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Occupation

Patent engineers

Patent engineers are patent professional who is typically involved in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. They are usually patent professionals with scientific or engineering backgrounds that do not require either attorney or patent agent qualifications, but still work with patent applications. The position involves many of the technical aspects of patent prosecution, including giving technical expertise during invention evaluation.

Based on analysing 366 job ads this job spends 21.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 11 skills asked for, of which 0.1% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £32,000 - £40,000.

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.

London
Inner London - West
East Anglia
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
South Yorkshire

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 89 job ads (4.8%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 55 job ads (3.0%)

Meet deadlines

Found in 51 job ads (2.8%)

Apply for patents

Found in 48 job ads (2.6%)

Attend to detail

Found in 47 job ads (2.5%)

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.

Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities (other than those of barristers and solicitors)

Found in 78 job ads (28.7%)

Solicitors

Found in 41 job ads (15.1%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 33 job ads (12.1%)

Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works

Found in 26 job ads (9.6%)

Barristers at law

Found in 10 job ads (3.7%)
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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.