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Offshore WindSkills IntelligenceModel ReportSUMMARY – February 2021

IntroductionThis report provides a snapshot of the UK Offshore Windworkforce for 2020.It summarises an extensive People & Skills Survey exercise acrossthe UK sector, which has been input into a Skills Intelligence Modelto allow further analysis to the delivery of the UK Offshore WindSector Deal.The following organisations have supported this summary report: RenewableUK: People & Skills sponsor for Sector Deal, andprovision of Project Intelligence and Jobs Forecasting. National Skills Academy for Rail: developers of the SkillsIntelligence Model. Opergy Group: delivering industry and supply chainengagement, data analysis and reporting.

Offshore Wind Sector DealSector Deal – People & Skills Headlines Increasing to 27,000 direct jobs by 2030, up fromc.15,000 today, supporting at least 60,000 total jobs inthe sector. 33% women in offshore wind by 2030 (up from 18%)with ambition to reach 40% 9% BAME employees in offshore wind by 2030(up from c.5%) with ambition to reach 12% 2.5% of employed workforce from/on apprenticeshipschemes by 2030 Supporting transition training for former militarypersonnel Developing an ‘Offshore Energy Passport’ to facilitategreater job-mobility between offshore industries Audited more than 60 apprenticeship standards &frameworks

Research MethodsStep 1 INDUSTRY SURVEY Survey to offshore wind industry, collecting detailed workforce data All responses checked and uploaded to Skills Intelligence ModelStep 2 EXTRAPOLATED WORKFORCE FOR TODAY Using robust extrapolation formula, ratios, and government multipliers,estimate the total current workforceStep 3 FORECAST WORKFORCE DATA FOR TOMORROW Drawing from RenewableUK’s Project Intelligence Database andinsights from the Industry Survey, forecast the future workforcerequirements based on investment levels.

Industry SurveyA significant campaign to engage the offshore windindustry was undertaken through H2, 2020. Of morethan 500 companies identified and approached, 85detailed responses were received from a broad rangeof developers, operators, OEMs, and supply chain firms.11,365 specific jobs are identified, with varying levelsof response on gender, ethnicity, or employmentstatus.1. Data Collection2. Today’s WorkforceNote: all survey responses are GDPR compliant with non-identifiable personaldetails being captured, analysed and recorded.Survey Responses Grouped by Industry RoleDeveloper / Operator29.10%26.90%OEM3. Tomorrow’s WorkforceSupply Chain38.60%Analysis and Presentation0.00%10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 90.00% 100.00%

Offshore Wind Job Roles 5 Job Role Groups and 25 Subgroups have been designed tostandardise reporting of howoffshore wind jobs are structured. These have been tested with skillsprofessionals and industrypractitioners to ensure a robustapproach. Skills levels are assumed forEngland, but translatable forDevolved Administrations. For the purposed of this report, alljob titles and roles identifiedthrough survey entries have beenclassified against these roles.Role GroupsRole-Sub GroupsSkill LevelsManagementLeadershipManagement CorporateSkill Level 7 Skill Level 6Management OperationalTechnicalSkill Level 6Skill Level 6ProfessionalCorporate Services HRCorporate Services ITCorporate Services FinanceCorporate Services LegalCorporate Services GeneralCorporate Services AdministrationHealth & SafetyQualitySkill Level 7 Skill Level 6Skill Level 5Skill Level 5Skill Level 7 Skill Level 4Skill Level 2Skill Level 5Skill Level 5EnvironmentalPeople Development & SkillsGraduateTraineeSkill Level 5Skill Level 5Skill Level 5Skill Level 3ApprenticeSales & MarketingCommercialProcurementSkilled ManualSkill Level 3Skill Level 5Skill Level 5Skill Level 5Skill Level 4Semi Skilled OperativeSkill Level 3Not ProvidedNot ProvidedOtherNoneTechnical / ProfessionalCorporate ServicesHSEQPeople DevelopmentCommercial

