Project Engineer Skills and Job Description (September 2026)

Project Management is asked for by 30% of Project Engineer employers, the most common requirement across 300 live postings read in September 2026. Then Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Professional Engineer.

Median posted pay is $111,406, most postings between $88,750 and $130,545 — from 171 postings that disclosed it, across 86 companies.

Posted pay is up 14.3% since 2026-09-07 ($97,500 → $111,406).

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These are ranges employers published in their own job postings — not salaries people typed into a form years ago.

What Project Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 300 posting descriptions mention them.

Project Management 30%
Construction Management 25%
Civil Engineering 16%
Professional Engineer 14%
Electrical Engineering 13%
PMP 12%
Bachelor's Degree In Engineering 9%
Mechanical Engineering 8%
Project Controls 6%
Risk Management 6%
Work Environment 5%
Product Development 4%
Project Management Tools 4%
Project Execution 4%
Project Planning 4%
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification 4%
Capital Projects 4%
Construction Industry 4%
Civil 3D 4%
Engineering Drawings 4%
AutoCAD Civil 3D 4%

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15 companies in this sample have Project Engineer postings open right now.

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What Project Engineers earn

10th $75K 25th $89K median $111K 75th $131K 90th $156K
$72K $179K

Each bar is a pay band. Height is how many of the 86 employers who published a salary fall in it, counted once each.

Pay bands in numbers
Employer median pay by band
Pay band Employers
$72,500–$83,149 15
$83,149–$93,798 12
$93,798–$104,447 10
$104,447–$115,096 8
$115,096–$125,745 14
$125,745–$136,394 13
$136,394–$147,043 3
$147,043–$157,692 3
$157,692–$168,341 3
$168,341–$178,991 5
Total 86

Project Engineer vs adjacent roles

Roles people compare this one against, taken from what they search.

  • project manager
  • field engineer
  • assistant project manager
  • project manager construction
  • design engineer
  • project coordinator

Who is hiring Project Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

Olsson
$132,500 5
Pond & Company
$127,500 51
Capgemini
$115,227 3
Capgemini Engineering
$115,227 3
Ramboll
$110,500 6
EnSafe Inc.
$110,000 3
Core States Group
$110,000 3
Galloway & Company
$107,000 4
Schnabel
$100,000 3
Gilbane
$97,500 4

Also hiring: ABB, Honeywell Aerospace, Balfour Beatty, Heapy Engineering, Inc., Granite Construction, WSP.

Remote vs onsite pay

Median of remote-eligible postings against the rest.

Remote-eligible
$127,500
Onsite
$100,863

85 remote-eligible postings against 94 onsite. Remote pays 26.4% more in this sample.

Pay by experience level

Level is taken from the posting title, so only postings that state one are counted.

Senior
$119,355 14
Lead / Manager
$127,500 78

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

Atlanta, GA
$115,227 9
Remote, US
$94,000 5
Seattle, WA
$119,104 4
Columbus, OH
$127,500 3
Denver, CO
$130,000 3
Baltimore, MD
$125,000 3
Albany, NY
$97,500 3
Phoenix, AZ
$127,500 3
Greenwood Village, CO
$107,000 3
Edwardsville, IL
$53,040 3

Where this data comes from

  • 300 live postings analysed
  • 171 (57%) published a salary range
  • 143 (48%) were remote-eligible
  • 135 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 300 full posting descriptions
  • Each employer gets one vote in the median, so a company running a large hiring campaign cannot move it
  • Ranges are converted to annual figures; hourly and contract postings are normalised before comparison

How the requirements were read

Requirements are not keyword counts. Each posting is read by our extraction engine, which works out what the employer is actually asking for and separates a requirement from a section heading or a line of boilerplate. Two postings asking for the same thing in different words are counted once, because our skills graph knows which phrasings mean the same thing and which imply others.

The share beside each requirement is the percentage of distinct EMPLOYERS in that sample who asked for it, counted one vote per company so a firm posting the same role many times cannot inflate its own requirements. Measured, not estimated, and read from the posting text rather than counted as keywords.

Because every reading is dated, the movement figures above are real month-over-month change. Sites built on self-reported salaries cannot produce that number: their data has no posting date.