5.5 KiB
Market evidence report — transport-engineer
Source: 52 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 52), 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 |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 23 | 44 % |
| junior | 14 | 27 % |
| senior | 11 | 21 % |
| lead | 4 | 8 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStation | 24 | 46 % |
| 2 | Synchro | 13 | 25 % |
| 3 | AutoCAD | 11 | 21 % |
| 4 | HCS | 10 | 19 % |
| 5 | Civil 3D | 8 | 15 % |
| 6 | VISSIM | 8 | 15 % |
| 7 | OpenRoads | 7 | 13 % |
| 8 | InRoads | 6 | 12 % |
| 9 | ArcGIS | 5 | 10 % |
| 10 | AutoCAD Civil 3D | 5 | 10 % |
| 11 | Microsoft Office | 5 | 10 % |
| 12 | SIDRA | 5 | 10 % |
| 13 | HEC-RAS | 4 | 8 % |
| 14 | AutoTurn | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | Geopak | 3 | 6 % |
| 16 | OpenRoads Designer | 3 | 6 % |
| 17 | SimTraffic | 3 | 6 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roadway design | 12 | 23 % |
| 2 | project management | 9 | 17 % |
| 3 | traffic engineering | 8 | 15 % |
| 4 | highway design | 7 | 13 % |
| 5 | traffic signal design | 7 | 13 % |
| 6 | drainage design | 6 | 12 % |
| 7 | transportation engineering | 6 | 12 % |
| 8 | construction management | 5 | 10 % |
| 9 | cost estimation | 5 | 10 % |
| 10 | data analysis | 5 | 10 % |
| 11 | data collection | 5 | 10 % |
| 12 | engineering design | 5 | 10 % |
| 13 | erosion control | 5 | 10 % |
| 14 | safety analysis | 5 | 10 % |
| 15 | stormwater management | 5 | 10 % |
| 16 | operational analysis | 4 | 8 % |
| 17 | quality control | 4 | 8 % |
| 18 | traffic analysis | 4 | 8 % |
| 19 | transportation planning | 4 | 8 % |
| 20 | capacity analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 21 | contract administration | 3 | 6 % |
| 22 | cost estimating | 3 | 6 % |
| 23 | engineering calculations | 3 | 6 % |
| 24 | grading | 3 | 6 % |
| 25 | structural analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 26 | work zone traffic control | 3 | 6 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MUTCD standards | 4 | 8 % |
| 2 | AASHTO standards | 3 | 6 % |
| 3 | QA/QC | 3 | 6 % |
| 4 | traffic simulation | 3 | 6 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report preparation | 7 | 13 % |
| 2 | data analysis | 6 | 12 % |
| 3 | plan preparation | 4 | 8 % |
| 4 | technical report writing | 4 | 8 % |
| 5 | design coordination | 3 | 6 % |
| 6 | design development | 3 | 6 % |
| 7 | design review | 3 | 6 % |
| 8 | project design | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | project management support | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | shop drawing review | 3 | 6 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 52 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
52 ads.
Top hard skills:
- roadway design — 23 % (12 ads)
- project management — 17 % (9 ads)
- traffic engineering — 15 % (8 ads)
- highway design — 13 % (7 ads)
- traffic signal design — 13 % (7 ads)
- drainage design — 12 % (6 ads)
- transportation engineering — 12 % (6 ads)
- construction management — 10 % (5 ads)
- cost estimation — 10 % (5 ads)
- data analysis — 10 % (5 ads)
Top tools:
- MicroStation — 46 % (24 ads)
- Synchro — 25 % (13 ads)
- AutoCAD — 21 % (11 ads)
- HCS — 19 % (10 ads)
- Civil 3D — 15 % (8 ads)
- VISSIM — 15 % (8 ads)
- OpenRoads — 13 % (7 ads)
- InRoads — 12 % (6 ads)
- ArcGIS — 10 % (5 ads)
- AutoCAD Civil 3D — 10 % (5 ads)
Seniority: mid 44 % · junior 27 % · senior 21 % · lead 8 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Transportation Engineer | 5 |
| Traffic Engineer | 4 |
| Graduate Transportation Engineer | 2 |
| Senior Technical Transportation Engineer | 2 |
| 21733 - District Traffic Engineer-NOVA | 1 |
| Chief of Transportation Engineering and Construction, Operations Director I (NCS) - Department of Transportation | 1 |
| Civil Engineering Analyst - Transportation Planning & Traffic Operations | 1 |
| Clark County Public Works- Intelligent Transportation System -ITS Traffic Engineer | 1 |
| Engineer-Transport | 1 |
| Engineer-Transport - III | 1 |
| Entry Level Transportation Engineer | 1 |
| Entry-Level Traffic Engineer | 1 |
| Entry-Level Traffic Engineer - Part-Time & Data-Driven | 1 |
| Entry-Level Transportation Engineer Grow with a Team in Fairfax | 1 |
| Highway Design Engineer | 1 |
| Junior Traffic Engineer — Signals, ITS & Planning | 1 |
| Lead Consultant, Traffic Engineering | 1 |
| Lead Traffic Engineering Team Leader — TCD & ITS | 1 |
| Lead Transportation Engineer, Traffic | 1 |
| Project Engineer - Transportation (Lead/Management Track) | 1 |
| Roadway Design Engineer: Shape Transportation Futures | 1 |
| Senior Intelligent Transportation Systems Engineer (Transportation Engineering Manager I) | 1 |
| Senior Traffic Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Traffic Engineer - Design | 1 |
| Senior Transportation Engineer | 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.