Market evidence report — drilling-engineer

Source: 47 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 47), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	32	68 %
junior	6	13 %
senior	6	13 %
lead	2	4 %
n/a	1	2 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Microsoft Office	4	9 %
2	drilling simulation software	3	6 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	well design	15	32 %
2	data analysis	13	28 %
3	drilling operations	12	26 %
4	cost estimation	10	21 %
5	regulatory compliance	10	21 %
6	well planning	10	21 %
7	risk assessment	8	17 %
8	casing design	6	13 %
9	drilling engineering	6	13 %
10	drilling program development	6	13 %
11	directional drilling	5	11 %
12	well control	4	9 %
13	drilling program planning	3	6 %
14	hazard analysis	3	6 %
15	risk analysis	3	6 %
16	vendor evaluation	3	6 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	benchmarking	3	6 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	performance monitoring	5	11 %
2	regulatory compliance	5	11 %
3	budget tracking	4	9 %
4	compliance assurance	4	9 %
5	report preparation	4	9 %
6	contractor coordination	3	6 %
7	contractor management	3	6 %
8	crew supervision	3	6 %
9	drilling operation supervision	3	6 %
10	drilling procedure development	3	6 %
11	drilling program design	3	6 %
12	drilling program development	3	6 %
13	vendor evaluation	3	6 %
14	well plan development	3	6 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 47 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

47 ads.

Top hard skills:

well design — 32 % (15 ads)
data analysis — 28 % (13 ads)
drilling operations — 26 % (12 ads)
cost estimation — 21 % (10 ads)
regulatory compliance — 21 % (10 ads)
well planning — 21 % (10 ads)
risk assessment — 17 % (8 ads)
casing design — 13 % (6 ads)
drilling engineering — 13 % (6 ads)
drilling program development — 13 % (6 ads)

Top tools:

Microsoft Office — 9 % (4 ads)
drilling simulation software — 6 % (3 ads)
Microsoft Excel — 4 % (2 ads)
Microsoft Word — 4 % (2 ads)
Spotfire — 4 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 68 % · junior 13 % · senior 13 % · lead 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)