3.9 KiB
Market evidence report — copy-editor
Source: 40 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 40), 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 | 30 | 75 % |
| n/a | 4 | 10 % |
| senior | 3 | 8 % |
| junior | 3 | 8 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Word | 7 | 18 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 5 | 12 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Office | 5 | 12 % |
| 4 | Adobe Acrobat | 3 | 8 % |
| 5 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 3 | 8 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy editing | 22 | 55 % |
| 2 | proofreading | 17 | 42 % |
| 3 | copyediting | 9 | 22 % |
| 4 | fact-checking | 7 | 18 % |
| 5 | fact checking | 6 | 15 % |
| 6 | research | 5 | 12 % |
| 7 | content editing | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | editing | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | regulatory compliance | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | style guide application | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AP Style | 5 | 12 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | article editing | 5 | 12 % |
| 2 | content review | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | cross-functional collaboration | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 40 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
40 ads.
Top hard skills:
- copy editing — 55 % (22 ads)
- proofreading — 42 % (17 ads)
- copyediting — 22 % (9 ads)
- fact-checking — 18 % (7 ads)
- fact checking — 15 % (6 ads)
- research — 12 % (5 ads)
- content editing — 8 % (3 ads)
- editing — 8 % (3 ads)
- regulatory compliance — 8 % (3 ads)
- style guide application — 8 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Word — 18 % (7 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 12 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 12 % (5 ads)
- Adobe Acrobat — 8 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 8 % (3 ads)
- Adobe InCopy — 5 % (2 ads)
- Adobe InDesign — 5 % (2 ads)
- Asana — 5 % (2 ads)
- Figma — 5 % (2 ads)
- Google Docs — 5 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 75 % · n/a 10 % · senior 8 % · junior 8 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Copy Editor | 2 |
| Editorial Assistant | 2 |
| Senior Copy Editor | 2 |
| Assistant Editor - Adventist Review | 1 |
| Content Copy Editor at Halvik Greenbelt, MD | 1 |
| Copy Chief, Opinion | 1 |
| Copy Editor - Computers Product Descriptions | 1 |
| Copy Editor - Energy Markets (OPIS) | 1 |
| Copy Editor / Fact Checker | 1 |
| Copy Editor / Proofreader | 1 |
| Copy Editor at Stand Together Arlington, VA | 1 |
| Copy Editor- Disney Publishing | 1 |
| Copy Editor II | 1 |
| Copy Editor, CNN Newsroom Weekend Night | 1 |
| Copy Editor, MSNBC Digital at NBCUniversal New York, NY | 1 |
| Copy Editor, New York Post | 1 |
| Copy Writer / Editor | 1 |
| copy-editor/proofreader | 1 |
| Digital Copy Editor, Weekends | 1 |
| Editorial Assistant, Alloy Entertainment (Publishing) | 1 |
| Editorial Assistant, High School & Humanities | 1 |
| Energy Markets Copy Editor (Hybrid) Job at News Corp in Gaithersburg | 1 |
| Future Opening: Indexer/Copyeditor | 1 |
| Hybrid Editorial Assistant – Books & Content | 1 |
| Lead Copy Editor, Curriculum Projects | 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.