Skill Levels FrameworkSkill levels are determined by: Regulated QualificationsFramework England and NorthernIreland (RQF),Credit and QualificationsFramework for Wales (CQFW),andScottish Credit and QualificationsFramework (SQCF)FrameworkSecondary /FurtherEducationRQF / CQFW LevelSQCF LevelLevel 14GCSE grade D-GBTEC at level 1OCR Nationals Functional Skills at level 15GCSE grade A* - CNVQ Level 2BTEC at Level 2Functional Skills at level 26AS/A LevelNVQ Level 3BTEC at Level 3OCR NationalsLevel 2Level 3Note: For the purposes of this report, all SkillLevels are referenced as RQF.Certificate of Higher EducationBTEC Diploma and Advanced Diploma at Level 4City & Guild LicentiateHigher National Certificate (HNC)Diploma in Teaching in the Life Long Learning Sector (DTLLS)Level 4 NVQLevel 4Level 4&5Framework forHigherEducationQualificationsExample Awards7-8Senior Command, Leadership & Management CoursesCombinedFoundation Degree Diploma of Higher EducationBTEC Diploma and Advanced Diploma at Level 5Higher National Diploma (HND)Individual University Modules at Level 2** (e.g. through Open University)Level 5UK Bachelors degreeLevel 69 - 10Level 711UK Masters DegreePostgraduate Certificate7 Enhanced DiplomaLevel 812Doctorates

Direct vs Indirect JobsDefinitionsDirect employment: refers to a FTE that is directly involved in theSelf-employed: Self-employed people are those who defineManufacturing, Development, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of anoffshore windfarm, including Engineering, Procurement, Construction, andInstallation of any of the wind farm's finalised kit: Turbines, Foundations,Substations and Cables.themselves as working for themselves, rather than receiving a wage or salaryfrom an employer. They are therefore not included in the census data wecollected from various offshore wind organisations as part of this analysis.When an organisation is involved in both direct and indirect work, we include it inthe category (direct or indirect) in which the company has the biggest contract (orbiggest project in MW).Indirect employment: refers to employment in industries that supplyand support the core activities of offshore wind renewable energydeployment. Usually, these workers do not consider themselves as working inrenewables; they produce steel, plastics, or other materials, or they providefinancial and other services. These industries are not directly involved inrenewable energy activities but produce intermediate inputs along the valuechain of each renewable energy technology (RET). A review of employmentfactors available in the literature indicates that the inclusion of indirect jobstypically increases overall job numbers by anywhere from 50% to 100%.The ratio for indirect/direct employment used in this analysis is 0.83. This meansthat adding indirect jobs to the total direct jobs estimated will increase theoverall job number by 83%.According to the ONS Labour Market Economic Commentary from May 2019,the construction sector has the highest share of self-employed workers in thesecondary industry while administration and support services are the highestin the tertiary industry. For this reason, this analysis focuses on workers fromthese two sectors only. The ratios for self employed used comes from the“self-employment analysis by NUTS1 2019” published by the ONS in 2020using their 2019 Annual Population Survey.IRENA definition used in Renewable Energy and Jobs, Box 2.2 key definitions:Employment factors, p.41, 2013.From Economic impacts of the UK offshore wind sector: Scenarios for the SectorDeal, Vivid Economics, March 2018: “Indirect jobs were estimated bymultiplying the total number of jobs supported in the offshore wind sector bya jobs multiplier of 0.83, as recommended in Centre for Economics andBusiness Research atasets/selfemploymentbynuts1region

