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Role Intelligence

What Employers Actually Require by Role

Every data point comes from real scored postings, not salary surveys or career advice. Each role page breaks down required skills by depth level (L1 through L5), so you can see exactly what employers expect at each seniority tier. You'll find which skills appear in 80%+ of postings and where candidates consistently fall short.

677

Postings Analyzed

68

Avg Jobs / Role

Daily

Updated

Each profile is built from real job postings, not surveys. Skill frequency, salary ranges, and common gaps are recalculated daily.

10 roles

Marketing Manager

Manager
$138Kmedian
12.6% demand296 jobs
Digital Marketing20%
Marketing Strategy15%
Data Analysis15%

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Project Manager

Manager
$128Kmedian
6.1% demand143 jobs
Project Management50%
Communication Skills22%
Budget Management20%

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Data Analyst

Mid
$113Kmedian
3.5% demand83 jobs
SQL55%
Data Analysis46%
Bachelor's Degree14%

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Product Manager

Manager
$174Kmedian
2.6% demand61 jobs
Product Management33%
Product Management Experience13%
Data Analysis13%

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Data Scientist

Mid
$152Kmedian
1.2% demand29 jobs
Data Science28%
Python28%
SQL28%

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Software Engineer

Mid
$167Kmedian
0.7% demand16 jobs
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Sales Manager

Manager
Salary pending
0.6% demand14 jobs
Communication21%
Sales Experience21%
Communication Skills21%

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Growth Manager

Manager
$100Kmedian
0.6% demand14 jobs
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Content Strategist

Mid
Salary pending
0.5% demand11 jobs
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Marketing Analyst

Mid
$130Kmedian
0.4% demand10 jobs
Marketing Analytics40%
Digital Marketing30%
Data Analysis30%

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What is a role intelligence page?

Each page pulls from real scored postings, not surveys or career advice. The result is a living requirements profile: which skills appear in 80% of postings, at what depth (L1 through L5), and where candidates consistently fall short.

Three things you get on every role page:

  • •Required skills ranked by frequency with L-level depth bars showing what employers actually expect
  • •Salary data extracted from postings that disclose it median resists outlier distortion better than average
  • •Common skill gaps where applicants most frequently score below the required depth
A Senior Data Analyst role might list SQL at L4 in 92% of postings but show a 28% gap rate at that depth. That's where to spend your prep time.

How This Connects to Other Data

Skill Demand Pages

Which roles drive demand for a given skill

Company Profiles

Who's actively hiring for this title

Live Job Browser

Fresh postings, scored in real time

Frequently Asked Questions

The exact count is displayed on every page. The publishing threshold is 15 scored jobs; anything below that is queued but not visible yet. Sample sizes grow as new postings enter the pipeline from ongoing crawls.

Every extracted skill, ranked by how often it appears in postings for that title. Each entry shows frequency as a percentage, the average depth employers expect (L1 through L5), and a distribution bar. The Skill Demand Index has individual detail pages if you want to go deeper on a specific skill.

They come from postings that disclose compensation. Both average and median are shown; the median resists outlier distortion better. Not every posting includes pay, so the salary sample can be smaller than the total job count.

The 15-posting minimum filters out roles without enough data to be meaningful. The current corpus skews toward marketing, product, and data titles because those drove early usage. Software Engineer, DevOps, and similar titles are accumulating postings and will publish automatically once they cross the threshold.

Those platforms report self-reported salary surveys. These pages report extracted requirements from live postings: which skills, at what depth, with what frequency. Salary surveys tell you what people earned. Posting analysis tells you what companies are asking for today.

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