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Ocupacions

Carriage driver

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Carriage driver Coachman Coachwoman Fiacre driver Horse-drawn carriage driver Horse-drawn fiacre driver Horse-drawn hackney carriage driver

Carriage drivers tranport passengers in horse-drawn carriages. They ensure passengers' safety and care for the horses.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Harnessing animals and hitching them to vehicles or machinery;
(b) Loading or unloading goods, or assisting passengers in getting on or off a vehicle;
(c) Driving animals in the desired direction with due regard to other traffic and traffic regulations;
(d) Collecting fares or charges;
(e) Driving animals to haul wagons in mines or quarries;
(f) Driving animals hitched to farm or other machinery;
(g) Driving working elephants;
(h) Maintaining vehicle or machinery, making minor repairs and installing replacement parts;
(i) Grooming and feeding animals.

Knowledge

  • Law
  • Veterinary

Digital competencies

  • Moving and herding animals
  • Accompanying and welcoming people
  • Feeding and grooming animals
  • Providing general assistance to people
  • Ensuring compliance with legislation

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Elementary occupations

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

Transport and storage labourers

Drivers of animal-drawn vehicles and machinery

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Drivers of animal-drawn vehicles and machinery

13.615

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

20,97%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-3,65% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

61,72%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

28,35%

Part-time contracts

1,27% Turnover index

4.514

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-2%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

79%

21%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Transport and storage labourers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Drivers of animal-drawn vehicles and machinery

No experience
20%
Less than 1 year
11%
Between 1 and 2 years
9%
Between 2 and 4 years
38%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
18%
Manufacturing
27%
Transportation and storage
19%
Education
13%
Construction
11%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
11%
Others
19%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

Occupations that share knowledge and skills

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.