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Market evidence report — occupational-therapist
Source: 65 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 46, gb 19), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 51 | 78 % |
| n/a | 13 | 20 % |
| junior | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ProVenture | 6 | 9 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupational therapy | 27 | 42 % |
| 2 | patient assessment | 12 | 18 % |
| 3 | treatment planning | 12 | 18 % |
| 4 | discharge planning | 8 | 12 % |
| 5 | patient care | 8 | 12 % |
| 6 | treatment plan development | 8 | 12 % |
| 7 | occupational therapy evaluation | 7 | 11 % |
| 8 | patient evaluation | 7 | 11 % |
| 9 | rehabilitation | 6 | 9 % |
| 10 | therapeutic intervention | 5 | 8 % |
| 11 | clinical supervision | 4 | 6 % |
| 12 | intervention planning | 4 | 6 % |
| 13 | occupational therapy assessment | 4 | 6 % |
| 14 | patient rehabilitation | 4 | 6 % |
| 15 | pediatric occupational therapy | 4 | 6 % |
| 16 | assessment | 3 | 5 % |
| 17 | case management | 3 | 5 % |
| 18 | documentation | 3 | 5 % |
| 19 | home health services | 3 | 5 % |
| 20 | occupational therapy treatment | 3 | 5 % |
| 21 | ot evaluation | 3 | 5 % |
| 22 | patient education | 3 | 5 % |
| 23 | quality improvement | 3 | 5 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evidence-based practice | 5 | 8 % |
| 2 | patient-centered care | 3 | 5 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patient care | 10 | 15 % |
| 2 | caseload management | 9 | 14 % |
| 3 | patient skill improvement | 6 | 9 % |
| 4 | patient treatment | 6 | 9 % |
| 5 | therapy delivery | 6 | 9 % |
| 6 | patient education | 5 | 8 % |
| 7 | therapy service provision | 5 | 8 % |
| 8 | discharge planning | 4 | 6 % |
| 9 | documentation | 4 | 6 % |
| 10 | treatment planning | 4 | 6 % |
| 11 | care documentation | 3 | 5 % |
| 12 | care provision | 3 | 5 % |
| 13 | documentation maintenance | 3 | 5 % |
| 14 | medical record documentation | 3 | 5 % |
| 15 | service development | 3 | 5 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 65 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
46 ads.
Top hard skills:
- occupational therapy — 48 % (22 ads)
- patient assessment — 24 % (11 ads)
- treatment planning — 20 % (9 ads)
- patient care — 15 % (7 ads)
- patient evaluation — 13 % (6 ads)
- treatment plan development — 13 % (6 ads)
- occupational therapy evaluation — 11 % (5 ads)
- therapeutic intervention — 11 % (5 ads)
- discharge planning — 9 % (4 ads)
- pediatric occupational therapy — 9 % (4 ads)
Top tools:
- ProVenture — 13 % (6 ads)
Seniority: mid 74 % · n/a 24 % · junior 2 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Occupational Therapist | 9 |
| Travel Occupational Therapist | 5 |
| Travel Occupational Therapist - Home Health | 3 |
| Occupational Therapist - Travel Contract | 2 |
| Occupational Therapist (OT) | 2 |
| Specialist Occupational Therapist - Institute of Neurological Science (INS) – Regional AHP Team | 2 |
| Travel Occupational Therapist - SNF | 2 |
| 253820 (LF) Occupational Therapist | 1 |
| 26 Occupational Therapist - Talent Pool | 1 |
| 26/27 SY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST | 1 |
| Advanced Occupational Therapist | 1 |
| Camden Community Occupational Therapist - Band 6 | 1 |
| Lead Occupational Therapist (Forensic) – Medium, Low or Forensic Community | 1 |
| Licensed Therapist / Occupational Therapist Job | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist - Arlington, VA | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist - Greenbelt, MD | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist - Inpatient - TFP - PRN - DCMC | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist - Per Diem | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist - South East Locality Office | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist (New Grad Mentor Program) - Greater Ellicott City, MD | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist (OT) - Home Health - PRN | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist / OTR | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist Home Health | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist Home Health Visits | 1 |
| Occupational Therapist II, Stroke Unit | 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.