CJS advertises thousands of jobs every year - but what type of job and where?
In fact during
2018 we advertised 2584 paid roles and published 572 adverts for voluntary
roles. It's interesting to see where these jobs are based and what they're
doing; so every year we collate the data for some basic analysis to let us see
how the sector is changing and for CJS if we're missing any areas or where we
should target our efforts in attracting new advertisers.
Last year there was a slight change to the job numbers, it
was the first time we didn't publish the CJS Digest every week - that's jobs
advertised elsewhere. However, that doesn't seem to had an effect on the range
of type of jobs: countryside rangers and officers of course form the majority of
vacancies although ecology work is increasing every year, education and interpretation
remains an important area. It's good to
see an increased proportion of student placements and apprenticeships too.
The one big change that we noticed was a difference in the
types of contracts offered with over 40% specifying a contract length.
Additionally we noticed a jump in the proportion of jobs that were detailed as
temporary or fixed term (not seasonal) at just over a third. There were also
enough casual posts for us to record them separately as well, 61 vacancies and
2% of the jobs were only available on a self-employed / freelance basis. When we first started keeping these records
both of these were unheard of neither were zero hours contracts (11 vacancies
this year). However, the regional
distribution of vacancies remains reasonable constant with the majority in
England but fractionally more in Scotland this year than last.
You can see the basic details on these pages:
- Job types - categorised along similar lines to the job advert pages but more detailed
- Regional distribution - again along the same lines as job advert pages
- Contract type and length.