UK renewables employment growth has slowed over the last two years with new figures showing 125,940 people employed across the sector in the 2015/16 fiscal year, according to the Renewable Energy Association (REA).

The number of jobs in UK renewables grew by 2.5% between 2014/15 and 2015/16, a significant decline in expansion from the previous two years when growth was nearly 9%, according to the association's REView 2017 industry survey.