Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a landscape gardener can go next

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

Landscape gardeners plan, construct, renovate and maintain parks, gardens and public green spaces.

Also known as landscaper, landscaping gardener, landscape gardeners.

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 54 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: interior landscaper, 64%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
interior landscaper 64% covered garden labourer 60% covered groundsman/groundswoman 56% covered landscape designer 41% covered countryside officer 33% covered landscape gardener You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from landscape gardener, 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 gardener already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A landscape gardener needs 33 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
  • put up signs handling and moving
  • maintain landscape site handling and moving
  • prepare the ground handling and moving
  • principles of landscape construction engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • build fences constructing
  • transport physical resources within the work area handling and moving
  • landscaping materials agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • maintain ground handling and moving
  • operate landscaping equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prune hedges and trees handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Landscape gardener is filed under Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, ISCO major group 6. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a landscape gardener’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.