Assumptions & MethodFuture Workforce Assumptions Using the level of investment (CAPEX, DEVEX, OPEXper year) estimates for 2020 and the jobs estimate for2020, we determine an index for the year.Using the investment projected per year, calculatedusing the capacity coming online over the next 15 years,we can project the level of jobs supported per year.Self-employed data only includes employees whoregister as self-employed and does not includecontracted workforce from temp or recruitmentorganisations, these are assumed to be accounted forwithin the survey data already.Using the ONS figures from 2019 and quick surveyingwith the biggest tier 1 construction organisations withinour sector, we evaluate that on average 57% of the totalworkforce in Construction services is self-employed,while 33% of the total workforce in administrationservices is self employed in the UK. The data providedby the ONS is split in regions so we can apply thecorresponding ratio to the corresponding job roles ineach region from our survey:Admin and support servicesRatio Self/EmployedNorth EastNorth WestYorkshire and The Humber0.250.270.30East MidlandsWest MidlandsEast of EnglandLondonSouth EastSouth WestWalesScotlandNorthern Ireland0.330.380.430.290.440.490.290.260.26Source: ONS, Self Employment by NUTS1 2020Primary production, utilities,constructionNorth EastTesting these figures with industry, we decided to applythis ratio to the relevant construction and administrationroles which we collected through our survey, separatingfor direct and indirect roles using the 0.83 multiplier. Wefind an extra 3,692 offshore wind workers self employed inthe various UK regions, working in administrative orconstruction/engineer jobs.Self-employed jobsAllAdmin and gineering 1.502,963.99727.520.25Ratio Self/Employed0.39North West0.55Yorkshire and The Humber0.47East Midlands0.53West Midlands0.62East of England0.53London0.67South East0.65South West0.66Wales0.65Scotland0.30Northern Ireland0.79Source: ONS, Self Employment by NUTS1 2020RESULTS. Adding the total jobs from our survey sampleestimates and our self-employed estimates from the ONSratios, the total number of estimated workers in theoffshore wind industry is 26,093 of which 15,205 directemployed.

CompaniesBelow highlights the contributing companies providing detailed survey responses into the Skills Intelligence Model. 4C OffshoreArmech SolutionsASCO UK Ltd Aspect Land & Hydrographic Surveys Ltd ATKINSAyrshire CollegeBorders CollegeBurntisland Fabrications LtdC&S Offshore ServicesComputer Service CentreCore Oil & GasDeepOceanDeutsche Windtechnik LtdDM Fabrication LtdDumfries & Galloway CollegeDundee & Angus CollegeDurham UniversityEarth Stream GlobalEast Coast CollegeECITBEDF RenewablesEEEGR EquinorFacilitating ChangeFife CollegeFrontera EnterpriseFurthermore MarketingGlobal Energy GroupGreen Tech Investment Partners ASHalpin Consulting LtdHarry Maiden LtdInnogyInosysITC Hydraulic Service LtdJames FisherJDR Cable Systems LtdLeask MarineLoad Monitoring SystemsLV ShippingMaclean ElectricalMaersk Training UK LtdMELCAL Marine UK LtdMHI VestasMiros Scotland North East Scotland CollegeNewcastle College - Energy AcademyNorth Highland CollegeNpowerOffshore Renewable Energy CatapultOHT RenewablesOpergy LtdOrstedOteac LtdPeople With EnergyPort of Cromarty FirthPrimo MarineProeon Systems LimitedProservRed Rock PowerRelyOn Nutec UK LtdRenewable Resource SolutionsRenewableUKRIGOCAL Engineering LtdRMi Engineering LtdRovCoRWE Renewables Schneider ElectricScottish PowerScottish RenewablesSeajacksSiemens GamesaSignum Geophysical LtdSSE RenewablesStowen GroupSuffolk County CouncilSunrock RecruitmentTaylor Hopkinson LtdTECOSIM Simulation LtdTekmar GroupUniversity of HullVan Oord Offshore Wind UK LimitedVattenfallWellton LimitedWhittaker Engineering (Stonehaven) LtdWindhoist

Today’sWorkforce

Today’s Workforce26,093Total UK Offshore Wind Workforce15,205 10,888Direct JobsIndirect ,093Source: Estimated figures by RenewableUK as at December 2020