Civil Engineering Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Civil Engineering Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Civil Engineering role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Civil Engineering job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 70% of Civil Engineering job descriptions contained civil engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

civil engineering
70%
construction
60%
civils
40%
estimating
40%
estimator
30%
birmingham
30%
geotechnical
30%
hybrid
30%
chesterfield
30%
engineer
30%
engineering
20%
marine
20%
slope stabilisation
20%
nottingham
20%
design
20%
structural
20%
structures
20%
groundworks
20%
civil
20%
derby
20%
derbyshire
20%
civil engineer
10%
atherstone
10%
long eaton
10%
loughborough
10%
marine engineer
10%
structural engineer
10%
coventry
10%
dartford
10%
project
10%
coast
10%
kent
10%
coastal
10%
earthworks
10%
maidstone
10%
aston
10%
degree
10%
environmental
10%
northfleet
10%
cad
10%
graduate
10%
geology
10%
cad designer
10%
height
10%
geotechnical engineer
10%
chartered engineer
10%
cad engineer
10%
travel
10%
private sector
10%
cad technician
10%
underwater
10%
warwickshire
10%
project delivery
10%
design engineer
10%
burton upon trent
10%
account manager
10%
business development manager
10%
sales manager
10%
assistant engineer
10%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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