Skip to content

Market signals

Brewdex

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

Volatility
0.060.06 (steady below 0.15)
Job ad aggregate
4 wk
Up+1.6%248 → 252 ads
Entry
10.7%27 of 252 ads
  • Demand252job ads in 28 days
    Job ads
  • 4-week changeUp+1.6%248 → 252 ads
    Job ads
  • 12-month changeDown−7.5%3,623 → 3,352 ads
    Job ads
  • Entry-level share10.7%27 of 252 ads
    Job ads
  • No PR stated54.8%138 of 252 ads
    Job ads
  • Employers hiring89top 5 post 19.3%
    Job ads
  • Median salary$108k1,475 of 3,352 ads
    Job ads
4 more measures

Advanced measures are noisier or easier to misread. Open the ⓘ next to each before leaning on it.

  • Skill premium+2.0%+2% vs same roles without it
    Job ads
  • Remote or hybrid38.1%96 of 252 ads
    Job ads
  • Contract share21.8%55 of 252 ads
    Job ads
  • Volatility0.060.06 (steady below 0.15)
    Job ads

Composition

Roles that ask for Construction estimating

  • Civil EngineerEngineering & built environment

    22%
    22% of Civil Engineer ads mention Construction estimating.
  • Architectural DraftspersonEngineering & built environment

    8%
    8% of Architectural Draftsperson ads mention Construction estimating.

Co-occurrence

Often asked for together

Oftenasked for in the same ads most of the time
GISAutoCAD
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.

Before you decide

Demand is only one input

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.

Your interests, the time you have and what people in the work tell you matter more. Effort and transferability are editorial estimates, not measurements.

Next step

Numbers only go so far. Ask someone who uses Construction estimating.