4.8 KiB
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.