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Occupation

Car/light vehicle technicians

Car/light vehicle technicians specialise on the service and maintenance of light vehicles, mainly cars and vans. They carry out routine vehicle servicing and diagnose and repair faults. Repair work can range from replacing simple parts to solving complex faults using diagnostics equipment.

Based on analysing 572 job ads this job spends 7.9% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 10 skills asked for, of which 1.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £36,000.

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.

Lincolnshire
Cumbria
Kent
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Outer London - East and North East

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 19 job ads (45.2%)

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.

Perform vehicle tests

Found in 110 job ads (4.0%)

Carry out repair of vehicles

Found in 103 job ads (3.7%)

Maintenance and repair

Found in 93 job ads (3.4%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 93 job ads (3.4%)

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 79 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 and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 63 job ads (15.7%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 42 job ads (10.4%)

Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles

Found in 32 job ads (8.0%)

Sale of other motor vehicles

Found in 21 job ads (5.2%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 20 job ads (5.0%)
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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.