About

About Solar

Discover solar

About SolarPower Europe

Our story Team Organisation Careers 40 Years Around the Sun
Interests

Workstreams

Manufacturing Land Use & Permitting Product Sustainability Supply Chain Sustainability Grids & Flexibility Markets & Investments Lifecycle Quality Buildings & Prosumers Digitalisation Renewable Hydrogen & Electrification Global Markets

Topics

International Cooperation Corporate Sourcing Solar Mobility Research & Innovation Solar Photo Competition Solar Skills

Our projects

Projects & Grants

Fundraisers

Solar Supports Ukraine
Advocacy

Explainers

European Green Deal National Energy and Climate Plans EU Solar Strategy EU Elections 2024

Positions

Policy letters Position papers

Campaigns

SolarSaves #MakeSolarEU European Solar Day Let's FLEX

Platforms

Electrification Alliance RE-Source Platform Renewable Hydrogen Coalition Solar Stewardship Initiative Solar Best Practices SolarWorks Agrisolar Europe Energy Storage Coalition The International Solar Manufacturing Initiative European Inverter Forum
Insights

Featured insights

The Sun Times: A SolarPower Europe Magazine

SolarPower Europe insights

Market outlooks Thematic reports Interactive data Podcasts Webinars
Solar Stream Events
Membership

Membership

Membership benefits Meet our members Become a member
 

EU Solar Jobs Report 2022

12 September 2022

The second edition of SolarPower Europe’s EU Solar Jobs Report provides the latest figures on employment in the solar value chain, and policy recommendations to create the jobs needed to harvest the gigantic potential of solar power in Europe.

Download the full report
About this report

The EU Solar Jobs Report 2022 edition shows that in 2021, the solar sector employed 466,000 full time employees (FTEs) in the EU, that’s 108,000 more than 2020. While 44% of the total, 205,000 FTEs were employed directly in the solar sector, a slightly higher share were indirect jobs - 57% and 260,000 FTEs -, which encompasses work in process materials and logistics industries.

Questions about this report
Bethany Meban
Head of Press and Policy Communications
Christophe Lits
Market Analyst
Supported by
Thanks to our sponser members:
Download the report
By submitting my information, I agree to the privacy policy and to learn more about products and services from SolarPower Europe.
These might also be interesting to you
EU Solar Jobs Report 2024
The EU Solar Jobs Report 2024 contains an updated forecast for the EU solar job market in 2024 and projections of the evolution of the EU solar workforce until 2028.
Read the report