Writing a project manager resume

Everything below is counted from 5,272 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: 5,272
Employers: 1,303
Remote: 11%
Typical pay: $89k–179k
Verified live (7d): 4,923

What they ask for

Counted across 942 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 Excel30%
Microsoft PowerPoint12%
SAP11%
Atlassian JIRA10%
LinkedIn10%
Microsoft Project9%
Instagram9%
Professional Engineer8%
Scrum7%
Enterprise Resource Planning7%
Microsoft Outlook7%
Autodesk AutoCAD5%
Smartsheet5%

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 & Townsend550
AECOM251
slihrms.wd3.careers100
Cushman & Wakefield80
CORP-Corporate Office63
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.60
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED60
ESE-Jones Lang LaSalle Building Operations Pvt Ltd58
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services50
ProSidian Consulting, LLC49
Swinerton Builders39
JIN Johnson Controls (India) Private Limited39

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