4.9 KiB
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.