Skill · Specialist task · Design & engineering
Tracked since June 2024
Construction estimating in All Australia
Pricing construction work from drawings: quantities, rates and tenders.
Also searched as cost estimating, quantity take-off, takeoffs
Right now
- Entry
- 10.7%27 of 252 ads
- Job ads
- 252job ads in 28 days
Statistics
- Demand252job ads in 28 daysJob ads
- 4-week changeUp+1.6%248 → 252 adsJob ads
- 12-month changeDown−7.5%3,623 → 3,352 adsJob ads
- Entry-level share10.7%27 of 252 adsJob ads
- No PR stated54.8%138 of 252 adsJob ads
- Employers hiring89top 5 post 19.3%Job ads
- Median salary$108k1,475 of 3,352 adsJob ads
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Composition
Roles that ask for Construction estimating
- 22% of Civil Engineer ads mention Construction estimating.
Civil EngineerEngineering & built environment
22% - 8% of Architectural Draftsperson ads mention Construction estimating.
Architectural DraftspersonEngineering & built environment
8%
Co-occurrence
Often asked for together
- Sometimesa common pairing in some roles
- RevitProject management
Location
Where the ads are
- New South Wales99 · 39.3%
- Victoria77 · 30.6%
- Queensland35 · 13.9%
- Western Australia19 · 7.5%
- Australian Capital Territory11 · 4.4%
- South Australia7 · 2.8%
- Tasmania4 · 1.6%
- Northern Territory0 · 0.00%
252 ads in the last four weeks under your filter, by state or country.
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Learning effort
Months
Expect a few months of regular practice, ideally on a real project, before you can use it at work.
Transferability
Narrow
Mostly useful in a small set of roles or one tool ecosystem.
Rising ads don’t mean you should learn this.
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