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Occupation

Refuse collectors

Refuse collectors load and remove waste, scrap and recyclables from homes and businesses for disposal or recycling.

Based on analysing 1407 job ads this job spends 40.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 7 skills asked for, of which 11.1% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £20,000 - £20,767.

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
Devon
North Eastern Scotland
East Anglia
East Wales

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.

Collect broken appliances

Found in 98 job ads (11.4%)

Waste management

Found in 74 job ads (8.6%)

Collect industrial waste

Found in 65 job ads (7.6%)

Manage waste

Found in 65 job ads (7.6%)

Discharge of collected waste

Found in 55 job ads (6.4%)

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.

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 288 job ads (3.2%)

Assisting and caring

Found in 249 job ads (2.7%)

Disposing of non-hazardous waste or debris

Found in 239 job ads (2.6%)

Communication

Found in 146 job ads (1.6%)

Collect domestic waste

Found in 133 job ads (1.5%)

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.

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 141 job ads (25.3%)

Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

Found in 113 job ads (20.3%)

Services to buildings and landscape activities

Found in 20 job ads (3.6%)

Activities of employment placement agencies

Found in 14 job ads (3.2%)

Waste collection

Found in 80 job ads (14.4%)
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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.