Renewable Energy Contracts

Renewable Energy
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 401 570
Rank change year-on-year -50 +169 +76
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 147 344 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 1.73% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 207 142
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £513 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +8.33% +39.05%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £725
90th Percentile £818 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £514 £479
% change year-on-year +2.24% +7.26% +19.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 2
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.54 £28.61
25th Percentile £20.88 £15.21 £29.54
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £31.07
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +44.83% -
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.63 £32.61
90th Percentile - £66.25 £33.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £45.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +60.71% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Renewable Energy is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Renewable Energy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy.

Daily rate trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy.

Hourly rate trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Renewable Energy within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 118 £638 -8.93% 624
London -53 73 £700 -3.45% 135
UK excluding London +41 56 £525 +2.24% 573
Work from Home +86 37 £600 +21.21% 199
South East +27 18 £501 -9.00% 107
Scotland +15 15 £431 -15.73% 82
South West +27 8 £550 +18.92% 91
North of England +27 7 £700 +33.33% 128
Midlands +18 6 £800 +63.27% 118
West Midlands +30 5 £800 +36.17% 81
Yorkshire +16 4 £700 +43.59% 43
North East +21 2 £738 - 33
East of England +17 1 £453 - 45
North West +13 1 - - 64
East Midlands +13 1 - - 37
Northern Ireland +7 1 - - 6

Renewable Energy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.44%) MTS
2 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Skype for Business
3 2 (1.36%) Tornado
4 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.36%) Revit
5 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Endur
2 14 (9.52%) Aligne
3 8 (5.44%) EuroRunner
4 4 (2.72%) Maximo
4 4 (2.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.68%) Primavera
5 1 (0.68%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.09%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) AWS
3 13 (8.84%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.76%) GitHub
5 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.08%) Pulumi
5 6 (4.08%) Smartsheet
6 5 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (3.40%) Serverless
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.04%) SaaS
7 3 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.36%) GCP
8 2 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.36%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.04%) LAN
2 3 (2.04%) WAN
2 3 (2.04%) Wireless
2 3 (2.04%) WLAN
3 2 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.36%) Skype
3 2 (1.36%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.84%) Power BI
2 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.72%) Metadata
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) GIS
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) EDMS
7 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Git
2 4 (2.72%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.04%) JIRA
4 2 (1.36%) Pylint
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.68%) RSpec
5 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 73 (49.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (41.50%) Finance
3 47 (31.97%) Presentation Skills
4 31 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (12.24%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.44%) Automotive
6 8 (5.44%) Back Office
7 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Electronics
8 4 (2.72%) Front Office
9 3 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.36%) Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 2 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Analyst
2 25 (17.01%) Business Analyst
3 19 (12.93%) Developer
4 17 (11.56%) Senior
5 13 (8.84%) Project Manager
6 12 (8.16%) Lead
7 10 (6.80%) Consultant
7 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) C# Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Endur Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Endur Business Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) OpenLink Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) OpenLink Business Analyst
11 6 (4.08%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (4.08%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (3.40%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.40%) Python Developer
13 4 (2.72%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.16%) React
2 8 (5.44%) Flask
3 6 (4.08%) HTML
3 6 (4.08%) Kafka
3 6 (4.08%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (4.08%) WebSockets
4 5 (3.40%) pytest
5 4 (2.72%) Pandas
6 3 (2.04%) .NET
6 3 (2.04%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.04%) Django
6 3 (2.04%) Node.js
6 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.04%) Smart Contracts
6 3 (2.04%) Vue
7 2 (1.36%) HTML5
7 2 (1.36%) NumPy
7 2 (1.36%) OAuth
7 2 (1.36%) SciPy
7 2 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.21%) Solar Panel
2 16 (10.88%) Life Science
3 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.12%) Market Risk
4 9 (6.12%) Solar Power
5 8 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.72%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.36%) Derivative
9 2 (1.36%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.36%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Windows
2 4 (2.72%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Agile
2 30 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (17.01%) Software Engineering
4 22 (14.97%) Use Case
5 19 (12.93%) Project Delivery
6 17 (11.56%) ETRM
7 16 (10.88%) Front End Development
8 15 (10.20%) DevOps
9 14 (9.52%) Data Analysis
10 13 (8.84%) Analytics
10 13 (8.84%) Project Management
11 12 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (8.16%) CI/CD
11 12 (8.16%) Process Improvement
11 12 (8.16%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (7.48%) Business Strategy
12 11 (7.48%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.80%) Decision-Making
13 10 (6.80%) SDLC
13 10 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.33%) Python
1 24 (16.33%) SQL
2 12 (8.16%) C#
3 8 (5.44%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.40%) Java
4 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.72%) C++
6 3 (2.04%) Go
6 3 (2.04%) Rust
7 2 (1.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Ruby
8 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.04%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.36%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.04%) GDPR
1 3 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.36%) NIST
2 2 (1.36%) PMO
2 2 (1.36%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.80%) SAP
3 8 (5.44%) OpenLink
4 4 (2.72%) Databricks
4 4 (2.72%) Workday
5 3 (2.04%) Ariba
5 3 (2.04%) IFS
6 2 (1.36%) Apple
6 2 (1.36%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.36%) Black Duck
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) Confluent
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle
6 2 (1.36%) Polycom
7 1 (0.68%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.68%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Sun