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Occupation

Biological laboratory technicians

Biological laboratory technicians support life science professionals and carry out laboratory-based research, analysis and testing. They sample, test, measure, research and analyse in areas such as biology, biotechnology, environmental science, forensic science and pharmacology.

Based on analysing 436 job ads this job spends 2.7% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 11 skills asked for, of which 4.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £28,000 - £32,428.

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
Tees Valley and Durham
Highlands and Islands
Eastern Scotland
West Wales and The Valleys

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.

Perform a feasibility study for building management systems

Found in 34 job ads (25.0%)

Monitor environmental parameters

Found in 20 job ads (14.7%)

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.

Microbiology-bacteriology

Found in 148 job ads (6.1%)

Communication

Found in 66 job ads (2.7%)

Collecting and preparing specimens or materials for testing

Found in 54 job ads (2.2%)

Attend to detail

Found in 49 job ads (2.0%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 41 job ads (1.7%)

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.

Research and experimental development on biotechnology

Found in 61 job ads (20.7%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 36 job ads (12.2%)

Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products

Found in 24 job ads (8.2%)

Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

Found in 23 job ads (7.8%)

Hospital activities

Found in 16 job ads (5.4%)
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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.