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Occupation

Plate welders

Plate welders manually weld plates and structural components. This work involves fabrication, construction or repair of fabricated plate assemblies, extrusions and structural components.

Based on analysing 4342 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 0.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £27,300 - £30,049.

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.

Tees Valley and Durham
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
Southern Scotland
North Eastern 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.

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 114 job ads (39.2%)

Safety engineering

Found in 31 job ads (10.7%)

Follow health and safety procedures in construction

Found in 17 job ads (5.8%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 16 job ads (5.5%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 13 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.

Read engineering drawings

Found in 1473 job ads (5.6%)

Welding techniques

Found in 592 job ads (2.3%)

Operate welding equipment

Found in 587 job ads (2.2%)

Joining parts using soldering, welding or brazing techniques

Found in 566 job ads (2.2%)

Attend to detail

Found in 434 job ads (1.7%)

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 493 job ads (17.2%)

Wholesale of other machinery and equipment

Found in 146 job ads (5.1%)

Manufacture of machinery for textile, apparel and leather production

Found in 141 job ads (4.9%)

Manufacture of other products of first processing of steel

Found in 126 job ads (4.4%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 124 job ads (4.3%)
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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.