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Occupation

Purchasing administrators

Purchasing administrators provide general administration and customer service support. Their duties include purchasing, pricing, processing of sales, stock control and inventory management.

Based on analysing 8383 job ads this job spends 0.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 17 skills asked for, of which 0.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £22,225 - £25,000.

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.

South Yorkshire
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
West Yorkshire
Shropshire and Staffordshire

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 38 job ads (10.6%)

Apply transportation management concepts

Found in 23 job ads (6.4%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 15 job ads (4.2%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 14 job ads (3.9%)

Coordinate shipments of waste materials

Found in 14 job ads (3.9%)

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.

Attend to detail

Found in 3265 job ads (4.2%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 3133 job ads (4.0%)

Communication

Found in 2999 job ads (3.8%)

Use spreadsheets software

Found in 2714 job ads (3.5%)

Issue purchase orders

Found in 2228 job ads (2.9%)

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.

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 1258 job ads (22.0%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 610 job ads (10.7%)

Activities of employment placement agencies

Found in 316 job ads (5.5%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 226 job ads (3.9%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 193 job ads (3.4%)
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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.