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Occupation

Architects

Architects create designs for new construction projects, alterations and redevelopments. They use their specialist construction knowledge and high-level drawing skills to design buildings that are functional, safe, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing. Architects stay involved throughout the construction process, adapting their plans according to budget constraints, environmental factors and client needs.

Based on analysing 2594 job ads this job spends 23.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 13 skills asked for, of which 0.9% 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.

West Central Scotland
Lincolnshire
Greater Manchester
North Yorkshire
Cumbria

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.

Urban planning law

Found in 59 job ads (24.5%)

Integrated design

Found in 21 job ads (8.7%)

Shift energy demands

Found in 15 job ads (6.2%)

Develop management plans

Found in 14 job ads (5.8%)

Advise on nature conservation

Found in 12 job ads (5.0%)

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 624 job ads (3.8%)

Create autocad drawings

Found in 602 job ads (3.6%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 547 job ads (3.3%)

Building codes

Found in 430 job ads (2.6%)

Project commissioning

Found in 311 job ads (1.9%)

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.

Architectural activities

Found in 515 job ads (23.8%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 375 job ads (17.3%)

Building completion and finishing

Found in 219 job ads (10.1%)

Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy

Found in 171 job ads (7.9%)

Construction of residential and non-residential buildings

Found in 162 job ads (7.5%)
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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.