Strong investment in power infrastructure drove a 2.2% increase in global energy employment in 2024, but rising labour shortages now pose a risk to future project delivery, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) ‘World Energy Employment 2025’ report, published on December 5. The report states that energy sector jobs reached 76-million worldwide in 2024, an increase of more than five-million since 2019. Over the past five years, the sector has accounted for 2.4% of all net new jobs created globally. The power sector generated most of this growth, accounting for three-quarters of new positions and overtaking fuel supply as the largest employer in energy.
