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Occupation

Cooks

Cooks prepare, season and cook food, often using pre-prepared ingredients, in clubs, private households, fast food outlets, shops selling food cooked on the premises and the catering departments and canteens of other establishments.

Based on analysing 3029 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 11 skills asked for, of which 1.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £20,787 - £21,450.

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
Northern Ireland
Southern Scotland
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

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.

Recognise the hazards of dangerous goods

Found in 70 job ads (12.8%)

Manage habitats

Found in 69 job ads (12.7%)

Develop food waste reduction strategies

Found in 62 job ads (11.4%)

Engage others in environment friendly behaviours

Found in 54 job ads (9.9%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 37 job ads (6.8%)

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.

Preparing food and drinks

Found in 939 job ads (2.9%)

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 746 job ads (2.3%)

Communication

Found in 668 job ads (2.0%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 616 job ads (1.9%)

Use food preparation techniques

Found in 614 job ads (1.9%)

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 food products

Found in 389 job ads (22.1%)

Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Found in 165 job ads (9.4%)

Other food service activities

Found in 149 job ads (8.5%)

Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

Found in 120 job ads (6.8%)

Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled

Found in 96 job ads (5.5%)
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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.