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Renewable Energy & Clean Technology jobs in Spain for international graduates

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Renewable Energy & Clean TechnologyEnvironment, Sustainability & Agriculture · Spain
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Job market at a glance

The jobs Renewable Energy & Clean Technology leads to, added together. Each label compares Renewable Energy & Clean Technology with the other Spanish fields.

Online job ads a month (experimental) vs last year-22.8% StrongEurostat
Online job ads a month (experimental)228 StrongEurostat
New contracts a month (SEPE)7,864 SEPE
Average pay€42,100 ModerateINE
Entry-level pay€30,800 ModerateINE
Growth to 2035 (Cedefop)+29.3% StrongCedefop
Change since 2024+3.1% WeakINE
People in these occupation groups (INE)749,516 StrongINE
Jobs on the EU shortage report (2025)55% ModerateEURES

People in these occupation groups: everyone employed in the broader Spanish occupation groups (CNO-11, 2-digit) these jobs belong to, which is more than the jobs themselves (INE Labour Force Survey, 2025 average; est.). Change: the same groups, 2025 vs 2024. New contracts a month: contracts registered with Spain's public employment service (SEPE) in 2025 for the occupation groups these jobs belong to, ÷ 12. These are hires, not job ads, and short contracts count each time. Pay is INE's gross annual pay (2022), including the two extra payments, brought to 2024 by UNIFER with INE's yearly pay survey (its 2024 ÷ 2022 mean-pay ratio for the occupation group), so it is an estimate ("est."); it covers all employees, part-time included. INE publishes it for occupation groups, read through its CNO-11–ISCO-08 key.

Jobs this degree leads to

The jobs Renewable Energy & Clean Technology courses most often lead to in Spain, and how each one is doing.

JobShareAverage pay INEEntry pay INEGrowth to 2035 CedefopOnline job ads a month (experimental) Eurostatvs last year
1.Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified€41,860est.€30,849+29.1%414-22.6%
2.Environmental protection professionals€41,860est.€30,849+29.1%15-50%
3.Electrical engineers€41,860est.€30,849+29.1%141-9.6%
4.Management and organization analysts€44,200est.€30,382+32.6%133-29.3%

Share: how common each job is among Renewable Energy & Clean Technology destinations. Entry pay: lower-quartile pay, a guide to starting salaries. Online job ads a month: Eurostat's experimental count of online job ads in Spain for each job's occupation group (ISCO 3-digit), yearly ÷ 12, against the year before. Spain publishes no open count of job ads by occupation. Spanish figures are published for occupation groups; each job shows its group's figures ("est."). Job ads are Eurostat's for the job's ISCO 3-digit group. Swipe the table sideways for more.

What graduates like you earned

Master's graduates who studied Renewable Energy & Clean Technology or a related Engineering subject, working full time in Spain one year after graduating (graduates of 2019-20). Spain publishes pay for Engineering as a whole.

Graduates with a foreign nationality earnedaverage, 1 year on€24,500 SIIU
All master's graduates earnedsame field, for comparison€26,200 SIIU
Foreign nationality, 4 years onaverage€35,300 SIIU
All graduates, 4 years onaverage€39,400 SIIU

Graduates with a foreign nationality earned 6% less than all master's graduates of the field a year after graduating. Foreign-born tertiary graduates working full time in Spain earned 74.4% of what Spanish-born graduates earned (2022) OECD. Pay: the yearly Social Security contribution base of graduates working full time as employees (a gross-pay measure, capped at the maximum base). "Foreign nationality" includes foreign residents who grew up in Spain, not only international students.

Staying to work after you graduate

How international students stay to work in Spain after studying Renewable Energy & Clean Technology.

1
Finish your course

A master's or a PhD from a Spanish university.

2
Job-search permit
24 months BOE

to look for a job or start a business in Spain. It cannot be extended, and you may not work on this permit itself: you switch to a work permit once you have a job.

3
Work permit

Switch after your degree: with a job offer you can change to a residence and work permit without a visa and without a labour-market test. There is no salary minimum; the pay must follow the sector's collective agreement.

EU Blue Card: at least €33,085 a year within 3 years of your degree (€41,356 after that).

Typical pay in Renewable Energy & Clean Technology jobs vs the Blue Card salary for recent graduates BOE
€42,100
typical payminimum €33,085

Most graduates take the switch to a work permit, which has no salary minimum. The bar only shows how pay in these jobs compares with the Blue Card salary.

Renewable Energy & Clean Technology jobs on the EU shortage report for Spain (2025) EURES55%

In 2025, 27,469 non-EU students in Spain switched from a study permit to a work permit, 133 of them Indian citizens Eurostat.

