Market evidence report — rail-project-engineer

Source: 51 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 51), 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
mid	35	69 %
senior	12	24 %
junior	2	4 %
lead	2	4 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Microsoft Office	8	16 %
2	AutoCAD	6	12 %
3	MicroStation	5	10 %
4	CAD	4	8 %
5	Microsoft Excel	4	8 %
6	Microsoft Word	3	6 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	quality control	10	20 %
2	project management	7	14 %
3	project planning	7	14 %
4	quality assurance	6	12 %
5	railroad design	5	10 %
6	regulatory compliance	5	10 %
7	track design	5	10 %
8	construction oversight	4	8 %
9	grading	4	8 %
10	project coordination	4	8 %
11	qc review	4	8 %
12	rail engineering	4	8 %
13	rail layout	4	8 %
14	signal system knowledge	4	8 %
15	traction power systems	4	8 %
16	construction management	3	6 %
17	contract document compliance	3	6 %
18	cost control	3	6 %
19	design calculations	3	6 %
20	engineering design	3	6 %
21	rail infrastructure design	3	6 %
22	risk management	3	6 %
23	safety compliance	3	6 %
24	schedule management	3	6 %
25	stakeholder coordination	3	6 %
26	submittal review	3	6 %
27	technical leadership	3	6 %
28	work activity planning	3	6 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	client relationship strengthening	5	10 %
2	client communication	4	8 %
3	design leadership	4	8 %
4	design team support	4	8 %
5	junior engineer guidance	4	8 %
6	project delivery	4	8 %
7	report preparation	4	8 %
8	team coordination	4	8 %
9	issue resolution	3	6 %
10	junior engineer mentoring	3	6 %
11	project management support	3	6 %
12	project planning	3	6 %
13	team leadership	3	6 %
14	team mentoring	3	6 %
15	technical oversight	3	6 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 51 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

51 ads.

Top hard skills:

quality control — 20 % (10 ads)
project management — 14 % (7 ads)
project planning — 14 % (7 ads)
quality assurance — 12 % (6 ads)
railroad design — 10 % (5 ads)
regulatory compliance — 10 % (5 ads)
track design — 10 % (5 ads)
construction oversight — 8 % (4 ads)
grading — 8 % (4 ads)
project coordination — 8 % (4 ads)

Top tools:

Microsoft Office — 16 % (8 ads)
AutoCAD — 12 % (6 ads)
MicroStation — 10 % (5 ads)
CAD — 8 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Excel — 8 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Word — 6 % (3 ads)
Bluebeam Revu — 4 % (2 ads)
Microsoft PowerPoint — 4 % (2 ads)
OpenRail — 4 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 69 % · senior 24 % · junior 4 % · lead 4 %

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)