Construction skill
Cost Estimating jobs
Pricing work from drawings: quantities, rates, and contingency. The skill that decides whether a project proceeds. Below: the 8 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Cost Estimating unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Project Manager | 600 | salary |
| Solutions Architect | 600 | salary |
| Software Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Construction Manager | 409 | salary |
| Financial Analyst | 392 | salary |
| Construction Estimator | 351 | salary |
| Civil Engineer | 252 | salary |
| Mechanical Engineer | 230 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Cost Estimating.
- Spec Writingtogether in 12
- Construction Documentationtogether in 4
- Project Managementtogether in 7
- Observabilitytogether in 4
Quick answers
What is Cost Estimating?
Pricing work from drawings: quantities, rates, and contingency. The skill that decides whether a project proceeds. On our board Cost Estimating counts as a construction skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Cost Estimating?
Quite a few. Right now 3,434 open roles on our board sit in the 8 occupations where Cost Estimating shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Project Manager, with 600 open roles today.
What skills pair with Cost Estimating?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Cost Estimating are Spec Writing (together in 12), Construction Documentation (together in 4), Project Management (together in 7).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.