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Market evidence report — typist
Source: 51 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 50, gb 1), 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 | 20 | 39 % |
| n/a | 15 | 29 % |
| junior | 14 | 27 % |
| lead | 1 | 2 % |
| senior | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Word | 18 | 35 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 12 | 24 % |
| 3 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 8 | 16 % |
| 4 | Best Authority | 5 | 10 % |
| 5 | Microsoft Office | 5 | 10 % |
| 6 | iManage | 4 | 8 % |
| 7 | Kofax Power PDF | 3 | 6 % |
| 8 | Litera Compare | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | Microsoft Outlook | 3 | 6 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data entry | 25 | 49 % |
| 2 | proofreading | 16 | 31 % |
| 3 | typing | 11 | 22 % |
| 4 | document formatting | 10 | 20 % |
| 5 | editing | 10 | 20 % |
| 6 | feedback provision | 9 | 18 % |
| 7 | information organization | 9 | 18 % |
| 8 | media evaluation | 9 | 18 % |
| 9 | audio transcription | 8 | 16 % |
| 10 | transcription | 8 | 16 % |
| 11 | word processing | 8 | 16 % |
| 12 | document creation | 4 | 8 % |
| 13 | document production | 4 | 8 % |
| 14 | filing | 4 | 8 % |
| 15 | legal transcription | 4 | 8 % |
| 16 | legal document creation | 3 | 6 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruction following | 9 | 18 % |
| 2 | media content review | 9 | 18 % |
| 3 | research completion | 8 | 16 % |
| 4 | content quality evaluation | 7 | 14 % |
| 5 | audio transcription | 5 | 10 % |
| 6 | document creation | 5 | 10 % |
| 7 | document formatting | 4 | 8 % |
| 8 | team collaboration | 4 | 8 % |
| 9 | accurate transcription | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | confidentiality maintenance | 3 | 6 % |
| 11 | data entry | 3 | 6 % |
| 12 | deadline adherence | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | deadline management | 3 | 6 % |
| 14 | document typing | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | draft editing | 3 | 6 % |
| 16 | report preparation | 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)
50 ads.
Top hard skills:
- data entry — 50 % (25 ads)
- proofreading — 32 % (16 ads)
- typing — 22 % (11 ads)
- document formatting — 20 % (10 ads)
- editing — 20 % (10 ads)
- feedback provision — 18 % (9 ads)
- information organization — 18 % (9 ads)
- media evaluation — 18 % (9 ads)
- transcription — 16 % (8 ads)
- word processing — 16 % (8 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Word — 36 % (18 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 24 % (12 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 16 % (8 ads)
- Best Authority — 10 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 10 % (5 ads)
- iManage — 8 % (4 ads)
- Kofax Power PDF — 6 % (3 ads)
- Litera Compare — 6 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 6 % (3 ads)
- Canva — 4 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 40 % · n/a 28 % · junior 28 % · lead 2 % · senior 2 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Part-time Typist | 9 |
| Word Processor | 3 |
| FT Work From Home Data Entry Typist | 2 |
| Legal Transcriber/Typist with Government Security Clearance (Contract) | 2 |
| Senior Word Processor | 2 |
| Verbatim Court Reporter Transcriptionist (Contracted) | 2 |
| [Work From Home] Virtual Transcription Typist | 1 |
| Clerk Typist | 1 |
| Clerk Typist 2 (Local Government) - Columbia-Montour-Snyder-Union County MH/ID | 1 |
| Data Entry Clerk (Typist) - Remote / WFH at EKD Strategies Bethesda, MD | 1 |
| Data Entry Typist | 1 |
| Executive Assistant/Word Processor up to $90K - DC at Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC Washington DC | 1 |
| Hybrid Audio Transcriber & Word Processor, 50wpm | 1 |
| Immediate Hiring: Online Content Typist and Transcription Specialist for reputed company to Earn reputed company Weekly from Home | 1 |
| Legal Word Processor | 1 |
| Legal Word Processor - 2nd Shift | 1 |
| Legal Word Processor, Afternoon Shift at Jobot Washington DC | 1 |
| Legal Word Processor: Precision & Client Support | 1 |
| Online Transcription Jobs: Work-from-Home Opportunities at... | 1 |
| Part-Time Court Transcriber / Typist | 1 |
| Remote Legal Word Processor for Fast-Paced Document Drafting | 1 |
| Remote Typing and Transcription Administrator ? The EliteJob | 1 |
| Remote Typist & Transcriptionist | 1 |
| Transcriber | 1 |
| Weekend Legal Word Processor ( ) | 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.