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Occupation

Business sales executives

Business sales executives provide advice to existing and potential customers, and receive orders for specialist machinery, equipment, materials and other products or services that require technical knowledge.

Based on analysing 60309 job ads this job spends 18.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 0.5% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £25,000 - £30,000.

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.

Greater Manchester
West Central Scotland
West Yorkshire
Cheshire
Hampshire and Isle of Wight

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.

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 573 job ads (19.1%)

Solar energy

Found in 570 job ads (19.0%)

Inform customers environmental protection

Found in 313 job ads (10.4%)

Identify energy needs

Found in 123 job ads (4.1%)

Waste management

Found in 76 job ads (2.5%)

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 26037 job ads (6.2%)

Communication

Found in 17976 job ads (4.2%)

Taking a proactive approach

Found in 9408 job ads (2.2%)

Customer service

Found in 6661 job ads (1.6%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 6599 job ads (1.6%)

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.

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 4415 job ads (10.3%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 3713 job ads (8.6%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 1918 job ads (4.5%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 1563 job ads (3.6%)

Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis

Found in 1327 job ads (3.1%)
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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.