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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.

1,324

Postings Analyzed

88

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.

15 roles

Marketing Manager

Manager
$138Kmedian
9.2% demand417 jobs
Bachelor's Degree21%
Project Management12%
Digital Marketing10%

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Project Manager

Manager
$117Kmedian
5.8% demand261 jobs
Project Management39%
Bachelor's Degree24%
Project Management Experience19%

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Data Analyst

Mid
$123Kmedian
4.8% demand217 jobs
SQL38%
Data Analysis25%
Bachelor's Degree17%

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Data Scientist

Mid
$200Kmedian
2.4% demand107 jobs
SQL36%
Python26%
Data Science23%

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Product Manager

Manager
$169Kmedian
2.2% demand100 jobs
Product Management26%
Bachelor's Degree21%
Product Management Experience17%

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Sales Manager

Manager
$108Kmedian
1.1% demand49 jobs
Bachelor's Degree18%
Sales Experience14%
Communication Skills10%

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Software Engineer

Mid
$171Kmedian
0.8% demand36 jobs
Bachelor's Degree11%
Python11%
Software Engineering Experience8%

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Account Executive

Mid
$144Kmedian
0.5% demand22 jobs
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Growth Manager

Manager
$111Kmedian
0.5% demand22 jobs
Analytical Skills18%
Digital Marketing18%
E-commerce Management14%

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Data Engineer

Mid
$161Kmedian
0.4% demand20 jobs
Python35%
SQL30%
Data Engineering Experience25%

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Devops Engineer

Mid
$165Kmedian
0.4% demand18 jobs
CI/CD Pipelines22%
Cloud Platforms17%
Kubernetes17%

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Machine Learning Engineer

Mid
Salary pending
0.4% demand16 jobs
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Fullstack Engineer

Mid
$185Kmedian
0.3% demand15 jobs
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Content Strategist

Mid
Salary pending
0.3% demand12 jobs
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Marketing Analyst

Mid
$130Kmedian
0.3% demand12 jobs
Marketing Analytics33%
SQL25%
Digital Marketing25%

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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.

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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Also see Skill Demand Index and Company Profiles