A total of 2.3% of all opportunities advertised in the energy sector in Scotland throughout 2021 were classed as ‘green jobs’, compared with the UK average of 1.6%.
This is according to PwC research, which also highlights a UK-wide shortage of skilled labour - with a green energy skills gap of around 200,000 people - that cannot be addressed from the existing UK energy sector workforce alone.
While the firm's original Green Jobs Barometer warned that Scotland would be most impacted by the loss of ‘sunset jobs’ to the green transition (9.4% by 2030, compared with the UK average of 8.3%), the latest paper highlights that the majority of jobs forecast to be created in order to facilitate the transition to green energy via offshore wind and nuclear will be primarily based north of the border – in particular across the north east.
