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Learned from 9 real résumés in this field.

Across 9 real U.S. résumés in self-employed, the most distinctive skills are Microsoft Windows 7, System Auditing and Network Mapping — each far more common in this field than across all résumés. This is the real skill fingerprint, learned from résumés, not a job description.

Self-Employed is a field, not a single job title — these are the skills that show up across the work inside it.

Microsoft Windows 7
33% have it · 1706.9× vs average
System Auditing
33% have it · 1544.4× vs average
Network Mapping
33% have it · 982.8× vs average

Based on Futureful's analysis of 102,822 U.S. résumés (2026).

Skill fingerprint

ranked by distinctiveness

The skills that most define this role, more common here than across all résumés. The bar shows how distinctive; the % is how many people in the role have it.

microsoft windows 7
1706.9×
33% · N=3
system auditing
1544.4×
33% · N=3
network mapping
982.8×
33% · N=3
community engagement
926.6×
33% · N=3
microsoft sql server 2012
705.0×
33% · N=3
system backups
405.4×
33% · N=3
ms exchange
372.8×
33% · N=3
contingency planning
190.8×
33% · N=3
information assurance
91.6×
33% · N=3
sql server 2012
78.5×
33% · N=3
patch management
61.8×
33% · N=3
t-sql
43.8×
33% · N=3
visual studio
38.9×
33% · N=3
network troubleshooting
31.8×
33% · N=3

Where people go next

Real onward moves from dated work history.

Not enough dated career history yet to show real next moves for this role.

We show honest gaps instead of guessing.

Where people come from

The roles that feed into this one.

Not enough dated career history yet to show feeder roles.

We show honest gaps instead of guessing.

Common questions

Straight answers, every one backed by the real counts on this page.

What skills show up in Self-Employed?

In 9 real résumés in this field, the most defining skills are Microsoft Windows 7 (33% have it), System Auditing (33% have it), Network Mapping (33% have it), Community Engagement (33% have it), Microsoft Sql Server 2012 (33% have it). These are the skills that separate this field from the rest of the workforce.

What do people working in Self-Employed move on to next?

Not enough dated career history exists yet for this role to show real next moves, so we say so rather than invent a path.

What roles lead into Self-Employed?

Not enough dated career history exists yet to show which roles feed into this one, so we show an honest empty state.

Does this page show Self-Employed salary?

No. Résumés do not carry pay, so Futureful holds no compensation data for this field and never invents a dollar figure. Every statistic here is a skill or career-move count backed by real résumés.

Where does this data come from?

The Futureful Career Atlas is built from 102,822 real US résumés, aggregated with no personal data. 9 of them are Self-Employed résumés. Every number on this page is a count of real people, and thin pages are kept out of search. Full method: futureful.app/careers/methodology.

Every figure on this page is a real count over real résumés (N = résumés behind it). No salary is shown, we hold no compensation data, so every claim is a skill or frequency truth, never a dollar promise. How we count · Explore more roles

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