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Occupation

Foster carers

Foster carers reside with and look after children and young people who are not able to live in their own homes.

Based on analysing 499 job ads this job spends 7.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 9 skills asked for, of which 4.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £18,000 - £22,000.

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.

Southern Scotland
Cumbria
North Eastern Scotland
Devon
West Wales and The Valleys

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.

Inspire enthusiasm for nature

Found in 279 job ads (99.3%)

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.

Assisting and caring

Found in 595 job ads (24.9%)

Deal with uncertainty

Found in 326 job ads (13.6%)

Perceive the context

Found in 315 job ads (13.2%)

Perform services in a flexible manner

Found in 285 job ads (11.9%)

Relate empathetically

Found in 280 job ads (11.7%)

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.

Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled

Found in 44 job ads (57.9%)

Human health activities

Found in 4 job ads (5.3%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 4 job ads (5.3%)

Child day-care activities

Found in 4 job ads (5.3%)

Veterinary activities

Found in 3 job ads (3.9%)
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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.