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Occupation

Medical laboratory technicians

Medical laboratory technicians work under supervision of biomedical scientists to carry out laboratory procedures. They work in the pre-analytical handling of samples such as checking the details of specimens received for analysis, maintaining analysers, loading reagents and packaging specimens. They also perform clerical tasks such as monitoring the stock levels of reagents used in analysis.

Based on analysing 687 job ads this job spends 2.7% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 9 skills asked for, of which 2.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £22,700 - £24,375.

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.

Inner London - West
Northern Ireland
Highlands and Islands
West Wales and The Valleys
North Eastern 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.

Perform a feasibility study for building management systems

Found in 32 job ads (29.1%)

Coordinate shipments of waste materials

Found in 13 job ads (11.8%)

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 124 job ads (2.4%)

Operating scientific and laboratory equipment

Found in 89 job ads (1.7%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 89 job ads (1.7%)

Collecting and preparing specimens or materials for testing

Found in 80 job ads (1.5%)

Monitoring, inspecting and testing equipment, systems and products

Found in 70 job ads (1.3%)

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.

Specialist medical practice activities

Found in 48 job ads (14.8%)

Human health activities

Found in 46 job ads (14.2%)

Hospital activities

Found in 34 job ads (10.5%)

Services to buildings and landscape activities

Found in 34 job ads (10.5%)

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Found in 25 job ads (7.7%)
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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.