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Occupation

Heavy and large goods vehicle drivers

HGV and LGV drivers collect, transport and deliver goods in rigid vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, articulated lorries and lorries pulling trailers.

Based on analysing 27958 job ads this job spends 12.2% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 6 skills asked for, of which 1.1% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £29,250 - £34,000.

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.

Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
Highlands and Islands
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
Outer London - East and North East

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.

Road transport legislation

Found in 299 job ads (12.3%)

Collect broken appliances

Found in 274 job ads (11.3%)

Hazardous materials transportation

Found in 190 job ads (7.8%)

Safety engineering

Found in 156 job ads (6.4%)

Discharge of collected waste

Found in 143 job ads (5.9%)

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 4715 job ads (3.2%)

Loading and unloading goods and, materials

Found in 3955 job ads (2.7%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 3648 job ads (2.5%)

Customer service

Found in 2952 job ads (2.0%)

Complying with legal and organisational guidelines

Found in 2363 job ads (1.6%)

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.

Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 2419 job ads (15.8%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 1808 job ads (11.8%)

Warehousing and support activities for transportation

Found in 1267 job ads (8.3%)

Rental and leasing activities

Found in 1258 job ads (8.2%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 1606 job ads (10.5%)
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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.