Green Jobs Make Us Poorer
by David Turver 24 August 2025 5:00 PM
I recently published an article that included an update on the cost of green jobs. However, since then more recent data has been published by the ONS. Ed Miliband is still boasting about creating good jobs in clean renewables, so it is worth checking in from time to time to see how much these jobs actually cost the rest of us. The detailed results from the more recent data warrant a standalone article.
How Many Green Jobs are There?
From time to time, the ONS publishes data on the number of green jobs in the economy. The most recent data was published on July 18th 2025 and gives data for 2023.
The total number of green jobs in 2023 is alleged to be 690,900 up from 513,300 in 2015. Of these, 45,200 people were employed in environmental charities, 17,700 in environmental consulting and a staggering 19,400 were employed in “managerial activities of government bodies”. The lanyard class in action.
In the renewable energy sector, the number of full-time equivalent jobs in the UK for offshore wind, onshore wind and solar was 16,400, 5,900 and 20,300, respectively. As shown in Figure 1, the number of jobs in these sectors rose substantially in 2023.
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