Roles at carbon removal climate tech companies are the hardest to fill among climate tech companies, with time-to-fill times significantly longer than clean energy, built environment, and transportation climate tech companies
ClimateTechList analyzed ~60,000 job posts from 900 climate tech companies posted in the last 6 months.
Specifically, we found that the time-to-fill for an average job opening for the following climate tech verticals/sectors were:
- ⚡ Clean Energy/Renewable Energy: 34.3 days
- 🏠 Built Environment: 35 days
- 📒 Carbon Accounting: 38.5 days
- 💰 Financing & Fintech: 39.9 days
- 🥬 Food & Agriculture: 42.1 days
- 🏭 Industrials: 42.5 days
- ♻️ Efficiency & Reduction/Circular Economy: 44.6 days
- 🚗 Transportation/mobility: 47.8 days
- 🔄 Carbon Removal: 49.3 days
Carbon removal companies take almost 50% longer to fill their job openings than clean/renewable energy companies
Carbon removal is a nascent sector and probably requires more specialized scientist/implementation roles than more mature sectors like clean energy/transportation
By total number of jobs, energy and transportation are the biggest sectors by far. This matches various funding analyses from climate tech market research firms Sightline Climate (CTVC) and Net Zero Insights, where energy and transportation have been consistently the most funded sectors.
Total new jobs posted in the last 6 months by climate tech companies, broken down by sector:
1. ⚡ Clean Energy/Renewable Energy: 32,461
2. 🚗 Transportation/mobility: 17,458
3. 🥬 Food & Ag: 2,097
4. ♻️ Efficiency & Reduction: 1,316
5. 🏭 Industrials: 1,189
6. 🏠 Built Environment: 949
7. 📒 Carbon Accounting: 827
8. 🔄 Carbon Removal: 545
9. 💰 Financing & Fintech: 385
👉 For more insights on hiring trends by company, country, and job role type, see our latest climate tech hiring trends report here: https://lnkd.in/gpMCaSZ6
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