Cataleg D ocupacions capçalera

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Ocupacions

Urban planner

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
City planner Country planner Regional planner Smart city planner Town planner Urban planner Urban planning engineer

Urban planners create development plans for towns, urban areas, cities, and regions. They research the needs of the community or the region (economic, social, transport) and evaluate other parameters such as sustainability in order to present solid programs aimed at the improvement of the site.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Planning layout and coordinating development of urban areas;
(b) Compiling and analysing data on economic, legal, political, cultural, demographic, sociological, physical and environmental factors affecting land use;
(c) Conferring with government authorities, communities and specialists in fields such as architecture, planning, social science the environment and the law;
(d) Devising and recommending use and development of land, and presenting narrative and graphic plans, programmes and designs to groups and individuals;
(e) Advising governments, companies and communities on urban and regional planning issues and proposals;
(f) Reviewing and evaluating environmental impact reports;
(g) Planning and coordinating the development of land areas for parks, schools, institutions, airports, roadways and related projects, and for commercial, industrial and residential sites;
(h) Planning and advising on routing and control of road traffic and public transportation systems for efficiency and safety.

Knowledge

  • Architecture and town planning
  • Database and network design and administration
  • Management and administration
  • Software and applications development and analysis
  • Building and civil engineering

Digital competencies

  • Conducting academic or market research
  • Technical or academic writing
  • Developing professional relationships or networks
  • Designing structures or facilities
  • Advising and consulting

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data
  • Using digital tools for collaboration and productivity
  • Programming computer systems
  • Designing ict systems or applications
  • Using computer aided design and drawing tools

Personal competencies

  • Supporting others
  • Taking a proactive approach

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Science and engineering professionals

Architects, planners, surveyors and designers

Town and traffic planners

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Town and traffic planners

427

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

52,52%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-8,60% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

91,65%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,76%

Part-time contracts

1,04% Turnover index

75

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

11%

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.

Science and engineering professionals

59%

41%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering professionals

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

Architects, planners, surveyors and designers

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?

Town and traffic planners

No experience
7%
Less than 1 year
49%
Between 1 and 2 years
7%
Between 2 and 4 years
18%
Between 4 and 8 years
3%
More than 8 years
16%
Activitats professionals, científiques i tècniques
35%
Activitats administratives i serveis auxiliars
24%
Informació i comunicacions
10%
Transport i emmagatzematge
6%
Altres serveis
5%
Altres
20%

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.