Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a landscape designer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a landscape designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Landscape designers design and create outdoor public areas, landmarks, structures, parks, gardens and private gardens to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.

Also known as landscaper, landscaping designer, garden advisor, garden designer, landscape advisor, landscape consultant.

Professionals 41 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: interior landscaper, 38%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
interior landscaper 38% covered landscape gardener 31% covered curator of horticulture 28% covered landscape architect 25% covered groundsman/groundswoman 23% covered landscape designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from landscape designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a landscape designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A landscape designer needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • perform studies and field investigation information skills
  • inspect project regulations assisting and caring
  • landscape analysis engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • landscape architectural instruments engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • make drawings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise supervisors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create landscape designs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage landscape design projects management skills
  • landscape architecture engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • review construction plans authorisations information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a landscape designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Landscape designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a landscape designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.