SECR & ESOS Reporting Roles — UK Hiring (2026)

These hires will own your SECR (Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting) annual compliance, including energy consumption data collection, carbon emissions calculation and efficiency actions disclosure, against DESNZ's SECR environmental reporting guidance. For ESOS (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme) compliance, they manage the four-yearly energy audit process, coordinate with lead assessors and ensure notification deadline adherence, per the Environment Agency's ESOS guidance. The roles require deep understanding of SECR methodology including GHG Protocol application, intensity metrics development and energy efficiency action identification. SECR/ESOS specialists bridge technical energy management with regulatory compliance, ensuring accurate reporting and systematic efficiency improvement across operations.

This page does not publish a SECR/ESOS salary table, because none of the figures available for one rest on a disclosed sample or method. Shirley Parsons' HSEQ & Sustainability Salary Survey and Principal People's CSO research are both recruiter-commissioned figures with no published sampling frame, and neither is treated as evidence of a UK pay level. The one official anchor is ONS SOC 2020 unit group 2152, Environment professionals, whose ASHE median the Home Office publishes as a £37,200 Skilled Worker going rate. That figure is a whole-occupation median on a 37.5-hour week, derived from 2024 data — not a SECR or ESOS specialist figure, and not broken down by seniority. The Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends Guide 2026 3 reports that 93% of employers, across a 5,100-respondent, 15-sector cross-sector sample, faced skills shortages in the twelve months to publication — a general UK finding, not a sustainability- or energy-compliance-specific one. Ask candidates and agencies what they are seeing in a live search, and treat any published band — including the ones on this site's own salary guide — as a market claim rather than a verified figure.