3.5 KiB
Market evidence report — commodity-broker
Source: 26 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 26), 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 | 17 | 65 % |
| junior | 6 | 23 % |
| senior | 2 | 8 % |
| n/a | 1 | 4 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 8 | 31 % |
| 2 | Python | 5 | 19 % |
| 3 | VBA | 5 | 19 % |
| 4 | SQL | 4 | 15 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk management | 9 | 35 % |
| 2 | market analysis | 8 | 31 % |
| 3 | commodity trading | 7 | 27 % |
| 4 | business development | 4 | 15 % |
| 5 | contract negotiation | 4 | 15 % |
| 6 | data analysis | 4 | 15 % |
| 7 | statistical modeling | 4 | 15 % |
| 8 | trade execution | 4 | 15 % |
| 9 | lead generation | 3 | 12 % |
| 10 | market research | 3 | 12 % |
| 11 | negotiation | 3 | 12 % |
| 12 | options trading | 3 | 12 % |
| 13 | problem solving | 3 | 12 % |
| 14 | regulatory compliance | 3 | 12 % |
| 15 | relationship building | 3 | 12 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voice broking | 3 | 12 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | opportunity identification | 4 | 15 % |
| 2 | client onboarding | 3 | 12 % |
| 3 | market monitoring | 3 | 12 % |
| 4 | relationship building | 3 | 12 % |
| 5 | relationship maintenance | 3 | 12 % |
| 6 | trade arrangement | 3 | 12 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 26 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 — 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Broker | 2 |
| Commodity Trader-Lumber, Metals, Ag, Coal, Hardwoods | 2 |
| Commodities Broker | 1 |
| Cross Commodity Options Broker at Freight Investor Services Ltd. Stamford, CT | 1 |
| Director of Commodity Merchandising | 1 |
| EQD and Commodities Futures Trading Desk Specialist at Innova Solutions New York, NY | 1 |
| Experienced Trader (DV Commodities) | 1 |
| Experienced Trader DV Commodities | 1 |
| Fuel Oil Broker | 1 |
| Global Fuel Oil Broker — Physical Trades & Arbitrage | 1 |
| Graduate Trader (DV Commodities) | 1 |
| Graduate Trader DV Commodities | 1 |
| Grain Broker & Risk Advisor | 1 |
| Junior Broker, EQD - VN2556 | 1 |
| Junior Commodity Broker | 1 |
| Lumber Trader-USA | 1 |
| Metals Trader | 1 |
| Middle East Bunker Broker | 1 |
| NGL/Nat Gas Options Broker | 1 |
| NY Commodities Trader Options & Delta-1 Desk | 1 |
| Physical Commodity Trader | 1 |
| QIS Commodities Trader | 1 |
| Trader Trainee — Build Your Own Commodity Book | 1 |
| Trader Trainee - Industrial Minerals | 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.