Gate: 139 -> 78 relevant ads (44% rejected, all logged). Rankings clean of designer artifacts; DACH regional section live; ai-skills 427 -> 73 tiered; SKILL.md with clean intro, full competences, market-driven hot-tech and regeneration-proof overlays. Before/after in docs/reference-diff-ai-engineer.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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Market evidence report — business-consultant
Source: 25 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 25), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-09. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 14 | 56 % |
| senior | 10 | 40 % |
| lead | 1 | 4 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 4 | 16 % |
| 2 | Visio | 4 | 16 % |
| 3 | ServiceNow | 3 | 12 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 6 | 24 % |
| 2 | project management | 6 | 24 % |
| 3 | requirements gathering | 6 | 24 % |
| 4 | business analysis | 4 | 16 % |
| 5 | business process analysis | 4 | 16 % |
| 6 | process mapping | 3 | 12 % |
| 7 | solution design | 3 | 12 % |
| 8 | stakeholder management | 3 | 12 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lean Six Sigma | 4 | 16 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stakeholder communication | 4 | 16 % |
| 2 | process improvement | 3 | 12 % |
| 3 | team leadership | 3 | 12 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 25 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 — 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Business Consultant | 2 |
| Business Process Consultant | 2 |
| Automotive Business Consultant - High Travel, + Potential | 1 |
| Business Consultant Senior | 1 |
| Business Consultant Sr. - Federal and State Mandates | 1 |
| Business Process Consultant (Senior) | 1 |
| Business Process Consultant Jobs | 1 |
| Business Process Consultant Journeyman | 1 |
| Business Process Consultant Revenue Cycle, Intelligent Automation | 1 |
| Business Process Improvement & Analysis Analyst | 1 |
| Business Process Senior Consultant - (Performance, Data Migration & Lifecycle Optimization) | 1 |
| Business Process Specialist (BPS) / Business Process Consultant | 1 |
| ERP Business Process & Modernization Consultant (SAP) | 1 |
| Expert Strategic Business Consultant | 1 |
| FSI/Principal - Insurance - Business Process Optimization & Automation - Business Consulting | 1 |
| Organizational Change Consultant | 1 |
| Principal Consultant (Public Sector) | 1 |
| Principal, Business Consulting - Commercial Lending | 1 |
| Principal, Business Consulting - Payments Transformation | 1 |
| Senior Financial Management Consultant | 1 |
| Senior Manager Business Consulting Life Sciences | 1 |
| ServiceNow Business Process Consultant | 1 |
| ServiceNow Business Process Consultant (335) | 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.