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Occupation

Plumbers and heating and ventilation installers and repairers

Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers assemble, install, maintain and repair plumbing fixtures, heating and ventilating systems and pipes and pipeline systems in commercial, residential and industrial premises and public buildings for non-renewable and renewable energy. See also 2129/07- Gas engineers (professional) and 2129/08 - Heating and ventilating engineers (professional)

Based on analysing 18456 job ads this job spends 35.6% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 2.5% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £35,000 - £40,000.

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.

Highlands and Islands
North Eastern Scotland
Outer London - South
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Southern Scotland

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 239 job ads (8.3%)

Domestic heating systems

Found in 234 job ads (8.1%)

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 206 job ads (7.2%)

Types of heat pumps

Found in 134 job ads (4.7%)

Design biomass installations

Found in 124 job ads (4.3%)

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.

Plumbing tools

Found in 2890 job ads (4.3%)

Communication

Found in 1906 job ads (2.8%)

Customer service

Found in 1884 job ads (2.8%)

Maintenance and repair

Found in 1806 job ads (2.7%)

Operate boiler

Found in 1578 job ads (2.3%)

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 machinery and equipment

Found in 1775 job ads (12.6%)

Trade of gas through mains

Found in 992 job ads (7.0%)

Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation

Found in 956 job ads (6.8%)

Manufacture of other pumps and compressors

Found in 891 job ads (6.3%)

Manufacture of gas

Found in 833 job ads (5.9%)
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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.