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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 444 437
Rank change year-on-year -170 -7 -68
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 41 92 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.86% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 42 75
10th Percentile £198 £318 £263
25th Percentile £469 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £697 £656 £725
90th Percentile £941 £786 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 25
10th Percentile - £13.87 £19.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.48 £39.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +15.66% +97.62%
75th Percentile £55.63 £53.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £56.75 £85.64 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £41.25
% change year-on-year +71.61% -22.30% +114.29%

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 16,922 10,721 13,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.88% 34.62% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,336 6,685 8,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 863 495 926
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.53 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.95 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £31.08 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +36.10% -12.82% +58.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.17 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.98 £78.73 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -15.49% +57.78%

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 2 July 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 13 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 2 July 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 -151 32 £625 -0.99% 91
UK excluding London -146 23 £500 +5.26% 71
London -79 15 £638 -1.92% 28
Work from Home -94 10 £525 -4.55% 36
East Midlands -15 7 - - 3
Midlands -48 7 - - 15
Scotland -11 6 £475 +26.67% 7
North of England -76 3 - - 26
South East -80 3 £525 -16.00% 10
East of England -19 2 £215 -64.17% 4
South West -36 2 £750 - 7
Yorkshire -43 2 - - 6
North West -52 1 - - 16

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 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Endur
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Azure App Service
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) PaaS
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) dbt
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Modbus
2 1 (2.44%) Internet
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) MPLS
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Big Data
3 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Metadata
3 1 (2.44%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
3 4 (9.76%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Tech for Good
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Architect
1 6 (14.63%) SCADA Engineer
1 6 (14.63%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) IT Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Project Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) SCADA Software Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
3 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Principal Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Service Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) NumPy
2 1 (2.44%) Pandas
2 1 (2.44%) Plotly
2 1 (2.44%) PySpark
2 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.44%) React
2 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.44%) SPFx
2 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) SCADA
2 7 (17.07%) Operational Technology
3 5 (12.20%) Life Science
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) IoT
4 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) CMDB
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
2 5 (12.20%) Agile
2 5 (12.20%) Data Governance
2 5 (12.20%) Incident Response
2 5 (12.20%) Project Management
2 5 (12.20%) Service Management
2 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (9.76%) Analytics
3 4 (9.76%) Business Analysis
3 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
3 4 (9.76%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
3 4 (9.76%) ETRM
3 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
3 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
3 4 (9.76%) Validation
3 4 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (7.32%) Data Transformation
4 3 (7.32%) Predictive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) R
3 1 (2.44%) Scala
3 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Databricks
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) IFS
3 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) OpenLink
4 2 (4.88%) Trayport
5 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.44%) F5
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Reuters
5 1 (2.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Siemens