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Occupation

Signal workers

Signal workers operate the signals and points on rail tracks to keep trains running safely and on time.

Based on analysing 410 job ads this job spends 0.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 15 skills asked for, of which 1.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £35,000.

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.

Highlands and Islands
Devon
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Southern Scotland
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.

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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 95 job ads (3.2%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 89 job ads (3.0%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 59 job ads (2.0%)

Plan maintenance activities

Found in 58 job ads (2.0%)

Write work-related reports

Found in 41 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.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 32 job ads (11.1%)

Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management And Remediation Activities

Found in 17 job ads (5.9%)

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Found in 16 job ads (5.5%)

Construction of water projects

Found in 16 job ads (5.5%)

Repair and installation of machinery and equipment

Found in 14 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.