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Occupation

Power systems engineers

Power systems engineers supervise the energy conversion and distribution processes. They analyse the energy supply and consumption efficiency and develop new ways to improve the existing processes. They study the environmental impact of energy use and combine the production of renewable energy in power systems.

Based on analysing 2474 job ads this job spends 10.3% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 1.5% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £40,000 - £50,000.

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.

West Central Scotland
South Yorkshire
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
Tees Valley and Durham

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 40 job ads (8.0%)

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 39 job ads (7.8%)

Safety engineering

Found in 37 job ads (7.4%)

Energy efficiency

Found in 31 job ads (6.2%)

Collaborate on international energy projects

Found in 25 job ads (5.0%)

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.

Electronics and automation

Found in 800 job ads (2.7%)

Programmable logic controller

Found in 777 job ads (2.7%)

Designing electrical or electronic systems or equipment

Found in 533 job ads (1.8%)

Monitoring, inspecting and testing equipment, systems and products

Found in 448 job ads (1.5%)

Communication

Found in 392 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.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 268 job ads (14.6%)

Manufacture of electronic industrial process control equipment

Found in 164 job ads (9.0%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 174 job ads (9.5%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators, transformers and electricity distribution and control apparatus

Found in 69 job ads (3.8%)

Manufacture of electricity distribution and control apparatus

Found in 65 job ads (3.6%)
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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.