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Occupation

Boiler operatives

Boiler operatives maintain heating systems such as low-pressure boilers, high-pressure boilers and power boilers. They work mostly in large buildings like power plants or boiler rooms and ensure a safe and environmentally friendly operation of boiler systems.

Based on analysing 220 job ads this job spends 35.2% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 9 skills asked for, of which 4.6% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £36,000 - £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.

Shropshire and Staffordshire
Essex
Cumbria
Surrey, East and West Sussex
North Eastern Scotland

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.

Asbestos removal regulations

Found in 14 job ads (24.1%)

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 boiler

Found in 125 job ads (14.0%)

Repair heating equipment

Found in 38 job ads (4.3%)

Communication

Found in 28 job ads (3.1%)

Maintenance and repair

Found in 23 job ads (2.6%)

Health and safety regulations

Found in 20 job ads (2.2%)

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.

Steam and air conditioning supply

Found in 25 job ads (15.3%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 20 job ads (12.3%)

Manufacture of other pumps and compressors

Found in 20 job ads (12.3%)

Manufacture of central heating radiators and boilers

Found in 15 job ads (9.2%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 10 job ads (6.1%)
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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.