Green IT Contract Job Trends

Green IT (Green Computing)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Green IT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 540 604
Rank change year-on-year -40 +64 +202
Contract jobs citing Green IT 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.008% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.010% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Green IT falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Green IT
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Green IT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Green IT job vacancy trend in the UK

Green IT
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Green IT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Green IT

Green IT
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Green IT within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 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
London -4 2 - -
England -38 2 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

Green IT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GoCD
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) rkt
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace