World Energy Employment 2025
About this report
The World Energy Employment (WEE) report series provides comprehensive tracking and analysis of the global energy workforce, including estimates of its size and distribution across regions, sectors, and technologies. It also assesses how energy labour requirements evolve to 2035 across all IEA scenarios.
The WEE 2025 – the fourth edition – examines how skilled labour needs and shortages have changed since the series first highlighted these issues in 2022, and explores their implications for education and training systems, wages, policy, and the global buildout of energy infrastructure. This year’s report introduces, for the first time, detailed occupation-level estimates that offer new insights into the skills and education requirements shaping the energy workforce.
The analysis draws on the IEA’s annual Energy Industry Employment Survey, which gathered responses from more than 700 energy firms, trade unions and educators, providing fresh perspectives on labour dynamics, shortages, and evolving skill needs. The report also includes sectoral deep dives that offer granular analysis of trends across different parts of the energy sector.