Market evidence report — knowledge-engineer

Source: 32 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 32), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-14. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	20	62 %
senior	7	22 %
junior	3	9 %
lead	2	6 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Google Sheets	6	19 %
2	ChatGPT	5	16 %
3	Claude	5	16 %
4	Gemini	5	16 %
5	SQL	5	16 %
6	Git	4	12 %
7	GPT-5	3	9 %
8	Microsoft Excel	3	9 %
9	Slack	3	9 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	metadata management	16	50 %
2	taxonomy development	15	47 %
3	taxonomy design	10	31 %
4	content classification	6	19 %
5	data governance	6	19 %
6	data labeling	6	19 %
7	data modeling	5	16 %
8	data validation	5	16 %
9	information architecture	5	16 %
10	pattern recognition	5	16 %
11	autocategorization	4	12 %
12	data analysis	4	12 %
13	metadata design	4	12 %
14	vocabulary development	4	12 %
15	data annotation	3	9 %
16	data cleanup	3	9 %
17	knowledge management	3	9 %
18	ontology engineering	3	9 %
19	questionnaire design	3	9 %
20	regulatory alignment	3	9 %
21	requirements translation	3	9 %
22	translation review	3	9 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	agile development	4	12 %
2	ai-driven modeling	3	9 %
3	structured onboarding	3	9 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	taxonomy maintenance	12	38 %
2	dataset review	5	16 %
3	job title standardization	5	16 %
4	metadata validation	5	16 %
5	occupation mapping	5	16 %
6	roadmap development	4	12 %
7	stakeholder engagement	4	12 %
8	annotation	3	9 %
9	approval workflow management	3	9 %
10	classification	3	9 %
11	cross-functional collaboration	3	9 %
12	data insight communication	3	9 %
13	edge case tracking	3	9 %
14	metric recommendation	3	9 %
15	program communication	3	9 %
16	questionnaire localization	3	9 %
17	remediation process leadership	3	9 %
18	stakeholder training	3	9 %
19	translation model refinement	3	9 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 32 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

32 ads.

Top hard skills:

metadata management — 50 % (16 ads)
taxonomy development — 47 % (15 ads)
taxonomy design — 31 % (10 ads)
content classification — 19 % (6 ads)
data governance — 19 % (6 ads)
data labeling — 19 % (6 ads)
data modeling — 16 % (5 ads)
data validation — 16 % (5 ads)
information architecture — 16 % (5 ads)
pattern recognition — 16 % (5 ads)

Top tools:

Google Sheets — 19 % (6 ads)
ChatGPT — 16 % (5 ads)
Claude — 16 % (5 ads)
Gemini — 16 % (5 ads)
SQL — 16 % (5 ads)
Git — 12 % (4 ads)
GPT-5 — 9 % (3 ads)
Microsoft Excel — 9 % (3 ads)
Slack — 9 % (3 ads)
Git Lab / GitHub — 6 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 62 % · senior 22 % · junior 9 % · lead 6 %

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)