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A pay gap is not the same as unequal pay. It compares the midpoint of what men and women are paid across a whole workforce, so it mostly reflects which jobs each group holds. Paying people differently for the same work has been unlawful since 1970. Figures are employers’ own submissions to the Gender pay gap service, Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

UK pay gap explorer/Sectors/Energy

Sector benchmark · 2025–26

Gender pay gap in Energy

Name: UK Energy gender pay gap data
Creator: Remunify
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The median reported hourly pay gap across employers classified in this sector. Sector figures give context; they do not establish which employers perform well or badly.

About this sector’s data

This sector covers electricity and gas generation, supply and distribution and related energy operations.

The mix of engineering, field, trading, customer, corporate and leadership roles is relevant when comparing individual employers with the sector median. A pay gap describes the whole workforce and does not show whether people receive equal pay for equal work.

Across 91 classified employers, the sector median was 12.9% in 2025–26, 2.7 percentage points narrower compared with 2017.

Sector median gap: 12.9%
Change since 2017: −2.7 pts
Employers classified: 91

Nine years of sector filings

Median of employer-level median hourly gaps · not weighted by workforce size

Above zero, men earn more at the midpoint. Hover or focus each point for the exact figure. The incomplete 2026 reporting year is omitted.

Employers with the widest reported gaps

2025–26 · first 40 of 70 usable filings in this sector

UNITED INFRASTRUCTURE POWER T&D LIMITED250 to 49942.2%VITAL ENERGI UTILITIES LIMITED500 to 99938.2%VEOLIA ENERGY & UTILITY SERVICES UK LIMITED250 to 49934.4%EQUANS FM LIMITED500 to 99934.1%FIRST HYDRO COMPANYLess than 25030.1%NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC1000 to 499929.9%THE FREEDOM GROUP OF COMPANIES LTD.500 to 99928.9%SSE THERMAL ENERGY OPERATIONS LIMITED250 to 49927.7%EDF ENERGY LIMITED5000 to 19,99927.5%EDF ENERGY CUSTOMERS LIMITED500 to 99927.3%WESTERN BIOMASS OPERATING COMPANY LIMITEDLess than 25027.3%ENGIE UK LIMITEDLess than 25026.3%DAIKIN AIRCONDITIONING UK LIMITED250 to 49926.0%SMARTESTENERGY LIMITED500 to 99925.6%DRAX ENERGY SOLUTIONS LIMITED250 to 49925.0%E.ON UK LIMITED5000 to 19,99924.1%SEFE MARKETING & TRADING LIMITED250 to 49924.0%PX LIMITED500 to 99923.6%BWSC GENERATION SERVICES UK LTD250 to 49922.3%SSE UTILITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED250 to 49920.8%BWSC GENERATION SERVICES NORTHERN IRELAND LTDLess than 25020.3%GOOD ENERGY LIMITED250 to 49920.3%CENTRICA PLC1000 to 499918.6%CLARKE ENERGY LIMITED250 to 49918.2%SSE ENERGY SUPPLY LIMITED1000 to 499918.2%CADENT GAS LIMITED5000 to 19,99917.0%SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY POWER DISTRIBUTION LIMITED250 to 49916.4%VPI HOLDING LIMITED250 to 49915.8%STORENGY UK LIMITEDLess than 25015.2%DRAX POWER LIMITED1000 to 499914.9%UK POWER NETWORKS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED5000 to 19,99914.7%SEFE ENERGY LIMITEDLess than 25013.5%SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION PLC1000 to 499913.4%NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC1000 to 499913.2%SCOTLAND GAS NETWORKS PLCLess than 25012.9%SCOTTISHPOWER ENERGY RETAIL LIMITED500 to 99912.9%TOTALENERGIES GAS & POWER LIMITED500 to 99912.0%SP MANWEB PLC500 to 99911.5%SSE RENEWABLES SERVICES (UK) LIMITED250 to 49910.7%SP TRANSMISSION PLC500 to 99910.7%

These are the widest gaps in the filed data, not a ranking of the “worst” employers. Workforce structure, occupations and the legal entity covered all affect the result.