Green jobs account for 17.2% of Balearic vacancies

Mallorca and the rest of the Balearic Islands: 17.2% of job vacancies are for green roles, according to findings reported on 27 October 2026. The figure comes from Savia, a project run by the Endesa Foundation with the Máshumano Foundation.

Other regions lead the way

Madrid has Spain’s highest share of green job vacancies at 22.1%. Catalonia, Cantabria, the Basque Country and Galicia are each around 20%. The report describes the Balearics and the Valencia region, at 17.9%, as emerging areas for green jobs.

Across Spain, the green economy could create up to 560,000 jobs before 2030, according to forecasts in the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan cited by the report. Savia says people over 50 could fill some of those roles if barriers to finding work were removed.

Older workers face a training gap

In the third quarter of 2026, Spain had 767,000 unemployed people over 50, according to the National Statistics Institute’s labour force survey. Of those, 386,200 were long-term unemployed. Yet more than 90% of older people surveyed by Savia said they would switch sectors and train for work linked to the green transition.

Savia says too few policies and programmes help older workers keep their skills up to date. It calls on companies to provide tailored training and on public authorities to offer certified retraining routes and incentives to hire older workers in the green economy.

Topics: Jobs & labour

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com