The market

What employers ask for, where, and for how much

Soft skills
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Soft skills hidden — they’re everywhere and say little.

On-Site
5434
English
2495
Reporting
2006
Documentation
1943
Excel
1634
CRM
1339
MS Office
1071
SQL
1040
Customer Service
1037
Social Media Marketing
1031
Night Shift
952
Data Analysis
903
APIs
873
Python
817
LinkedIn
735
Data Visualization
723
Digital Marketing
721
Full-Time
717
Accounting
706
Lead Generation
677

Share of 9,352 tracked postings mentioning each skill at least once.

Skill bundles

What goes together

Employers asking for SQL also ask for:

Python
60%together in 625 postings
APIs
49%together in 509 postings
Power BI
42%together in 436 postings
ETL
42%together in 432 postings
Data Visualization
38%together in 393 postings
Data Engineering
36%together in 377 postings
Data Analysis
35%together in 368 postings
Tableau
32%together in 334 postings
Reporting
30%together in 317 postings
A/B Testing
26%together in 272 postings

Strongest pairings

English + On-Site1728
Documentation + On-Site1150
Excel + On-Site971
On-Site + Reporting942
Night Shift + On-Site862

Co-occurrence reflects the current tracked corpus; a single high-volume employer can dominate pairings, see Companies.

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Distinct postings first seen mentioning each skill, by week.

Geography & money

Where, and for how much

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Where the postings are

  1. 01

    Lahore

    0
  2. 02

    Karachi

    0
  3. 03

    Islamabad

    0
  4. 04

    Pk

    0
  5. 05

    Rawalpindi

    0
  6. 06

    Hyderabad

    0
  7. 07

    Karāchi

    0
  8. 08

    Lahore Johar Town

    0
  9. 09

    Karachi Gulshan-E-Iqbal

    0
  10. 10

    Karachi Saddar Gpo

    0

+82 postings listed across all cities.

What it pays, by experience

All tracked postings, market-wide.

Medians, because a single outlier posting can make averages lie.

Entry (0-1 yrs)₨0
Q1 ₨30,500Q3 ₨62,000
Junior (2-3 yrs)₨0
Q1 ₨40,000Q3 ₨90,000
Mid (4-6 yrs)₨0
Q1 ₨60,000Q3 ₨150,000
Senior (7+ yrs)₨0
Q1 ₨73,750Q3 ₨163,750
Unspecified₨0
Q1 ₨30,625Q3 ₨35,000

20 postings priced outside PKR, excluded from these figures. See methodology.

RukhWise

A daily measurement of Pakistan’s job market — postings, skills, and salaries, collected and graded in the open.