Demand Score
Should you build for this job? Every number below is a count of something we collected.
People in this job already buy software for it. 24 well used tools already serve it, so the shelf is crowded. Many different employers hire for it, so you can reach a buyer yourself.
Three components, each capped. How we compute this.
| Component | Score |
|---|---|
| People here already buy software | 32 / 35 |
| Room left on the shelf | 14 / 35 |
| How easy the buyer is to find | 30 / 30 |
Named from live job postings. They already pay a salary to do this work by hand, which makes them the most reachable first buyers.
Taken from 83 records: what employers hiring for this job ask for, ranked by how often they ask. This is the buyer describing the work in their own words, not us describing it.
| Employers ask for | Postings |
|---|---|
| Communication with suppliers | 24 |
| Vendor relationship management | 23 |
| Negotiating purchasing contracts | 21 |
| Vendor relationship building | 20 |
| Purchase order management | 19 |
| Supplier performance analysis | 18 |
| Business | 16 |
| Vendor performance monitoring | 15 |
| Cross-functional communication | 14 |
| Analysis skills | 14 |
| Vendor performance improvement | 11 |
| Materials management in logistics | 11 |
| Contracts | 11 |
| Part sourcing | 10 |
| Job | Employed (US) | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Buyers and Purchasing Agents | 486,900 | $75,650 |
| Purchasing Managers | 81,240 | $139,510 |
Employment and wage figures are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Around 568,140 people hold one of these 2 jobs.
From Capterra, filtered to products specific to this category rather than general business software.
| Tool | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamics 365 | 4.4 | 5,839 |
| ShippingEasy | 4.8 | 1,133 |
| ProcurementExpress.com | 4.7 | 423 |
| Precoro | 4.8 | 255 |
| Spendwise | 4.6 | 236 |
| Procurify | 4.6 | 203 |
| Order.co | 4.5 | 175 |
| Fraxion | 4.4 | 130 |
| Tradogram | 4.5 | 109 |
| eBuyerAssist Platform | 4.9 | 70 |
These are estimates, from Google advertiser data, and they are not part of the score. Everything else on this page is a count of records we collected.
| People searching for procurement software each month | 1,600 |
| What advertisers pay for a click | $71.46 |
| The priciest click we found: procurement software for small business | $55.74 |
Whether the tools above are bad enough to displace. Star ratings cannot answer it: every category we measured averages between 4.25 and 4.71 stars, because vendors ask happy customers for reviews. We would rather say so plainly than guess at it. What we tried.
This one says build, which means the evidence is there. It does not mean it is easy, and it is not a customer. The next step is talking to ten people who hold this job and getting one of them to say yes to paying you.