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Occupation

Laser engineers

Laser engineers design technologies specialising in light information or light energy, such as laser or fibre optics technology.

Based on analysing 106 job ads this job spends 10.3% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 11 skills asked for, of which 0.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £36,000.

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
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
West Midlands
Eastern Scotland
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

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 16 job ads (2.7%)

Operate laser cutting equipment

Found in 15 job ads (2.5%)

Tend cnc laser cutting machine

Found in 14 job ads (2.4%)

Lasers

Found in 13 job ads (2.2%)

Materials science

Found in 12 job ads (2.0%)

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 22 job ads (30.6%)

Manufacture of other machine tools

Found in 7 job ads (9.7%)

Manufacture of optical precision instruments

Found in 5 job ads (6.9%)

Repair and installation of machinery and equipment

Found in 5 job ads (6.9%)

Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment

Found in 4 job ads (5.6%)
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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.