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Occupation

Quantity surveyors

Quantity surveyors advise on financial and contractual matters relating to, and prepare bills of quantities for, construction projects and provide other support functions concerning the financing and materials required for building projects.

Based on analysing 15062 job ads this job spends 28.9% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 12 skills asked for, of which 0.6% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £45,000 - £55,000.

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.

Devon
West Central Scotland
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Inner London - East
Outer London - East and North East

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.

Promote innovative infrastructure design

Found in 150 job ads (18.0%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 65 job ads (7.8%)

Follow health and safety procedures in construction

Found in 46 job ads (5.5%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 38 job ads (4.6%)

Collaborate on international energy projects

Found in 34 job ads (4.1%)

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.

Cost management

Found in 2658 job ads (3.3%)

Communication

Found in 2655 job ads (3.3%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 2023 job ads (2.5%)

Attend to detail

Found in 1475 job ads (1.8%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 1377 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.

Quantity surveying activities

Found in 8625 job ads (67.3%)

Construction of residential and non-residential buildings

Found in 505 job ads (3.9%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 361 job ads (2.8%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 309 job ads (2.4%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 308 job ads (2.4%)
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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.