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Ocupacions

Carriage driver

Latest available data: June 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

Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

Drivers and mobile plant operators

Locomotive engine drivers and related workers

Locomotive engine drivers

Other occupations of the professional group

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

Locomotive engine drivers

13.532

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

20,65%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

2,31% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

61,98%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

28,45%

Part-time contracts

1,27% Turnover index

4.493

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.

Drivers and mobile plant operators

91%

9%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Drivers and mobile plant operators

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

Locomotive engine drivers and related workers

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?

Locomotive engine drivers

No experience
21%
Less than 1 year
13%
Between 1 and 2 years
5%
Between 2 and 4 years
42%
Between 4 and 8 years
6%
More than 8 years
13%
Manufacturing
45%
Construction
16%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
16%
Administrative and support service activities
7%
Transportation and storage
5%
Others
11%

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.