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Occupation

Plate welders

Plate welders manually weld plates and structural components. This work involves fabrication, construction or repair of fabricated plate assemblies, extrusions and structural components.

Based on analysing 3247 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 1.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £25,350 - £29,250.

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
Southern Scotland
Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
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.

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 71 job ads (40.3%)

Safety engineering

Found in 20 job ads (11.4%)

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.

Welding techniques

Found in 1281 job ads (9.1%)

Read engineering drawings

Found in 1259 job ads (8.9%)

Operate welding equipment

Found in 1116 job ads (7.9%)

Join metals

Found in 606 job ads (4.3%)

Attend to detail

Found in 355 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.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 387 job ads (17.8%)

Wholesale of other machinery and equipment

Found in 116 job ads (5.3%)

Manufacture of machinery for textile, apparel and leather production

Found in 110 job ads (5.1%)

Manufacture of other products of first processing of steel

Found in 97 job ads (4.5%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 88 job ads (4.0%)
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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.