Green-skilled workers hired at 1.5x the overall rate, LinkedIn data shows – PPC Land

LinkedIn on October 22, 2026 published its Global Green Skills Report 2026, a 39-page study built on its own member profile and hiring data, which finds that workers holding green skills are being hired at a rate 52.7% higher than the overall workforce. The company rounds that figure to “1.5x the rate of the wider workforce” in the announcement that accompanied the report on its newsroom, published ahead of the COP31 climate conference. The headline sits on top of a supply problem. According to LinkedIn, the share of green hiring grew 25% year-on-year, while the share of green talent in the workforce grew 13%. Demand is rising roughly twice as fast as supply, and the report says that across every industry it examined, the rate of green hiring exceeded the concentration of green talent. In Short LinkedIn looked at the profiles of its members and found that people who list skills such as energy management, waste reduction or carbon accounting get hired about one and a half times as often as everyone else. Companies want these workers faster than the pool of them is growing, and most of the hiring now happens in ordinary jobs like finance, operations and technology
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