The global construction industry experienced a 5% rise in new job postings related to environmental sustainability in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Environmental Sustainability in Construction – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to a 105% increase versus Q3 2021.

Notably, Electrical and Electronics Engineers jobs accounted for a 6% share of the global construction industry’s environmental sustainability-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, up 5% over the prior quarter.

Electrical and Electronics Engineers drive environmental sustainability-related hiring activity

Electrical and Electronics Engineers, with a share of 6%, emerged as the top environmental sustainability-related job roles within the construction industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings rising by 5% quarter-on-quarter. Civil Engineers came in second with a share of 5% in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 43% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent environmental sustainability roles include Computer and Information Systems Managers with a 4% share in Q3 2022, Mechanical Engineers with a 4% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in construction industry accounted for 9% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were CDM Smith, Black & Veatch, Owens Corning and COWI. Together they accounted for a combined share of 9% of all environmental sustainability-related active jobs in the construction industry.

CDM Smith posted 5,872 environmental sustainability-related new jobs in Q3 2022, Black & Veatch 5,634 jobs, Owens Corning 3,266 jobs, and COWI 1,798 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 66% share of total active job postings, Q3 2022

The largest share of environmental sustainability-related new job postings in the construction industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 66% followed by the UK (11%) and Canada (5%). The share represented by the US was four percentage points lower than the 70% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.

Premium Insights

From

The gold standard of business intelligence.

Blending expert knowledge with cutting-edge technology, GlobalData’s unrivalled proprietary data will enable you to decode what’s happening in your market. You can make better informed decisions and gain a future-proof advantage over your competitors.

GlobalData

GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article.

GlobalData’s Jobs Analytics uses machine learning to uncover key insights from tracking daily job postings for thousands of companies globally. Proprietary analysis is used to group jobs into key thematic areas and granular sectors across the world’s largest industries. classifications are used to group patents into key thematic areas and link them to specific companies across the world’s largest industries.