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Market evidence report — materials-engineer
Source: 50 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 35, gb 15), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-17. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 32 | 64 % |
| senior | 8 | 16 % |
| junior | 5 | 10 % |
| n/a | 3 | 6 % |
| lead | 2 | 4 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FTIR | 5 | 10 % |
| 2 | SEM | 5 | 10 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Excel | 4 | 8 % |
| 4 | Microsoft Office | 4 | 8 % |
| 5 | optical microscopy | 4 | 8 % |
| 6 | Python | 3 | 6 % |
| 7 | XRD | 3 | 6 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | failure analysis | 15 | 30 % |
| 2 | materials engineering | 13 | 26 % |
| 3 | root cause analysis | 12 | 24 % |
| 4 | data analysis | 11 | 22 % |
| 5 | materials science | 9 | 18 % |
| 6 | process development | 9 | 18 % |
| 7 | materials development | 7 | 14 % |
| 8 | materials testing | 7 | 14 % |
| 9 | materials characterization | 5 | 10 % |
| 10 | material testing | 4 | 8 % |
| 11 | mechanical testing | 4 | 8 % |
| 12 | materials analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | metallurgy | 3 | 6 % |
| 14 | process improvement | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | statistical analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 16 | technical documentation | 3 | 6 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continuous improvement | 3 | 6 % |
| 2 | lean manufacturing | 3 | 6 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project management | 4 | 8 % |
| 2 | material evaluation | 3 | 6 % |
| 3 | material qualification | 3 | 6 % |
| 4 | process monitoring | 3 | 6 % |
| 5 | process optimization | 3 | 6 % |
| 6 | supplier collaboration | 3 | 6 % |
| 7 | team mentoring | 3 | 6 % |
| 8 | technical leadership | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | technical support | 3 | 6 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 50 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
35 ads.
Top hard skills:
- failure analysis — 34 % (12 ads)
- materials engineering — 29 % (10 ads)
- root cause analysis — 29 % (10 ads)
- process development — 23 % (8 ads)
- data analysis — 20 % (7 ads)
- materials characterization — 14 % (5 ads)
- materials science — 14 % (5 ads)
- materials testing — 14 % (5 ads)
- material testing — 9 % (3 ads)
- materials development — 9 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 11 % (4 ads)
- SEM — 11 % (4 ads)
- FTIR — 9 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 9 % (3 ads)
- optical microscopy — 9 % (3 ads)
- Celoxis — 6 % (2 ads)
- EDS — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 69 % · senior 17 % · n/a 6 % · junior 6 % · lead 3 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Materials Engineer | 7 |
| Senior Materials Engineer | 4 |
| Advanced Materials and Process Engineer | 1 |
| Aerospace Materials Engineer - MIL-STD Expert | 1 |
| Composite Material Processing Engineer | 1 |
| Early-Career Materials Engineer, Rotational Track | 1 |
| Engineer - Hot Gas Path Materials | 1 |
| Experienced Materials / Metallurgical Engineer | 1 |
| Graduate Materials Engineer - Isle of Skye, Fort Augustus - 2026 | 1 |
| Industrial Equipment Engineer/Senior Materials Engineer | 1 |
| Internship, Materials Engineer, Cell Engineering (Spring 2026) | 1 |
| Lead AM Materials Engineer - Aerospace Metals | 1 |
| Lead Materials Engineer – Forgings | 1 |
| Lead Materials Engineer - National Security & Supply Chains | 1 |
| Lead Materials Engineer - Nuclear Reactor Metals | 1 |
| Materials Analysis Engineer – Metallurgist | 1 |
| Materials Analysis Engineer – Testing & Characterization | 1 |
| Materials Engineer – Degree Apprenticeship | 1 |
| Materials Engineer – Failure Analysis & Material Testing | 1 |
| Materials Engineer - High-Performance Automotive | 1 |
| Materials Engineer (6 Month Register) | 1 |
| Materials Engineer (Metals & Polymers) | 1 |
| Materials Engineer Composites | 1 |
| Materials Engineer III | 1 |
| Materials Engineer in Capenhurst | 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.