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Market evidence report — university-research-assistant
Source: 27 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 27), 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 |
|---|---|---|
| junior | 12 | 44 % |
| mid | 9 | 33 % |
| n/a | 6 | 22 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 6 | 22 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Word | 4 | 15 % |
| 3 | Python | 4 | 15 % |
| 4 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 3 | 11 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 13 | 48 % |
| 2 | data collection | 11 | 41 % |
| 3 | literature review | 10 | 37 % |
| 4 | data management | 7 | 26 % |
| 5 | data organization | 6 | 22 % |
| 6 | experimental design | 4 | 15 % |
| 7 | report generation | 4 | 15 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data cleaning | 4 | 15 % |
| 2 | data entry | 4 | 15 % |
| 3 | data analysis | 3 | 11 % |
| 4 | data collection | 3 | 11 % |
| 5 | experiment execution | 3 | 11 % |
| 6 | manuscript preparation | 3 | 11 % |
| 7 | record keeping | 3 | 11 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 27 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
Insufficient evidence — 27 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
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 |
|---|---|
| Sovereign Debt Forum Research Assistant - Temporary | 2 |
| Faculty Research Assistant | 1 |
| Hybrid Research Assistant: Lab Ops & Projects | 1 |
| Part-Time Research Assistant | 1 |
| Part-Time Research Associate - Urban Heat Summer Research | 1 |
| Public Health Research Associate I: Data & Policy Support | 1 |
| Research Asistant | 1 |
| Research Assistant – Pittsburgh, PA (Health Policy & Management) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Department of Cognitive Science) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Dept. of Population, Family, & Reproductive Health) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Gap Year) - Genetics | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Health Policy and Management) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (KSAS - Cognitive Science) | 1 |
| Research Assistant (Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute) | 1 |
| Research Assistant I - Pharmacology and Molecular Therapeutics | 1 |
| Research Associate | 1 |
| Research Associate (I, II, III) - Uniformed Services University | 1 |
| Research Associate in Department of Genetics | 1 |
| Research Associate, Schaefer Center, grant-funded | 1 |
| Research Associate, The Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center | 1 |
| Senior Research Assistant | 1 |
| Student Research Assistant | 1 |
| Summer Research Assistant | 1 |
| Summer Research Assistant South-South Migration | 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.