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Occupation

Materials engineers

Materials engineers research and study the structures and chemical properties of various natural and synthetic or composite materials, including metals, alloys, rubber, ceramics, semiconductors, polymers, and glass. They determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications.

Based on analysing 543 job ads this job spends 21.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 1.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £26,000 - £32,000.

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.

South Yorkshire
Lincolnshire
Devon
North Eastern Scotland
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.

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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.

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 171 job ads (4.7%)

Work independently

Found in 136 job ads (3.7%)

Taking a proactive approach

Found in 130 job ads (3.5%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 110 job ads (3.0%)

Communication

Found in 86 job ads (2.3%)

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 other non-metallic mineral products

Found in 29 job ads (10.3%)

Manufacture of machinery for metallurgy

Found in 29 job ads (10.3%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 22 job ads (7.8%)

Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment

Found in 10 job ads (3.6%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 8 job ads (2.8%)
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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.