Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Operations: 22,944 open roles, 2,246 entry level.
Keeping an organisation running — programs, projects, logistics, administration and business operations.
12,754 of these postings state no level; the entry-level count is over the ones that do, plus any that ask for a year or less and are not titled senior. Pay is the median of posted bands, in USD, only where eight or more roles posted one; 3 posted figures that could not be a year's pay were left out. Only open roles are counted.
The roles, as the postings name them
Open roles and posted pay by role.
| Role | Open roles | Median posted band |
|---|---|---|
| Project Manager | 1,733 | $132K |
| Manager | 681 | $154K |
| Program Manager | 600 | $157K |
| Director | 491 | $215K |
| Operations Associate | 477 | $43K |
| Consultant | 439 | $121K |
| Business Analyst | 425 | $115K |
| Operations Manager | 422 | $96K |
| Project Coordinator | 229 | $67K |
| Supervisor | 159 | $87K |
| Associate | 158 | $108K |
| Assistant Project Manager | 143 | $99K |
What each pays, on its own page: Project Manager, Program Manager, Operations Associate, Business Analyst, Operations Manager, Project Coordinator, Assistant Project Manager, Operations Supervisor, Technical Project Manager, Construction Project Manager, Program Coordinator, Operations Coordinator.
A role is the posting’s own title with its level, shift and schedule set aside, so “Registered Nurse – ICU (Nights)” and “Senior Registered Nurse” are one role. The twelve most posted; pay is the median of posted bands, where eight or more roles posted one.
The skills, as the postings name them
What the postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management | 7,002 | 14% |
| Continuous Improvement | 5,059 | 17% |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 4,323 | 27% |
| Customer Service | 4,166 | 37% |
| Procurement | 2,763 | 6% |
| Program Management | 2,679 | 3% |
| Risk Management | 2,513 | 5% |
| Supply Chain Coordination | 2,497 | 10% |
| Presentation Software | 2,067 | 12% |
| Change Management | 1,868 | 3% |
| Stakeholder Management | 1,801 | 2% |
| Investigation | 1,612 | 5% |
A count of open postings naming each skill, the twelve most named; “at entry” is the share of the 2,246 entry-level postings that name it. Never a trend, never a score of you. Which of these you already have, and what you would learn first, is on your CareerVersion.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERN | 479 | $58K | $48K–$69K |
| JUNIOR | 1,238 | $73K | $55K–$99K |
| MID | 253 | $105K | $69K–$130K |
| SENIOR | 2,827 | $137K | $114K–$161K |
| STAFF | 790 | $87K | $69K–$133K |
| PRINCIPAL | 389 | $168K | $140K–$194K |
| MANAGEMENT | 4,214 | $156K | $112K–$199K |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band; the middle half is the twenty-fifth to seventy-fifth percentile of those bands.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Turner & Townsend | 785 | 14 |
| Indie Campers | 541 | 133 |
| Carvana | 358 | 3 |
| A.P. Moller - Maersk | 305 | 45 |
| ALO | 274 | 210 |
| Paloaltonetworks | 254 | — |
| Veeva Systems | 184 | 38 |
| Guidehouse | 176 | 8 |
| Lifetime | 166 | 6 |
| Crate & Barrel | CB2 | 163 | 158 |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The twelve with the most open roles in this career tonight; “entry level” is how many of those ask for no prior experience.
Where the work is
7% of open operations roles are remote.
- Remote7%1,717 roles
- Hybrid5%1,050 roles
- On site68%15,708 roles
- Not stated19%4,469 roles
As the boards state it. Nothing in the postings supports a city-level figure, so none is given.
How this was counted
Every figure here is counted from 22,944 open postings read from 2,136 employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model: a level shows a median only where eight or more postings carried one, and 8,151 of these postings did. 3 posted bands whose midpoint could not be a year's pay in US dollars were left out of every figure. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so one role is one row. The same counts as Markdown are at facts.md.
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Counted October 17, 2026 from 22,944 open postings; refreshed nightly. Facts as Markdown: facts.md.