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Occupation

Solar panel installers

Solar panel installers install and maintain systems that collect solar energy. They prepare the necessary fixtures, often on roofs, install solar panels and plug them into an electronic system including an inverter to connect the solar energy systems to the electricity lines.

Based on analysing 219 job ads this job spends 6.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 19.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £34,500 - £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.

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cumbria
Essex
Devon
East Anglia

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.

Install photovoltaic systems

Found in 67 job ads (26.7%)

Mount photovoltaic panels

Found in 36 job ads (14.3%)

Solar energy

Found in 36 job ads (14.3%)

Maintain photovoltaic systems

Found in 24 job ads (9.6%)

Maintain solar energy systems

Found in 16 job ads (6.4%)

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.

Communication

Found in 44 job ads (6.7%)

Customer service

Found in 21 job ads (3.2%)

Customer insight

Found in 21 job ads (3.2%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 18 job ads (2.7%)

Work in an organised manner

Found in 14 job ads (2.1%)

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.

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Found in 21 job ads (12.2%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 17 job ads (9.9%)

Manufacture of electrical equipment

Found in 16 job ads (9.3%)

Rental and leasing activities

Found in 16 job ads (9.3%)

Roofing activities

Found in 11 job ads (6.4%)
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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.