Renewable Energy Contract Job Trends

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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 459 444
Rank change year-on-year -153 -15 -47
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 48 96 124
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.83% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 57
10th Percentile £198 £381 £263
25th Percentile £413 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £652 £725
90th Percentile £761 £776 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -29.17% +29.73% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £50.05 £13.46 £33.78
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.48 £40.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.05 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.81% -22.77% +97.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.25 £62.00
90th Percentile £54.15 £53.50 £64.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £24.01 £41.50
% change year-on-year +114.54% -42.16% +97.62%

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 17,871 11,569 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 35.13% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,838 7,128 7,571
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 995 561 607
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £12.45
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £29.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -34.82% +12.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £67.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -34.96% +11.59%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Renewable Energy job vacancy trend in the UK

Renewable Energy
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Renewable Energy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Renewable Energy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy
Top 15 Contract Job 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 13 August 2026. 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 -134 39 £625 +4.17% 273
UK excluding London -135 26 £425 -29.17% 229
London -85 19 £638 -0.97% 108
Work from Home -83 8 £525 -4.55% 105
Scotland -9 6 £475 +35.71% 56
Midlands -55 6 - - 40
North of England -60 6 £150 -68.83% 55
East Midlands -17 5 - - 17
South East -85 4 £550 -26.67% 27
East of England -23 2 £215 -64.17% 24
Yorkshire -39 2 - - 15
South West -42 2 £750 - 22
North West -45 2 £150 -68.42% 28
North East - 2 - - 12
West Midlands -44 1 - - 23

Renewable Energy
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) PowerExchange
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.17%) Endur
2 2 (4.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) AWS
2 3 (6.25%) Azure App Service
2 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.25%) PaaS
2 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.17%) dbt
3 2 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Modbus
2 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.08%) BGP
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.08%) DHCP
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.08%) Internet
3 1 (2.08%) LAN
3 1 (2.08%) MPLS
3 1 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) OSPF
3 1 (2.08%) SNMP
3 1 (2.08%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (2.08%) TACACS
3 1 (2.08%) VLAN
3 1 (2.08%) WAN
3 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Metadata
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
3 1 (2.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 11 (22.92%) Manufacturing
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Legal
4 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.08%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) SCADA Engineer
1 10 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Project Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) SCADA Software Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Principal Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Service Architect
6 2 (4.17%) SAP Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.08%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) LangChain
2 1 (2.08%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.08%) Node.js
2 1 (2.08%) NumPy
2 1 (2.08%) Pandas
2 1 (2.08%) Plotly
2 1 (2.08%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.08%) SPFx
2 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) SCADA
2 11 (22.92%) Life Science
2 11 (22.92%) Operational Technology
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) IoT
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) CMDB
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (12.50%) Analytics
3 5 (10.42%) AI
3 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
3 5 (10.42%) Data Management
3 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
3 5 (10.42%) ITIL
3 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
3 5 (10.42%) Service Management
3 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
3 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (10.42%) Validation
4 4 (8.33%) Agile
4 4 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (8.33%) ETL
4 4 (8.33%) Network Architecture
4 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) C#
3 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) R
3 1 (2.08%) Scala
3 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
1 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) CCNA
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) IFS
3 3 (6.25%) SAP
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (4.17%) Rockwell
4 2 (4.17%) Trayport
5 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) F5
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Meraki
5 1 (2.08%) NetScout
5 1 (2.08%) Reuters
5 1 (2.08%) SevOne
5 1 (2.08%) Siemens
5 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.08%) VMware