
| PART TIME LIGHTING ENGINEER | 1 |
| Part-Time AV Tech Lead (Audio, Lighting & Video) | 1 |
| Part-Time Event Technician — Audio, Video & Lighting | 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.