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Occupation

Software developers

Software developers design, program, build, deploy and maintain software using many different skills and tools. They also help build software systems that power networks and devices and ensure that those systems remain functional

Based on analysing 102654 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 17 skills asked for, of which 0.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £45,000 - £60,000.

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.

Northern Ireland
London
Greater Manchester
West Central Scotland
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.

Promote innovative infrastructure design

Found in 480 job ads (13.5%)

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 220 job ads (6.2%)

Manage habitats

Found in 217 job ads (6.1%)

Engage others in environment friendly behaviours

Found in 198 job ads (5.6%)

Safety engineering

Found in 192 job ads (5.4%)

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.

Software and applications development and analysis

Found in 65435 job ads (5.0%)

Javascript

Found in 33483 job ads (2.5%)

Cloud technologies

Found in 26054 job ads (2.0%)

Database and network design and administration

Found in 21054 job ads (1.6%)

Use scripting programming

Found in 19063 job ads (1.4%)

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 5989 job ads (8.9%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 5681 job ads (8.5%)

Business and domestic software development

Found in 4903 job ads (7.3%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 4473 job ads (6.7%)

Software publishing

Found in 3339 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.