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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 451 396
Rank change year-on-year +13 -55 +171
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 81 149 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 1.12% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 76 207
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £471 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £606 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% +8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £725 £800
90th Percentile £913 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £538 £514
% change year-on-year +16.28% +4.67% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 5
10th Percentile £32.05 £19.25 £14.54
25th Percentile £38.95 £20.88 £15.21
Median hourly rate £50.75 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -7.78% +44.83%
75th Percentile £61.89 £62.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £87.05 - £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 £40.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +60.71%

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

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 30 April 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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 11 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 30 April 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 +1 57 £638 -1.92% 310
Work from Home +60 49 £550 -8.33% 161
UK excluding London +37 40 £625 +16.28% 249
London -12 27 £775 +10.71% 84
South East +47 22 £625 +24.88% 44
Scotland +4 11 £450 -10.00% 27
North of England +25 4 £475 -32.14% 71
Midlands +21 3 £688 -14.06% 59
West Midlands +14 3 £688 -14.06% 35
North West +12 2 £475 - 39
North East 0 2 £450 -38.98% 15

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 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (14.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 10 (12.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.70%) Primavera
4 1 (1.23%) Endur
4 1 (1.23%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.10%) Azure
2 22 (27.16%) AWS
3 9 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (9.88%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) Azure API Management
5 7 (8.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (8.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.94%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) LAN
3 1 (1.23%) Modbus
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (4.94%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.47%) Big Data
4 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) MS Access
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Selenium
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.40%) Manufacturing
3 20 (24.69%) Finance
4 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.17%) Tech for Good
8 3 (3.70%) Agriculture
8 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.47%) Retail
10 1 (1.23%) Back Office
10 1 (1.23%) Front Office
10 1 (1.23%) Marketing
10 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) Project Manager
3 9 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Python Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Analyst
5 6 (7.41%) Azure Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Lead
5 6 (7.41%) SAP Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) C# Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Project Assistant
6 5 (6.17%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (4.94%) SAP Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Architect
8 3 (3.70%) HR Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) PySpark
2 6 (7.41%) ADO
3 5 (6.17%) React
4 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.94%) Django
4 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.94%) NumPy
4 4 (4.94%) Vue
5 2 (2.47%) Flask
5 2 (2.47%) Kafka
5 2 (2.47%) Pandas
5 2 (2.47%) SciPy
6 1 (1.23%) .NET
6 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.23%) Blazor
6 1 (1.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.93%) Life Science
2 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.41%) Solar Panel
3 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.94%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Derivative
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.47%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.47%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) Agile
2 21 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.75%) Risk Management
5 14 (17.28%) Project Management
6 13 (16.05%) Change Management
6 13 (16.05%) Migration
7 12 (14.81%) Data Engineering
7 12 (14.81%) DevOps
8 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.35%) Time Management
10 9 (11.11%) Analytics
10 9 (11.11%) Asset Management
10 9 (11.11%) Scrum
11 8 (9.88%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (9.88%) Decision-Making
11 8 (9.88%) PRINCE2
11 8 (9.88%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.88%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) Python
2 15 (18.52%) SQL
3 9 (11.11%) Java
4 6 (7.41%) C#
5 5 (6.17%) C++
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) Rust
7 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) Go
7 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 8 (9.88%) PMI Certification
2 8 (9.88%) PMP
3 5 (6.17%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.70%) CCNA
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.47%) MCP
7 1 (1.23%) CCNP
7 1 (1.23%) CEH
7 1 (1.23%) CISM
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) GCIA
7 1 (1.23%) GIAC
7 1 (1.23%) GSEC
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) PMBOK
1 4 (4.94%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
1 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.05%) SAP
3 5 (6.17%) Adobe
3 5 (6.17%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) Cisco
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) Workday
6 1 (1.23%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.23%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.23%) NEC
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle