Energy & Utility Skills Group is investing in its members to help meet one of the biggest workforce challenges facing the UK’s energy and utilities sector: attracting around 44,600 new people into the sector every year to 2030.
This demand extends across every skill level and includes both people required for new jobs created by growth and those needed to replace workers leaving the workforce. Energy & Utility Careers & Jobs (EUCJ) has been helping employers meet that challenge since 2019, providing a dedicated destination for careers and jobs across the energy and utilities sector.
Members are now receiving even greater value from their Energy & Utility Skills Group membership. Since the start of the 2026/27 financial year, every member has been entitled to up to 200 job postings on EUCJ as part of their existing membership fee. Previously priced at £1,000 per 100 postings, this benefit is worth £2,000 to each member, collectively amounting to £146,000 worth of value from membership.
To further increase member value, the Group has also reduced the annual cost of unlimited EUCJ job postings from £8,000 to £5,000, a £3,000 or 38% reduction. Across 73 members, this creates the potential for a further £219,000 in annual savings, alongside the £146,000 of additional value already provided through membership.
By making it significantly more cost effective for members and industry employers to advertise their opportunities, the Group wants to increase the number and breadth of vacancies available through EUCJ, attract more candidates and help employers reach the talent they need.
The investment responds directly to member feedback, recognising increased business costs including recruitment, while helping employers access the largest possible talent pool. It also supports the shared ambition of the Energy & Utility Skills Partnership to inspire and attract the workforce needed to deliver the UK’s future.
Later this year, the Group anticipates the launch of a brand new, leading sector platform to further develop and enhance recruitment support for the sector.
While membership provides enhanced benefits and preferential pricing, Energy & Utilities Careers & Jobs remains open to non-members. This helps maximise the number of employers, opportunities and candidates participating in the platform, increasing its value and impact for the wider sector. By offering additional benefits through membership while maintaining wider access, the Group aims to support both its members and the industry’s shared workforce challenge.
Keeping talent within the sector
Increasing the number of employers and vacancies on EUCJ also creates a bigger opportunity.
Every year employers attract candidates who have the skills and potential to work in the sector but are unsuccessful in a particular recruitment process. Rather than losing those people, greater use of EUCJ can help direct suitable candidates towards other opportunities and employers looking for similar skills.
The ambition is for more employers to direct suitable candidates who are unsuccessful in one recruitment process towards EUCJ, where they can discover opportunities with other sector employers. By ‘regretting brilliantly’, employers can help retain good candidates within the sector rather than losing their skills and potential to another industry.
This opportunity can only be realised through industry working together with a shared commitment to retaining talent.
Developing the behaviours for the future
The investment is also designed to increase the use of an existing sector asset.
EUCJ already attracts more than 10,000 candidates searching for opportunities each year. The next step is to encourage more members and industry employers to use the platform consistently, bringing more jobs and talent together in one place.
Working with members, industry, partners and governments, the Group has been engaging and testing ideas for a potential Sector Platform. Following positive engagement and testing, the Group plans to publish an invitation to tender (ITT) for the potential Sector Platform in August 2026.
The potential Sector Platform is being explored as a way to create a more connected experience across careers, jobs, talent and workforce development. Increasing participation in EUCJ now provides an opportunity to test behaviours and build industry participation using capability that already exists.
Steve Barrett, Director of Membership and Strategic Engagement at Energy & Utility Skills Group, said
“This investment responds directly to what our members have told us. It delivers greater value through membership, reduces the cost of recruiting at scale and encourages more employers to advertise their opportunities through EUCJ.
No individual employer can solve the workforce challenge alone. By working together, we can help our members reach more people, retain more talent within our sector and recruit the workforce they need.”
David Morgan, Head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Energy & Utility Skills Group, said:
“Attracting people into our sector is only part of the challenge. We also need to make the most of the talent we already attract.
Someone who is right for our sector but unsuccessful with one employer could be exactly the person another employer needs.
More employers, more opportunities and more candidates make EUCJ more valuable for everyone who uses it.”
Investing in our members
The investment forms part of Energy & Utility Skills Group’s commitment to deliver increasing value to members and support delivery of the Skills Strategy 2025-2030 across its four pillars: Research, Attract, Develop and Retain.
Meeting a workforce requirement of around 44,600 new people every year will require industry to act together. Increasing the use of EUCJ is one practical way we can start doing that today.
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