Market evidence report — commercial-sales-representative

Source: 50 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 50), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-10. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	38	76 %
junior	9	18 %
senior	2	4 %
n/a	1	2 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Microsoft Office	6	12 %
2	Salesforce	5	10 %
3	CRM	4	8 %
4	Microsoft Excel	4	8 %
5	Microsoft Outlook	4	8 %
6	Microsoft Word	4	8 %
7	CRM system	3	6 %
8	Microsoft Windows	3	6 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	sales	23	46 %
2	account management	17	34 %
3	prospecting	16	32 %
4	lead generation	14	28 %
5	negotiation	12	24 %
6	business development	10	20 %
7	customer needs analysis	9	18 %
8	relationship building	7	14 %
9	b2b sales	6	12 %
10	customer service	5	10 %
11	contract negotiation	4	8 %
12	customer relationship building	4	8 %
13	customer relationship management	4	8 %
14	market analysis	4	8 %
15	problem solving	4	8 %
16	sales presentations	4	8 %
17	lead qualification	3	6 %
18	market trend analysis	3	6 %
19	new business development	3	6 %
20	problem-solving	3	6 %
21	proposal creation	3	6 %
22	proposal preparation	3	6 %
23	sales plan execution	3	6 %
24	sales proposal preparation	3	6 %
25	sales prospecting	3	6 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	consultative selling	3	6 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	client communication	5	10 %
2	relationship building	5	10 %
3	sales cycle management	5	10 %
4	business relationship building	4	8 %
5	lead generation	4	8 %
6	new business development	4	8 %
7	sales target achievement	4	8 %
8	issue resolution	3	6 %
9	post-installation follow-up	3	6 %
10	prospecting	3	6 %
11	report preparation	3	6 %
12	sales funnel management	3	6 %
13	sales goal achievement	3	6 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 50 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

50 ads.

Top hard skills:

sales — 46 % (23 ads)
account management — 34 % (17 ads)
prospecting — 32 % (16 ads)
lead generation — 28 % (14 ads)
negotiation — 24 % (12 ads)
business development — 20 % (10 ads)
customer needs analysis — 18 % (9 ads)
relationship building — 14 % (7 ads)
b2b sales — 12 % (6 ads)
customer service — 10 % (5 ads)

Top tools:

Microsoft Office — 12 % (6 ads)
Salesforce — 10 % (5 ads)
CRM — 8 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Excel — 8 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Outlook — 8 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Word — 8 % (4 ads)
CRM system — 6 % (3 ads)
Microsoft Windows — 6 % (3 ads)
crm software — 4 % (2 ads)
CRM systems — 4 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 76 % · junior 18 % · senior 4 % · 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)