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Occupation

Agricultural scientists

Agricultural scientists research and study soil, animals and plants. they aim to improve agricultural processes, the quality of agricultural products or the impact of agricultural processes on the environment. They plan and implement projects such as development projects on behalf of clients or institutions.

Based on analysing 402 job ads this job spends 15.6% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 13 skills asked for, of which 3.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £38,141.

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.

Southern Scotland
Highlands and Islands
Lincolnshire
Cumbria
Eastern Scotland

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.

Agronomy

Found in 25 job ads (19.1%)

Develop agricultural policies

Found in 12 job ads (9.2%)

Organic farming

Found in 12 job ads (9.2%)

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 (3.7%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 74 job ads (3.1%)

Attend to detail

Found in 46 job ads (1.9%)

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 28 job ads (1.2%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 28 job ads (1.2%)

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 64 job ads (19.2%)

Support activities for crop production

Found in 30 job ads (9.0%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 18 job ads (5.4%)

Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals

Found in 17 job ads (5.1%)

Manufacture of food products

Found in 14 job ads (4.2%)
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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.