# Market evidence report — ecologist

Source: **34 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 34), 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 | 19 | 56 % |
| n/a | 6 | 18 % |
| junior | 6 | 18 % |
| senior | 3 | 9 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ArcGIS | 5 | 15 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Office | 5 | 15 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 7 | 21 % |
| 2 | wetland delineation | 7 | 21 % |
| 3 | project management | 6 | 18 % |
| 4 | site investigation | 4 | 12 % |
| 5 | data management | 3 | 9 % |
| 6 | environmental science | 3 | 9 % |
| 7 | remediation | 3 | 9 % |
| 8 | report preparation | 3 | 9 % |
| 9 | technical report writing | 3 | 9 % |
| 10 | technical writing | 3 | 9 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 5 | 15 % |
| 2 | report preparation | 4 | 12 % |
| 3 | field data collection | 3 | 9 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 34 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

34 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- data analysis — 21 % (7 ads)
- wetland delineation — 21 % (7 ads)
- project management — 18 % (6 ads)
- site investigation — 12 % (4 ads)
- data management — 9 % (3 ads)
- environmental science — 9 % (3 ads)
- remediation — 9 % (3 ads)
- report preparation — 9 % (3 ads)
- technical report writing — 9 % (3 ads)
- technical writing — 9 % (3 ads)

**Top tools:**

- ArcGIS — 15 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 15 % (5 ads)
- ArcGIS Pro — 6 % (2 ads)
- AutoCAD — 6 % (2 ads)
- GitHub — 6 % (2 ads)
- Google Suite — 6 % (2 ads)
- R Studio — 6 % (2 ads)
- SAS — 6 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 56 % · n/a 18 % · junior 18 % · senior 9 %

### 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 |
|---|---|
| Environmental Scientist | 4 |
| Ecologist | 2 |
| Mid-level Environmental Scientist | 2 |
| Adjunct Faculty, Environmental Science (wildlife Ecology And Management) | 1 |
| Biodiversity & Nature Markets Scientist | 1 |
| Consultant Ecologist | 1 |
| Ecologist (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), IS-0408-09 | 1 |
| Ecologist II | 1 |
| Ecology Assistant (26 Weeks) – Americorps | 1 |
| Environmental Justice -  Environmental Scientist (EJE4) | 1 |
| Environmental Scientist / Research Environmental Scientist | 1 |
| Environmental Scientist II | 1 |
| Field Ecologist | 1 |
| Fisheries Ecologist - Data Analysis | 1 |
| Fisheries Ecologist - Field Data Collection | 1 |
| Junior Environmental Scientist/Geologist - Field & Reports | 1 |
| Managing Technical Consultant, Ecologist | 1 |
| Mid-level Geologist, Engineer, or Environmental Scientist | 1 |
| NEON Field Ecologist I - Instrumentation - KS | 1 |
| NEON Field Ecologist I – Instrumentation – KS | 1 |
| Principal Technical Consultant, Ecologist | 1 |
| Range Ecologist | 1 |
| Remote Ecologist & Environmental Scientist | 1 |
| Restoration Ecologist | 1 |
| Senior Ecologist + Placement Bonus of 1,750 | 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.