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Market evidence report — land-planner

Source: 52 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 41, gb 11), 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 32 62 %
senior 13 25 %
junior 4 8 %
lead 3 6 %

Tools — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 Microsoft Excel 8 15 %
2 GIS 7 13 %
3 Microsoft Office 7 13 %
4 Microsoft Word 7 13 %
5 AutoCAD 6 12 %
6 ArcGIS 5 10 %
7 Microsoft Outlook 3 6 %
8 SketchUp 3 6 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 land use planning 14 27 %
2 project management 13 25 %
3 land planning 8 15 %
4 data analysis 7 13 %
5 budgeting 6 12 %
6 business development 6 12 %
7 regulatory compliance 6 12 %
8 report writing 6 12 %
9 site plan review 6 12 %
10 policy development 5 10 %
11 zoning 5 10 %
12 comprehensive planning 4 8 %
13 land use analysis 4 8 %
14 landscape architecture 4 8 %
15 master planning 4 8 %
16 urban planning 4 8 %
17 due diligence 3 6 %
18 land use and zoning 3 6 %
19 permit management 3 6 %
20 policy analysis 3 6 %
21 research 3 6 %
22 research and analysis 3 6 %
23 site analysis 3 6 %
24 site design 3 6 %
25 site planning 3 6 %
26 urban design 3 6 %

Methods — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 comprehensive planning 8 15 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 staff mentoring 6 12 %
2 client communication 4 8 %
3 project coordination 4 8 %
4 project execution 4 8 %
5 team leadership 4 8 %
6 application preparation 3 6 %
7 business planning 3 6 %
8 client relationship management 3 6 %
9 practice vision creation 3 6 %
10 project management 3 6 %
11 proposal writing 3 6 %
12 report preparation 3 6 %
13 scope of work definition 3 6 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 52 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

41 ads.

Top hard skills:

  • land use planning — 32 % (13 ads)
  • project management — 24 % (10 ads)
  • land planning — 20 % (8 ads)
  • data analysis — 15 % (6 ads)
  • regulatory compliance — 15 % (6 ads)
  • report writing — 15 % (6 ads)
  • site plan review — 15 % (6 ads)
  • budgeting — 10 % (4 ads)
  • business development — 10 % (4 ads)
  • comprehensive planning — 10 % (4 ads)

Top tools:

  • Microsoft Excel — 20 % (8 ads)
  • Microsoft Word — 17 % (7 ads)
  • GIS — 15 % (6 ads)
  • Microsoft Office — 15 % (6 ads)
  • ArcGIS — 12 % (5 ads)
  • AutoCAD — 12 % (5 ads)
  • Microsoft Outlook — 7 % (3 ads)
  • SketchUp — 7 % (3 ads)
  • Adobe Acrobat — 5 % (2 ads)
  • Adobe Creative Suite — 5 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 61 % · senior 24 % · junior 10 % · lead 5 %

UK (gb)

Insufficient evidence — 11 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
Land Planner 7
Land Use Planner 3
Practice Builder - Land/Urban Planning 3
Consulting Municipal Land Planner 2
Urban Planner 2
Campus Land Planner 1
Campus Planner - University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1
City Planner 1
Contract Land Use Planner 1
Development Coordinator (Land Operations) 1
Director of Planning 1
Executive Lead, Land Planning & Development 1
Junior Land Use Planner - Permit & Policy Impact 1
Land / Urban Planner 1
Land Planner in Houston 1
Land Use Planner - Development Review 1
Land Use Planner Miami
Land User Planner 1
Landscape Architect/Land Planner 1
Legislative Land Use Planner. 1
Managing Consultant, Land Use & Visual Impact Planner 1
Planner 1
Planner I/II - Current Planning 1
Planner II (Associate Planner) 1
Planner—Environmental and Land Use 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.