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Occupation

Research and development chemists

Research and development chemists study chemical compounds. They use this research to create and improve processes and products, from new drugs and medical treatments to manufactured goods such as cosmetics, electrical goods and food and drink.

Based on analysing 838 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 16 skills asked for, of which 3.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £26,000 - £32,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Southern Scotland
Shropshire and Staffordshire
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Tees Valley and Durham
Lancashire

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Manage waste

Found in 35 job ads (13.2%)

Waste management

Found in 19 job ads (7.2%)

Decontamination techniques

Found in 17 job ads (6.4%)

Biosafety in biomedical laboratory

Found in 11 job ads (4.2%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Chemistry

Found in 253 job ads (3.9%)

Communication

Found in 169 job ads (2.6%)

Develop new products

Found in 155 job ads (2.4%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 116 job ads (1.8%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 115 job ads (1.8%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products

Found in 121 job ads (18.0%)

Manufacture of other chemical products

Found in 69 job ads (10.2%)

Manufacture of other organic basic chemicals

Found in 47 job ads (7.0%)

Manufacture of other chemical products

Found in 46 job ads (6.8%)

Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations

Found in 32 job ads (4.7%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.