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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 4579 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 1.9% 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
Devon
North Yorkshire
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 240 job ads (23.1%)

Develop management plans

Found in 106 job ads (10.2%)

Assess environmental impact

Found in 59 job ads (5.7%)

Ecology

Found in 59 job ads (5.7%)

Promote innovative infrastructure design

Found in 37 job ads (3.6%)

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 2298 job ads (4.7%)

Communication

Found in 1184 job ads (2.4%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 1136 job ads (2.3%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 1115 job ads (2.3%)

Law

Found in 706 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.

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 557 job ads (14.8%)

Management consultancy activities (other than financial management)

Found in 565 job ads (15.0%)

Development of building projects

Found in 519 job ads (13.8%)

Civil engineering

Found in 189 job ads (5.0%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 847 job ads (22.5%)
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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.