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Occupation

Environmental scientists

Environmental scientists identify problems and find solutions to minimise environmental hazards. They do this by performing analysison samples such as air, water or soil. They advise on or develop environmental policies that aim to improve water supplies, preservation, and manage waste disposal sites. Environmental scientists perform environmental risk assessments and analyse the environmental impact of new solutions, construction sites or environmental changes ensuring the environmental regulations are followed.

Based on analysing 226 job ads this job spends 28.6% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 16 skills asked for, of which 10.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £25,000 - £30,000.

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.

South Yorkshire
East Anglia
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
West Central Scotland
Essex

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.

Environmental engineering

Found in 38 job ads (10.5%)

Carry out training in environmental matters

Found in 29 job ads (8.0%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 23 job ads (6.4%)

Manage environmental management system

Found in 17 job ads (4.7%)

Environmental legislation

Found in 15 job ads (4.2%)

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 55 job ads (1.7%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 48 job ads (1.5%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 36 job ads (1.1%)

Verifying identities and documentation

Found in 33 job ads (1.0%)

Complying with environmental protection laws and standards

Found in 33 job ads (1.0%)

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.

Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

Found in 14 job ads (8.5%)

Environmental consulting activities

Found in 14 job ads (8.5%)

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Found in 10 job ads (6.1%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 15 job ads (9.1%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 7 job ads (6.0%)
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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.