Renewable Energy Contracts in Scotland

Renewable Energy
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 113 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 11 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.72% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 2.19% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 24
10th Percentile - £340 £480
25th Percentile £413 £356 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.30% +7.85%
75th Percentile £488 £501 £681
90th Percentile - £548 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.14% -
UK median hourly rate £50.75 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.29% -7.78% +44.83%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Renewable Energy falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +14 10 £450 -14.29% 11
Glasgow -1 1 - - 9
Renewable Energy
UK

Renewable Energy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 4 (36.36%) Tech for Good
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Project Assistant
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Communications Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Adobe