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Occupation

Town planning officers

Town planning officers create development plans for land and towns, urban areas, cities, and regions. They research the needs of the community or the region (economic, social, transport) and evaluate other parameters such as sustainability to present solid programs aimed at the improvement of the site.

Based on analysing 3116 job ads this job spends 32.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 12 skills asked for, of which 1.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £40,000.

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.

East Wales
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
North Yorkshire
Devon
West Central 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.

Urban planning law

Found in 99 job ads (16.5%)

Develop management plans

Found in 71 job ads (11.8%)

Ecology

Found in 38 job ads (6.3%)

Assess environmental impact

Found in 33 job ads (5.5%)

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 27 job ads (4.5%)

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.

Perform planning

Found in 1555 job ads (8.8%)

Communication

Found in 633 job ads (3.6%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 561 job ads (3.2%)

Write work-related reports

Found in 276 job ads (1.6%)

Civil engineering

Found in 257 job ads (1.4%)

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.

Specialised construction activities

Found in 595 job ads (23.5%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 374 job ads (14.8%)

Management consultancy activities (other than financial management)

Found in 353 job ads (13.9%)

Development of building projects

Found in 320 job ads (12.6%)

Civil engineering

Found in 121 job ads (4.8%)
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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.