project-manager/references/market.md

# Market evidence report — project-manager

Source: **63 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 63), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 48 | 76 % |
| senior | 12 | 19 % |
| lead | 2 | 3 % |
| n/a | 1 | 2 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Office | 10 | 16 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 7 | 11 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Project | 7 | 11 % |
| 4 | Jira | 4 | 6 % |
| 5 | microsoft powerpoint | 4 | 6 % |
| 6 | Microsoft Word | 4 | 6 % |
| 7 | Asana | 3 | 5 % |
| 8 | MS Project | 3 | 5 % |
| 9 | Power BI | 3 | 5 % |
| 10 | SharePoint | 3 | 5 % |
| 11 | Smartsheet | 3 | 5 % |
| 12 | Tableau | 3 | 5 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project management | 32 | 51 % |
| 2 | risk management | 16 | 25 % |
| 3 | budget management | 13 | 21 % |
| 4 | project planning | 13 | 21 % |
| 5 | construction management | 10 | 16 % |
| 6 | budgeting | 9 | 14 % |
| 7 | data analysis | 8 | 13 % |
| 8 | schedule management | 8 | 13 % |
| 9 | quality assurance | 7 | 11 % |
| 10 | contract administration | 6 | 10 % |
| 11 | program management | 6 | 10 % |
| 12 | quality control | 6 | 10 % |
| 13 | resource allocation | 6 | 10 % |
| 14 | contract negotiation | 5 | 8 % |
| 15 | cost control | 5 | 8 % |
| 16 | process improvement | 5 | 8 % |
| 17 | risk mitigation | 5 | 8 % |
| 18 | schedule development | 5 | 8 % |
| 19 | contract management | 4 | 6 % |
| 20 | financial management | 4 | 6 % |
| 21 | financial reporting | 4 | 6 % |
| 22 | risk assessment | 4 | 6 % |
| 23 | risk identification | 4 | 6 % |
| 24 | scheduling | 4 | 6 % |
| 25 | stakeholder management | 4 | 6 % |
| 26 | budget development | 3 | 5 % |
| 27 | construction administration | 3 | 5 % |
| 28 | contract compliance | 3 | 5 % |
| 29 | cost estimation | 3 | 5 % |
| 30 | forecasting | 3 | 5 % |
| 31 | problem solving | 3 | 5 % |
| 32 | vendor management | 3 | 5 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agile | 4 | 6 % |
| 2 | scrum | 3 | 5 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | client communication | 11 | 17 % |
| 2 | project execution | 11 | 17 % |
| 3 | project coordination | 9 | 14 % |
| 4 | stakeholder communication | 8 | 13 % |
| 5 | project leadership | 6 | 10 % |
| 6 | status reporting | 6 | 10 % |
| 7 | project oversight | 5 | 8 % |
| 8 | project planning | 5 | 8 % |
| 9 | budget management | 4 | 6 % |
| 10 | client relationship management | 4 | 6 % |
| 11 | documentation management | 4 | 6 % |
| 12 | relationship building | 4 | 6 % |
| 13 | schedule maintenance | 4 | 6 % |
| 14 | team leadership | 4 | 6 % |
| 15 | contract compliance | 3 | 5 % |
| 16 | customer communication | 3 | 5 % |
| 17 | documentation maintenance | 3 | 5 % |
| 18 | project delivery | 3 | 5 % |
| 19 | proposal development | 3 | 5 % |
| 20 | report preparation | 3 | 5 % |
| 21 | risk mitigation | 3 | 5 % |
| 22 | schedule management | 3 | 5 % |
| 23 | subcontractor coordination | 3 | 5 % |
| 24 | team coordination | 3 | 5 % |
| 25 | timeline management | 3 | 5 % |
| 26 | vendor management | 3 | 5 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 63 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

63 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- project management — 51 % (32 ads)
- risk management — 25 % (16 ads)
- budget management — 21 % (13 ads)
- project planning — 21 % (13 ads)
- construction management — 16 % (10 ads)
- budgeting — 14 % (9 ads)
- data analysis — 13 % (8 ads)
- schedule management — 13 % (8 ads)
- quality assurance — 11 % (7 ads)
- contract administration — 10 % (6 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Office — 16 % (10 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 11 % (7 ads)
- Microsoft Project — 11 % (7 ads)
- Jira — 6 % (4 ads)
- microsoft powerpoint — 6 % (4 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 6 % (4 ads)
- Asana — 5 % (3 ads)
- MS Project — 5 % (3 ads)
- Power BI — 5 % (3 ads)
- SharePoint — 5 % (3 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 76 % · senior 19 % · lead 3 % · n/a 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 |
|---|---|
| Assistant Association Project Manager | 1 |
| Associate Vice President, Project Management Office (PMO) | 1 |
| Commercial Construction Project Manager | 1 |
| Commercial Roofing Project Manager | 1 |
| Contract Project Manager (C) - DLA | 1 |
| Custom Home Project Manager | 1 |
| Document Review Project Manager - Washington DC | 1 |
| eDiscovery Project Manager (Washington DC or New York) | 1 |
| Environmental Project Manager | 1 |
| Federal Construction Project Manager / Senior Project Manager | 1 |
| Fiber Analyst / Project Lead | 1 |
| Field Operations Manager, Special Projects | 1 |
| Finance Project Manager | 1 |
| Integrated Brand Project Manager | 1 |
| Interiors - Project Manager | 1 |
| Intermediate Project Manager | 1 |
| IT Helpdesk Project Manager with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Lead Project Manager Jobs | 1 |
| Legal Project Manager - Corporate & Finance | 1 |
| Manager, Special Projects | 1 |
| Manufacturing Project Manager | 1 |
| Mechanical Engineering Project Manager MEP- Arlington, VA | 1 |
| Mission Critical Project Manager | 1 |
| Mission Critical Project Manager (MEP) | 1 |
| Principal / Sr Principal Technical Services Project Management | 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.