BOX 3.1 Trends in green jobs In collaboration with LinkedIn Green jobs, and a workforce with the skills to fill have the highest levels of green skill intensity. them, are essential for meeting climate targets. This is an encouraging sign as it could enable a Drawing on data provided by LinkedIn, this year’s green-skills-led approach to decarbonizing these Future of Jobs Report assesses how employers emissions-intensive industries. This is consistent and employees are responding to the green across the 50 countries included in the analysis, transition. Employers have increased green job with Austria, Germany, Italy, the United States hiring rates, with year-on-year green job growth and Spain leading the way in Manufacturing, while exceeding the overall hiring rate growth every year India, the United States and Finland feature at the since 2019, as shown in Figure B3.1. This has top of the list for Oil and Gas. resulted in sustainability jobs making up three of the top ten fastest growing roles on the LinkedIn With governments playing a key role driving and platform over the last four years, including facilitating the green transition, countries including Sustainability Analysts, Sustainability Specialists, Australia, Argentina, Sweden, the Netherlands and Sustainability Managers. Meanwhile the and the United States are leading green skills proportion of the labour force reporting green skills intensity in Government and the Public Sector. is rising to meet the increased demand, growing This relatively high green skills intensity may enable by almost 40% since 2015, from 9% to 13%. these countries to accelerate their green transition. Industries with lower green skills intensity include Drawing further on LinkedIn’s data, we discover Finance, Technology and Information and Media. that the Manufacturing and Oil and Gas sectors FIGURE B3.1 Growth in annual hiring rates for green jobs Hiring rates for green jobs and the global sample as a fraction of the previous year's hiring rate for that sample. 1 indicates no change. 2.0 1.5 -on-year 1.0 hiring rate 0.5 Indexed year 0 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Green Job Hiring Rate Overall Hiring Rate Source LinkedIn. Analysts, leading to 0.2 million additional jobs. This With many people employed in these roles, this is driven by increased adoption of encryption and growth could lead to 3 million additional jobs for cybersecurity which aligns with findings of the World Vocational Education Teachers and University and 50 Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report that Higher Education Teachers over the 2023-2027 widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity are a period. This growth is particularly prevalent in top 10 global risk in both the short and long term non-G20 countries where it is expected to be about – and yet there is a current global shortage of 3 50% higher than in G20 countries. Limitations in the million cybersecurity professionals. Future of Jobs sample for organizations operating in the Education and Training sector indicate caution should be applied when interpreting these figures. Education jobs Two potential drivers for growth in these roles are: the high rate of adoption of education and workforce development technologies identified in Jobs in the Education industry are expected to Chapter 2 and organizations’ efforts to close skills grow at around 10% during the 2023–2027 period. gaps in their workforces (see Chapter 5). Future of Jobs Report 2023 34