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Occupation

Groundworkers

Groundworkers prepare construction sites for building work by digging out and levelling the ground and laying concrete foundations, installing pipes and drainage and building paths, roads and driveways.

Based on analysing 2889 job ads this job spends 7.5% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 4 skills asked for, of which 1.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £31,200 - £35,100.

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.

North Eastern Scotland
Southern Scotland
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Highlands and Islands
Kent

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 13 job ads (16.5%)

Design drainage well systems

Found in 12 job ads (15.2%)

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 149 job ads (3.7%)

Use safety equipment in construction

Found in 132 job ads (3.2%)

Health and safety regulations

Found in 110 job ads (2.7%)

Act reliably

Found in 102 job ads (2.5%)

Perform drainage work

Found in 102 job ads (2.5%)

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.

Specialised construction activities

Found in 569 job ads (38.6%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 101 job ads (6.8%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 101 job ads (6.8%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 67 job ads (4.5%)

Site preparation

Found in 66 job ads (4.5%)
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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.