Writing a project manager resume

Everything below is counted from 6,186 live project managerpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 6,186
Employers: 1,466
Remote: 11%
Typical pay: $86k–173k
Verified live (7d): 5,447

What they ask for

Counted across 1,022 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

PMP46%
Microsoft Excel25%
Microsoft PowerPoint12%
Professional Engineer11%
Atlassian JIRA10%
Autodesk AutoCAD9%
Scrum9%
SAP8%
Microsoft Project8%
Smartsheet6%
Enterprise Resource Planning6%
Six Sigma5%
Microsoft Outlook5%
OSHA5%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Turner & Townsend531
AECOM256
ESE-Jones Lang LaSalle Building Operations Pvt Ltd107
City of New York85
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.75
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED72
Egis Group62
GE Vernova International LLC60
CORP-Corporate Office60
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services51
USABB ABB Inc.49
ProSidian Consulting, LLC49

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