# Market evidence report — microbiologist

Source: **54 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 54), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-17.
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## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 31 | 57 % |
| junior | 8 | 15 % |
| senior | 8 | 15 % |
| lead | 4 | 7 % |
| n/a | 3 | 6 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 9 | 17 % |
| 2 | LIMS | 6 | 11 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Word | 6 | 11 % |
| 4 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 4 | 7 % |
| 5 | SAP | 3 | 6 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 15 | 28 % |
| 2 | microbiological testing | 15 | 28 % |
| 3 | environmental monitoring | 13 | 24 % |
| 4 | virology | 6 | 11 % |
| 5 | aseptic technique | 5 | 9 % |
| 6 | method validation | 5 | 9 % |
| 7 | aseptic techniques | 4 | 7 % |
| 8 | data documentation | 4 | 7 % |
| 9 | microbiology | 4 | 7 % |
| 10 | regulatory compliance | 4 | 7 % |
| 11 | bioburden analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 12 | cell culture | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | data review | 3 | 6 % |
| 14 | endotoxin testing | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | laboratory operations management | 3 | 6 % |
| 16 | microbiology testing | 3 | 6 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cGMP | 6 | 11 % |
| 2 | GMP | 6 | 11 % |
| 3 | SOPs | 6 | 11 % |
| 4 | glp | 4 | 7 % |
| 5 | quality control processes | 3 | 6 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equipment maintenance | 7 | 13 % |
| 2 | data analysis | 4 | 7 % |
| 3 | method development | 4 | 7 % |
| 4 | documentation | 3 | 6 % |
| 5 | environmental monitoring | 3 | 6 % |
| 6 | inventory management | 3 | 6 % |
| 7 | media preparation | 3 | 6 % |
| 8 | record maintenance | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | sample collection | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | sample testing | 3 | 6 % |
| 11 | stakeholder communication | 3 | 6 % |
| 12 | testing | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | testing performance | 3 | 6 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 54 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

54 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- data analysis — 28 % (15 ads)
- microbiological testing — 28 % (15 ads)
- environmental monitoring — 24 % (13 ads)
- virology — 11 % (6 ads)
- aseptic technique — 9 % (5 ads)
- method validation — 9 % (5 ads)
- aseptic techniques — 7 % (4 ads)
- data documentation — 7 % (4 ads)
- microbiology — 7 % (4 ads)
- regulatory compliance — 7 % (4 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Excel — 17 % (9 ads)
- LIMS — 11 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 11 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 7 % (4 ads)
- SAP — 6 % (3 ads)
- Office 365 — 4 % (2 ads)
- SharePoint — 4 % (2 ads)
- TrackWise — 4 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 57 % · junior 15 % · senior 15 % · lead 7 % · n/a 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)

**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 |
|---|---|
| Microbiologist | 6 |
| Associate Microbiologist | 2 |
| Senior Microbiologist | 2 |
| AI Safety Virologist: LLM Risk & Biosecurity | 1 |
| Associate Director, Patient Safety- Virology | 1 |
| Associate Scientist 1 - Microbiology | 1 |
| Associate Scientist, Microbiology | 1 |
| Director, Quality Microbiology | 1 |
| Entry Microbiologist: Decontamination & Mass Spec (Equity) | 1 |
| Field Virology & Infectious Disease Research Scientist | 1 |
| Field- Virology & Infectious Disease Scientist | 1 |
| Immunology / Virology Post-Doctoral Fellowship at USAMRIID | 1 |
| IN-IDOH-Microbiologist | 1 |
| Lead Medical Laboratory Scientist - Microbiology Lab at HUP, FT 2nd Shift | 1 |
| Microbiologist - Bioburden/Endotoxin | 1 |
| Microbiologist (Biosafety) | 1 |
| Microbiologist I | 1 |
| Microbiology Laboratory Technician - MD | 1 |
| Microbiology Specialist – GMP Biologics (I–III) | 1 |
| Microbiology Technologist PRN | 1 |
| Molecular Virologist: Zoonotic Pathogen Research | 1 |
| Molecular Virology Research Scientist | 1 |
| Principal Scientist, Clinical Microbiology and Virology | 1 |
| Principal Virologist, Responsible Development and Innovation, DeepMind | 1 |
| QC Microbiologist | 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.