Graduates living in Spain who are citizens of non-EU countries: 71% in work, against 86.2% of Spanish graduates (ages 25–64, 2025) Eurostat.

Renewable Energy & Clean Technology in other countries

Typical pay for the same jobs (in US dollars in brackets, at October 2026 exchange rates), projected growth, and post-study work after a master's.

Spain€42,100 ($47,100)Growth +29.3% (2022–35) · Job-search permit 24 monthsFrance€49,300 net ($55,200)Growth +30.5% (2022–35) · Job-search permit 12 monthsItaly€24,200 net ($27,100)Growth +37.4% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work up to 12 monthsUnited Kingdom£49,800 ($66,600)Growth +11.3% (2025–35) · Graduate visa 18 monthsUnited States$116,700Growth +6.6% (2025–35) · OPT 12 months, 36 with the STEM extensionCanadaCA$99,700 ($71,200)Growth +12.3% (2023–33) · PGWP up to 36 months
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AustraliaAU$138,800 ($97,500)Growth +21.1% (2025–35) · 24 monthsIreland€49,100 ($55,000)Growth +5.1% (2025–28) · Stamp 1G 24 monthsGermany€78,600 ($88,000)Growth +2.9% (2023–40) · 18 monthsNetherlands€65,100 ($72,900)Growth +1.3% (2025–30) · Orientation year 12 monthsSwedenSEK 630,000 ($63,400)Growth +40% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 12 monthsDenmarkDKK 772,500 ($115,700)Growth +24.6% (2022–35) · Job-seeking permit 12 monthsFinland€58,300 ($65,300)Growth +25.7% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 24 monthsPolandPLN 116,300 ($29,600)Growth +33.6% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 9 monthsBelgium€65,000 ($72,800)Growth +17.9% (2022–35) · Search year 12 monthsSwitzerlandCHF 105,500 ($128,000)Job search 6 months

Questions students ask

How much do Renewable Energy & Clean Technology graduates earn in Spain?

Master's graduates with a foreign nationality in Engineering earned an average €24,500 a year one year after graduating (working full time), against €26,200 for all graduates of the field. Across all workers in these jobs, typical pay is €42,100 and starting pay about €30,800.

Is Renewable Energy & Clean Technology in demand in Spain?

Employers posted about 228 online job ads a month for these jobs, 22.8% fewer than a year earlier. Employment in these jobs is projected to grow 29.3% from 2022 to 2035.

Can I stay and work in Spain after a Renewable Energy & Clean Technology master's?

Yes, for up to 24 months on a job-search permit; once you have a job offer you switch to a work permit, with no labour-market test. An EU Blue Card needs at least €33,085 a year within 3 years of your degree.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure comes from an official Spanish source. Tap a source tag next to any number for its details.

Cedefop Skills Forecast — future employment growth by occupation group, Spain, 2022–2035European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) · Cedefop: reuse with acknowledgement of the source (CC BY 4.0) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
EURES Report on labour shortages and surpluses — occupations in shortage, SpainEuropean Labour Authority (ELA) / EURES National Coordination Office · European Labour Authority / EURES: reuse with acknowledgement of the source · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Online job advertisements by occupation (ISCO-08 three-digit), Spain — experimental statistics (jvs_a_isco3_r1)Eurostat · Eurostat reuse policy: free reuse with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Change of immigration status permits, education to employment, Spain (migr_reschange)Eurostat · Eurostat reuse policy: free reuse with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Employment rates by educational attainment and citizenship, tertiary education, ages 25–64, Spain (lfsa_ergaedn)Eurostat · Eurostat reuse policy: free reuse with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Encuesta de Población Activa — ocupados por ocupación (INE, table 65967); ISCO-08 figures calculated by UNIFERInstituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) · CC BY 4.0 (INE) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Spanish post-study and work rules — BOE (Ley 14/2013, RD 1155/2024, Orden PJC/44/2026), manually verifiedBoletín Oficial del Estado; Ministerio de Inclusión — transcribed and verified by UNIFER · Official government information · loaded 19 Oct 2026
SEPE — Estadística de contratos, contracts registered by sub-major occupation group (CNO-11), December year-to-date file; a month calculated by UNIFERServicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE) · SEPE reuse conditions (Ley 37/2007, RD 1495/2011): reuse with the source credited · loaded 19 Oct 2026
SIIU — afiliación a la Seguridad Social de los egresados universitarios, máster, cohorte 2019-2020 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (SIIU) · Reuse allowed, commercial or not, with the source cited (ciencia.gob.es aviso legal) · loaded 19 Oct 2026

Indicative figures from official Spanish sources. They describe groups of graduates and workers, not what any individual will earn or be offered. Visa rules change, so check inclusion.gob.es before you decide.