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Market evidence report — subtitler
Source: 44 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 44), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-20. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | 22 | 50 % |
| mid | 21 | 48 % |
| junior | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subtitle Edit | 5 | 11 % |
| 2 | Aegisub | 4 | 9 % |
| 3 | OOONA Create Pro | 4 | 9 % |
| 4 | OOONA Translate Pro | 4 | 9 % |
| 5 | Adobe Premiere | 3 | 7 % |
| 6 | DaVinci Resolve | 3 | 7 % |
| 7 | OOONA | 3 | 7 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subtitling | 23 | 52 % |
| 2 | subtitle editing | 13 | 30 % |
| 3 | quality control | 11 | 25 % |
| 4 | translation | 11 | 25 % |
| 5 | transcription | 9 | 20 % |
| 6 | compliance | 7 | 16 % |
| 7 | dubbing | 6 | 14 % |
| 8 | localization | 6 | 14 % |
| 9 | proofreading | 6 | 14 % |
| 10 | linguistic accuracy | 4 | 9 % |
| 11 | localization management | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | subtitle correction | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | subtitle review | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subtitle creation | 17 | 39 % |
| 2 | customer interaction | 11 | 25 % |
| 3 | colleague interaction | 10 | 23 % |
| 4 | daily responsibilities | 7 | 16 % |
| 5 | feedback implementation | 7 | 16 % |
| 6 | safety standards compliance | 5 | 11 % |
| 7 | accuracy assurance | 3 | 7 % |
| 8 | linguistic accuracy verification | 3 | 7 % |
| 9 | managing localization efforts | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | quality standard compliance | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | safety standard compliance | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | subtitle timing | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | video content quality control | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 44 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
44 ads.
Top hard skills:
- subtitling — 52 % (23 ads)
- subtitle editing — 30 % (13 ads)
- quality control — 25 % (11 ads)
- translation — 25 % (11 ads)
- transcription — 20 % (9 ads)
- compliance — 16 % (7 ads)
- dubbing — 14 % (6 ads)
- localization — 14 % (6 ads)
- proofreading — 14 % (6 ads)
- linguistic accuracy — 9 % (4 ads)
Top tools:
- Subtitle Edit — 11 % (5 ads)
- Aegisub — 9 % (4 ads)
- OOONA Create Pro — 9 % (4 ads)
- OOONA Translate Pro — 9 % (4 ads)
- Adobe Premiere — 7 % (3 ads)
- DaVinci Resolve — 7 % (3 ads)
- OOONA — 7 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 5 % (2 ads)
Seniority: n/a 50 % · mid 48 % · junior 2 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Netflix Subtitle Editor | 12 |
| English Subtitle Specialist (Freelance) | 3 |
| Expert Subtitle Translator/QCer English to Tagalog - Filipino 8 | 1 |
| Freelance English (US) Live Captioner/Live Subtitler | 1 |
| Freelance English US Live Captioner/Live Subtitler 8 | 1 |
| Freelance Japanese to English Subtitle Translator | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitle Creator for YouTube Videos | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitle Translator/QCer & SDH/CC Author/QC | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitle Translator/QCer & SDH/CC Author/QC at Keywords Studios Remote | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitler - French Canadian | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitler – French Canadian | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitler – Gujarati | 1 |
| Freelance Subtitler - Mandarin (Traditional) | 1 |
| Japanese subtitles/translation to be embedded to video | 1 |
| Japanese Video Subtitle Proofreader | 1 |
| Long Term YouTube Subtitle Editor Needed (Streamer Documentary Channel) | 1 |
| Multilingual Subtitle Bilingual Translators | 1 |
| Multiple language to English Subtitle Creation | 1 |
| Remote English Subtitling Specialist for YouTube Content | 1 |
| Remote Language Localization Specialist Subtitles & Dubbing 32 | 1 |
| Remote Language Localization Specialist Subtitles & Dubbing 8 | 1 |
| Remote Language Localization Specialist Subtitles & Dubbing 9 | 1 |
| Remote Mandarin Subtitler for YouTube Content | 1 |
| Senior Subtitle Editor 39 | 1 |
| Subtitle Editor Precision Captions for Streaming | 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.