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Market evidence report — quantity-surveyor
Source: 36 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 36), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| senior | 16 | 44 % |
| mid | 13 | 36 % |
| junior | 7 | 19 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | microsoft excel | 4 | 11 % |
| 2 | costx | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | industry-standard cost management tools | 3 | 8 % |
| 4 | microsoft office | 3 | 8 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contract administration | 14 | 39 % |
| 2 | cost control | 13 | 36 % |
| 3 | quantity surveying | 12 | 33 % |
| 4 | budget management | 8 | 22 % |
| 5 | cost planning | 8 | 22 % |
| 6 | contract negotiation | 7 | 19 % |
| 7 | budgeting | 6 | 17 % |
| 8 | commercial management | 6 | 17 % |
| 9 | cost management | 6 | 17 % |
| 10 | value engineering | 6 | 17 % |
| 11 | cost estimation | 5 | 14 % |
| 12 | forecasting | 5 | 14 % |
| 13 | subcontractor procurement | 5 | 14 % |
| 14 | change management | 4 | 11 % |
| 15 | financial reporting | 4 | 11 % |
| 16 | risk analysis | 4 | 11 % |
| 17 | risk management | 4 | 11 % |
| 18 | bid evaluation | 3 | 8 % |
| 19 | change control | 3 | 8 % |
| 20 | cost reporting | 3 | 8 % |
| 21 | financial analysis | 3 | 8 % |
| 22 | financial forecasting | 3 | 8 % |
| 23 | procurement | 3 | 8 % |
| 24 | risk mitigation | 3 | 8 % |
| 25 | tender preparation | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | process improvement | 4 | 11 % |
| 2 | client liaison | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | cost plan development | 3 | 8 % |
| 4 | cost report preparation | 3 | 8 % |
| 5 | cost report production | 3 | 8 % |
| 6 | cost reporting | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | final account agreement | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | junior staff mentoring | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | market trend monitoring | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | team leadership | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 36 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
36 ads.
Top hard skills:
- contract administration — 39 % (14 ads)
- cost control — 36 % (13 ads)
- quantity surveying — 33 % (12 ads)
- budget management — 22 % (8 ads)
- cost planning — 22 % (8 ads)
- contract negotiation — 19 % (7 ads)
- budgeting — 17 % (6 ads)
- commercial management — 17 % (6 ads)
- cost management — 17 % (6 ads)
- value engineering — 17 % (6 ads)
Top tools:
- microsoft excel — 11 % (4 ads)
- costx — 8 % (3 ads)
- industry-standard cost management tools — 8 % (3 ads)
- microsoft office — 8 % (3 ads)
- bluebeam — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 6 % (2 ads)
- primavera p6 — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: senior 44 % · mid 36 % · junior 19 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Senior Quantity Surveyor | 6 |
| Quantity Surveyor | 5 |
| Associate Director - Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction | 2 |
| Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor | 2 |
| Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction | 2 |
| Trainee Quantity Surveyor | 2 |
| (IM2576) Assistant Quantity Surveyor | 1 |
| Assistant Quantity Surveyor | 1 |
| Assistant Quantity Surveyor - Essex | Car Allowance & Bonus |
| Construction Cost Manager Hybrid | 1 |
| Construction Cost Manager, NA Design & Construction Governance, Global Engineering Services, GEMS D&C, Cost Management | 1 |
| Infrastructure & Capital Projects – Construction Quantity Surveyor (Lead or Mid-Career), ANS | 1 |
| Junior Quantity Surveyor — Hybrid (Up to 40% Remote) | 1 |
| Quantity Surveyor - Infrastructure & Nuclear Projects Hybrid | 1 |
| Quantity Surveyor - M&E Building Services | 1 |
| Quantity Surveyor (Structural Steel) | 1 |
| Quantity Surveyor in Woodford | 1 |
| Senior Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor | 1 |
| Senior Quantity Surveyor - Civil & MEICA, Midlands | 1 |
| Senior Quantity Surveyor (2 Year FTC) | 1 |
| Senior Quantity Surveyor: Lead Costs & Contracts | 1 |
| Senior Quantity Surveyor: Relocate to USA with Visa Sponsorship | 1 |
| Trainee Quantity Surveyor - Study & Grow on Major Projects | 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.