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Market evidence report — contract-manager

Source: 39 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 39), 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 31 79 %
senior 5 13 %
lead 2 5 %
junior 1 3 %

Tools — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 Microsoft Excel 10 26 %
2 Microsoft Word 8 21 %
3 Microsoft PowerPoint 6 15 %
4 Microsoft Office 5 13 %
5 Microsoft Outlook 4 10 %
6 SharePoint 4 10 %
7 Salesforce 3 8 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 contract negotiation 17 44 %
2 contract administration 12 31 %
3 contract management 9 23 %
4 risk mitigation 7 18 %
5 compliance management 6 15 %
6 proposal development 6 15 %
7 risk assessment 6 15 %
8 risk management 6 15 %
9 negotiation 5 13 %
10 acquisition planning 4 10 %
11 compliance 4 10 %
12 compliance monitoring 4 10 %
13 market research 4 10 %
14 contract drafting 3 8 %
15 data analysis 3 8 %
16 pricing analysis 3 8 %
17 proposal preparation 3 8 %
18 subcontract administration 3 8 %
19 subcontract management 3 8 %

Methods — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share

Responsibilities — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 contract execution 5 13 %
2 contract drafting 4 10 %
3 contract negotiation 4 10 %
4 contract review 4 10 %
5 contract administration 3 8 %
6 contract lifecycle management 3 8 %
7 contract maintenance 3 8 %
8 contract support 3 8 %
9 modification processing 3 8 %
10 proposal support 3 8 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 39 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

39 ads.

Top hard skills:

  • contract negotiation — 44 % (17 ads)
  • contract administration — 31 % (12 ads)
  • contract management — 23 % (9 ads)
  • risk mitigation — 18 % (7 ads)
  • compliance management — 15 % (6 ads)
  • proposal development — 15 % (6 ads)
  • risk assessment — 15 % (6 ads)
  • risk management — 15 % (6 ads)
  • negotiation — 13 % (5 ads)
  • acquisition planning — 10 % (4 ads)

Top tools:

  • Microsoft Excel — 26 % (10 ads)
  • Microsoft Word — 21 % (8 ads)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint — 15 % (6 ads)
  • Microsoft Office — 13 % (5 ads)
  • Microsoft Outlook — 10 % (4 ads)
  • SharePoint — 10 % (4 ads)
  • Salesforce — 8 % (3 ads)
  • AWS cloud services — 5 % (2 ads)
  • ClientX — 5 % (2 ads)
  • Deltek Costpoint — 5 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 79 % · senior 13 % · lead 5 % · 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
Contract Manager 3
Business Contracts Manager, WWPS, US Federal Contracts 2
Contract Specialist-Mid-Remote 2
Contracts Manager 2
Contracts Manager with Security Clearance 2
SENIOR CONTRACT MANAGER 2
Commercial Contract Manager 1
Construction Commercial Contracts Manager (Data Centers) 1
Contract / Financial Lead with Security Clearance 1
Contract Specialist 1
Contractor - Procurement & Vendor Mgmt 1
Contracts Manager IT Effectiveness - Administration [NPS039044]
Contracts Manager 4 with Security Clearance 1
Contracts Manager at Pantheon Data Leesburg, VA 1
Contracts Specialist 5 with Security Clearance 1
Contracts/Tasks Manager 1
Director of Contracts 1
Director, Substation Contracts Management 1
Financial Management & Contract Analyst / Subject Matter Expert (SME) 1
Government Contracts & Subcontracts Manager 1
Government Contracts Manager 1
Government Contracts Manager - Healthcare Staffing 21 1
Healthcare Contracts & FMV Analyst 1
Junior Contract Specialist 2541 1
Legal Contracts Manager 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.