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Market evidence report — physics-lecturer
Source: 46 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 42, gb 4), 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 |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | 33 | 72 % |
| mid | 11 | 24 % |
| junior | 2 | 4 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teaching | 21 | 46 % |
| 2 | physics teaching | 11 | 24 % |
| 3 | curriculum development | 10 | 22 % |
| 4 | laboratory instruction | 7 | 15 % |
| 5 | computational physics | 4 | 9 % |
| 6 | exam administration | 4 | 9 % |
| 7 | physics | 4 | 9 % |
| 8 | physics instruction | 4 | 9 % |
| 9 | applied physics | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | astronomy teaching | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | lecture delivery | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | student assessment | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | student mentoring | 3 | 7 % |
| 14 | theoretical physics | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | online instruction | 3 | 7 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | course instruction | 13 | 28 % |
| 2 | holding office hours | 4 | 9 % |
| 3 | committee participation | 3 | 7 % |
| 4 | course delivery | 3 | 7 % |
| 5 | curriculum development | 3 | 7 % |
| 6 | lab instruction | 3 | 7 % |
| 7 | laboratory instruction | 3 | 7 % |
| 8 | lecture delivery | 3 | 7 % |
| 9 | meeting with students | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | office hours | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | student mentoring | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 46 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
42 ads.
Top hard skills:
- teaching — 40 % (17 ads)
- physics teaching — 26 % (11 ads)
- curriculum development — 21 % (9 ads)
- laboratory instruction — 14 % (6 ads)
- computational physics — 10 % (4 ads)
- exam administration — 10 % (4 ads)
- physics instruction — 10 % (4 ads)
- applied physics — 7 % (3 ads)
- astronomy teaching — 7 % (3 ads)
- lecture delivery — 7 % (3 ads)
Seniority: n/a 76 % · mid 19 % · junior 5 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Adjunct Lecturer, Physics and Astronomy | 2 |
| Department of Physics Lecturer Pool 2026-2027 | 2 |
| Lecturer in Physics | 2 |
| Lecturer of Physics | 2 |
| Lecturer, Department of Physics, AY 26-27 | 2 |
| Lecturer/Special Lecturer - Physics | 2 |
| Adjunct Lecturer - Physics | 1 |
| Assistant Professor - Physics (Tenure-Track) | 1 |
| Engineering & Physics Lecturer Online/Evening Courses | 1 |
| Instructor Pool - Physics | 1 |
| Lecturer - Physics | 1 |
| Lecturer (Physics) | 1 |
| Lecturer (Teaching) in Observational Astrophysics | 1 |
| Lecturer (Teaching) in Physics | 1 |
| Lecturer in Physics — Teaching, Labs & Computation | 1 |
| Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy | 1 |
| Lecturer in Physics and Biophysics | 1 |
| Lecturer in Physics for Engineering | 1 |
| Lecturer in Physics, College of Sciences and Humanities | 1 |
| Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy | 1 |
| Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy | 1 |
| Lecturer/ Assistant/ Associate Professor of Physics | 1 |
| Lecturers, Physics | 1 |
| Lecturers-Physics | 1 |
| Part Time Lecturer in Physics | 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.