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Occupation

Political scientists

Political scientists study topics such as political systems, decision-making processes, political behaviour, political trends, society, and power perspectives. They advise governments and institutional organisations on governance matters.

Based on analysing 110 job ads this job spends 12.9% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 17 skills asked for, of which 0.4% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £31,200 - £36,747.

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.

London
Tees Valley and Durham
Merseyside
West Midlands
Outer London - South

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 26 job ads (3.3%)

Conducting investigations

Found in 17 job ads (2.2%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 15 job ads (1.9%)

Scientific research methodology

Found in 15 job ads (1.9%)

Writing techniques

Found in 15 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.

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 11 job ads (17.7%)

Activities of employment placement agencies

Found in 7 job ads (11.3%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 6 job ads (9.7%)

Business and other management consultancy activities

Found in 4 job ads (6.5%)

Land transport and transport via pipelines

Found in 2 job ads (3.2%)
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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.