Recruit expert talent in energy
Recruitment agencies and partnerships can help you tap into the huge network of UK energy talent.
Recruitment agencies
The UK has a number of agencies with expertise in energy recruitment, including the following:
Talent locations
Energy talent tends to be clustered round the UK’s many centres of excellence, which are focused around broad subsectors.
Battery technology and energy storage
The West Midlands of England is home to the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, Europe’s sole open-access facility, bridging battery technology and successful mass production.
Oxfordshire in the South East is the location of the Harwell Energy Tech Cluster, employing 1,400 people. Harwell’s flagship is the Faraday Institution, which is advancing electrochemical energy storage research.
Wales has the world’s first compound semiconductor cluster, including a facility specialising in power electronics innovation.
Civil nuclear
The sector employs more than 60,000 full time equivalent employees across the UK.
In the South West, the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C, is under construction. It is already generating a host of supply chain opportunities and thousands of jobs.
A unique nuclear sector cluster spans the North West of England and North Wales – a partnership of industry, academia and the public sector, it champions the entire nuclear life-cycle capability.
The UK Atomic Energy Agency is located in Oxfordshire, in the South East of England, and is a hub for fusion research facilities.
Meanwhile Trawsfynydd in Wales is the preferred location for the UK’s first small modular reactor.
Decarbonisation
Zero Carbon Humber is a cluster of international energy producers, regional industries, infrastructure and logistics operators, global engineering firms and academic institutions aiming to decarbonise an industrial region of the UK.
In the North West, the Liverpool City Region Freeport is home to a major industrial decarbonisation project.
Electrical networks
The North East of England is home to the North Sea Link, the world’s longest subsea interconnector, joining the UK with Norway. In Yorkshire and the Humber region, the Viking subsea interconnector is nearing completion, linking the UK with Denmark.
Heat networks
UK’s first heat network cluster has been designated in the North East of England. The region is home to a body of experience in heat network delivery, and more than 25,000 people working in the energy sector.
Hydrogen
Scotland has 150,000 people working in the oil and gas industries and over 40,000 in low carbon – two areas with transferable skills into hydrogen. Eleven Scottish universities have also joined forces to drive research focused on hydrogen.
In the Solent, in the South of England, a cluster is developing around low carbon hydrogen for heat and power and sustainable fuels for transport.
Offshore wind
The world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, is under construction, and is located off England’s northeast coast, while Scotland is home to some of the world’s largest floating offshore wind farms, Hywind Scotland and Kindcardine.
Expertise through knowledge transfer
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme provides opportunities for businesses who have an idea, but do not have all the talent needed to develop it. The scheme can link your company with an academic or research organisation, providing you with the services of a graduate as an associate.
A KTP is part-funded by a grant, with a contribution also made by the company.