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Occupation

Ecologists

Ecologists carry out assessments of the health and distribution of organisms, namely people, plants, and animals, and the relationship between organisms and their environment. Ecologists usually have a specialisation area, such as freshwater, marine, terrestrial, fauna, and flora which they conduct research and perform related tasks.

Based on analysing 2581 job ads this job spends 57.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 10 skills asked for, of which 15.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £27,000 - £35,000.

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.

East Wales
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
West Central Scotland
West Midlands

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.

Ecology

Found in 861 job ads (21.4%)

Conduct ecological surveys

Found in 746 job ads (18.5%)

Safeguard biodiversity

Found in 283 job ads (7.0%)

Ensure the safety of endangered species and protected areas

Found in 218 job ads (5.4%)

Assess environmental impact

Found in 194 job ads (4.8%)

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.

Complying with environmental protection laws and standards

Found in 955 job ads (3.6%)

Write work-related reports

Found in 923 job ads (3.5%)

Conduct ecological surveys

Found in 808 job ads (3.0%)

Executing financial transactions

Found in 607 job ads (2.3%)

Project commissioning

Found in 544 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.

Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

Found in 658 job ads (27.8%)

Environmental consulting activities

Found in 414 job ads (17.5%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 209 job ads (8.8%)

Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

Found in 231 job ads (9.8%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 89 job ads (7.1%)
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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.