Writing a project manager resume

Everything below is counted from 5,005 live project manager postings, 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: 5,005
Employers: 1,244
Remote: 11%
Typical pay: $89k–179k
Verified live (7d): 4,646

What they ask for

Counted across 956 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

PMP50%
Microsoft Excel28%
Microsoft PowerPoint13%
Atlassian JIRA12%
Microsoft Project10%
Professional Engineer9%
Scrum9%
SAP7%
Enterprise Resource Planning7%
Autodesk AutoCAD7%
Smartsheet7%
Six Sigma6%
Microsoft Outlook6%
Confluence5%

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 & Townsend520
AECOM248
slihrms.wd3.careers96
Cushman & Wakefield76
CORP-Corporate Office63
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.60
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED59
ESE-Jones Lang LaSalle Building Operations Pvt Ltd57
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services50
ProSidian Consulting, LLC49
Swinerton Builders38
HNTB Corporation37

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