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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 1036 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 2.6% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £27,000 - £32,820.

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
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Lancashire
Shropshire and Staffordshire
Cheshire

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.

Waste management

Found in 40 job ads (10.8%)

Manage waste

Found in 37 job ads (10.0%)

Decontamination techniques

Found in 19 job ads (5.1%)

Hazardous waste types

Found in 15 job ads (4.1%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 13 job ads (3.5%)

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.

Communication

Found in 254 job ads (1.8%)

Chemistry

Found in 236 job ads (1.7%)

Develop new products

Found in 236 job ads (1.7%)

Designing industrial materials, systems or products

Found in 176 job ads (1.3%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 168 job ads (1.2%)

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 148 job ads (18.0%)

Manufacture of other chemical products

Found in 83 job ads (10.1%)

Manufacture of other organic basic chemicals

Found in 63 job ads (7.7%)

Manufacture of other chemical products

Found in 57 job ads (6.9%)

Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations

Found in 38 job ads (4.6%)
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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.