UK sees surge in the demand for green skills despite overall job market decline – PwC Green Jobs Barometer

The latest PwC Green Jobs Barometer reveals a surge in green job adverts across the UK, reflecting a growing demand for green skills despite a 22.5% contraction in the overall job market. Now in its fourth year, the Barometer tracks the movement in green jobs creation, job loss, carbon intensity of employment, and worker sentiment across regions and sectors. It finds that the share of green job adverts as a proportion of total job adverts increased to 3.3% in 2024 – up from 2.3% in 2023 – adding nearly 23,000…

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Green job adverts fall by 26%, but are slightly more resilient than other roles in a cooling labour market

The number of green jobs advertised in the UK has fallen from the record levels recorded in 2022, albeit at a smaller rate than the decline seen in the UK’s job market overall, finds PwC’s latest Green Jobs Barometer.  High interest rates and a challenging economic backdrop have seen the number of total advertised roles fall by 29%, while the number of green jobs fell by 26%. This degree of resilience of green jobs has seen their share of the UK labour market increase to 2.3% (up from 2.2% in…

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PwC UK and Sky Media launch ‘Better Solved Together’ series highlighting collaboration in business

PwC UK and Sky Media have launched ‘Better Solved Together’ – a content series featuring frank discussions from business leaders and experts on the lessons businesses can learn from some unexpected places, including space, nature, entertainment, sport and health and fitness. The series aims to promote collaboration and innovation and encourage businesses to look at challenges such as net zero, risk, deal-making, growth and workforce disruption in new ways. The content series will be promoted across Sky News with a TV media campaign driving audiences to the content on the…

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