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Occupation

Laser operators

Laser operators set up, program and tend laser machines which use lasers to mark, engrave or cut materials.

Based on analysing 266 job ads this job spends 3.2% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 1.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £23,400 - £26,071.

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.

Tees Valley and Durham
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
West Midlands
South Yorkshire
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire

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.

Operate laser cutting equipment

Found in 128 job ads (10.5%)

Read engineering drawings

Found in 83 job ads (6.8%)

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 35 job ads (2.9%)

Tend cnc laser cutting machine

Found in 32 job ads (2.6%)

Operate laser plate maker machine

Found in 29 job ads (2.4%)

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.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 61 job ads (36.7%)

Manufacture of other machine tools

Found in 14 job ads (8.4%)

Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment

Found in 11 job ads (6.6%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 9 job ads (5.4%)

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Found in 8 job ads (4.8%)
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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.