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 cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 441 365
Rank change year-on-year -16 -76 +210
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 94 154 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 1.17% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 75 207
10th Percentile £318 £263 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £788
90th Percentile £786 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 25 11
10th Percentile £14.07 £19.55 -
25th Percentile £15.48 £39.25 £15.21
Median hourly rate £40.03 £41.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +97.62% -38.49%
75th Percentile £53.50 £62.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £84.94 - £60.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.05 £41.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year -22.30% +114.29% -56.98%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,952 13,139 18,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 30.25% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,792 8,337 12,690
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 918 570
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.27 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +55.51% -13.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.44
90th Percentile £78.10 £72.50 £75.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £23.90
% change year-on-year -16.26% +49.93% +11.14%

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 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 15 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 4 July 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
England +8 69 £631 +5.21% 967
UK excluding London +19 52 £475 -5.00% 697
Work from Home +51 50 £550 -8.33% 391
South East +46 24 £688 +44.74% 117
London -9 24 £650 -7.14% 389
Scotland -5 9 £375 -25.00% 119
Midlands +8 7 £650 +44.44% 122
South West +37 6 - - 101
East Midlands +7 5 - - 63
North of England -5 5 £475 -24.00% 170
North West +6 3 £475 - 91
West Midlands +8 2 £650 +44.44% 62
East of England +20 1 £600 +365.12% 53
North East -3 1 £325 -51.85% 17
Yorkshire -5 1 £600 +118.18% 64

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 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (17.02%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 14 (14.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.19%) Primavera
4 2 (2.13%) Endur
5 1 (1.06%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) AWS
2 21 (22.34%) Azure
3 11 (11.70%) GCP
4 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.13%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.06%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) Firewall
2 2 (2.13%) Modbus
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.06%) BGP
3 1 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.06%) DHCP
3 1 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (1.06%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.06%) Network Security
3 1 (1.06%) OSPF
3 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.06%) SNMP
3 1 (1.06%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.06%) TACACS
3 1 (1.06%) VLAN
3 1 (1.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.19%) Power BI
3 2 (2.13%) Big Data
3 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.91%) Manufacturing
3 29 (30.85%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Retail
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Law
6 5 (5.32%) Legal
6 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.26%) Tech for Good
8 3 (3.19%) Agriculture
8 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Back Office
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Front Office
10 1 (1.06%) Marketing
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (13.83%) Developer
1 13 (13.83%) Project Manager
2 9 (9.57%) SAP Manager
3 7 (7.45%) Python Developer
3 7 (7.45%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Analyst
4 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
4 6 (6.38%) Lead
4 6 (6.38%) Programme Manager
5 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) QA Officer
5 5 (5.32%) Senior
6 4 (4.26%) C# Developer
6 4 (4.26%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (4.26%) SAP Project Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Senior C# Developer
6 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.19%) SAP Programme Manager
7 3 (3.19%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) Django
1 6 (6.38%) FastAPI
2 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.32%) React
3 4 (4.26%) PySpark
3 4 (4.26%) Vue
4 3 (3.19%) NumPy
5 2 (2.13%) Flask
6 1 (1.06%) .NET
6 1 (1.06%) ADO
6 1 (1.06%) Kafka
6 1 (1.06%) Pandas
6 1 (1.06%) pytest
6 1 (1.06%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Life Science
2 8 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.32%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.19%) Solar Panel
7 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.13%) Learning Management System
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) SCADA
8 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.06%) CMDB
8 1 (1.06%) Derivative
8 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.06%) Robotics
8 1 (1.06%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (25.53%) Agile
3 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.15%) Migration
5 17 (18.09%) Change Management
5 17 (18.09%) Risk Management
6 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (14.89%) Project Management
8 12 (12.77%) Scrum
8 12 (12.77%) Time Management
9 10 (10.64%) Analytics
9 10 (10.64%) Asset Management
9 10 (10.64%) Data Engineering
9 10 (10.64%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (9.57%) Critical Thinking
10 9 (9.57%) ERP
11 8 (8.51%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.51%) PRINCE2
11 8 (8.51%) Programme Management
11 8 (8.51%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) C#
4 3 (3.19%) Java
5 2 (2.13%) C++
6 1 (1.06%) C
6 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) PMI Certification
2 7 (7.45%) PMP
3 5 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.32%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.26%) CCNA
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) HNC
5 3 (3.19%) HND
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.13%) CISM
6 2 (2.13%) CISSP
6 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.13%) MCP
7 1 (1.06%) GCIA
7 1 (1.06%) GIAC
7 1 (1.06%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) PMBOK
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.06%) Ansible
2 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) SAP
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Databricks
4 4 (4.26%) Cisco
5 3 (3.19%) Adobe
5 3 (3.19%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.13%) Workday
7 1 (1.06%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.06%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.06%) Meraki
7 1 (1.06%) NEC
7 1 (1.06%) NetScout
7 1 (1.06%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.06%) SevOne
7 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds