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Occupation

Water engineers (professional)

Professional water engineers research and develop methods for the provision of clean water, water treatment and flood damage prevention and reaction. They design sewage systems and networks for the removal and treatment of wastewater from cities and other residential areas. They also design and construct drainage systems for sewers and storm water systems. See also 8134/99 - Water and sewerage plant operatives n.e.c.

Based on analysing 566 job ads this job spends 22.5% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 12 skills asked for, of which 6.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £35,000 - £45,000.

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.

Northern Ireland
Essex
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
South Yorkshire
Highlands and Islands

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.

Design drainage well systems

Found in 111 job ads (35.1%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 49 job ads (15.5%)

Develop flood remediation strategies

Found in 20 job ads (6.3%)

Carry out training in environmental matters

Found in 16 job ads (5.1%)

Conserve water resource

Found in 15 job ads (4.7%)

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.

Identify risk of flooding

Found in 423 job ads (6.2%)

Perform drainage work

Found in 191 job ads (2.8%)

Communication

Found in 119 job ads (1.7%)

Coordinating activities with others

Found in 91 job ads (1.3%)

Risk management

Found in 75 job ads (1.1%)

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.

Construction of water projects

Found in 186 job ads (39.2%)

Civil engineering

Found in 57 job ads (12.0%)

Renting and leasing of water transport equipment

Found in 34 job ads (7.2%)

Water collection, treatment and supply

Found in 17 job ads (5.5%)

Engineering activities and related technical consultancy

Found in 28 job ads (5.9%)
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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.