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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 463 453
Rank change year-on-year -168 -10 -31
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 60 95 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.80% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 50 52
10th Percentile £334 £346 £263
25th Percentile £438 £491 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £725
90th Percentile £761 £710 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 10
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.46 £40.36
25th Percentile £16.56 £15.48 £40.63
Median hourly rate £38.25 £15.96 £42.07
Median % change year-on-year +139.66% -62.06% +20.19%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.50 £45.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £56.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.56 £15.96 £42.07
% change year-on-year +3.76% -62.06% +50.23%

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 18,838 11,921 11,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.54% 36.06% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 7,303 6,908
10th Percentile £322 £297 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £526
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.49% -4.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,308 618 413
10th Percentile £13.93 £14.75 £15.62
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.82 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.54 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% -42.03% +6.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.51 £27.54 £55.75
% change year-on-year +28.94% -50.60% +9.94%

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 8 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 14 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 8 October 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 -123 49 £550 -8.33% 458
UK excluding London -109 42 £525 -12.50% 357
London -102 15 £663 +10.42% 150
Midlands -44 13 - - 72
Scotland -13 9 £525 +61.54% 69
West Midlands -37 9 - - 48
North of England -57 8 £550 +20.55% 78
South East -70 8 £550 -26.67% 64
Work from Home -100 7 £538 -3.15% 156
East Midlands -14 4 - - 24
South West -40 4 £750 - 37
North East - 4 £575 - 13
Yorkshire -34 2 - - 23
North West -45 2 £150 -67.12% 43

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 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Documentum
2 1 (1.67%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 5 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (5.00%) Azure App Service
2 3 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (5.00%) PaaS
2 3 (5.00%) SaaS
3 2 (3.33%) AWS
3 2 (3.33%) dbt
3 2 (3.33%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.67%) GCP
4 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Modbus
2 2 (3.33%) 4G
2 2 (3.33%) 5G
2 2 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.33%) LTE
2 2 (3.33%) TETRA
3 1 (1.67%) BGP
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.67%) OSPF
3 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.67%) SNMP
3 1 (1.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.67%) TACACS
3 1 (1.67%) VLAN
3 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Metadata
2 2 (3.33%) EDMS
3 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 24 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) SCADA Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.33%) Senior
2 8 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Project Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) SCADA Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Principal Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) ODBC
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.67%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) LangChain
2 1 (1.67%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) PySpark
2 1 (1.67%) React
2 1 (1.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.00%) Life Science
2 17 (28.33%) SCADA
3 12 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.00%) IoT
6 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.67%) CMDB
8 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 6 (10.00%) Analytics
5 6 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.33%) Agile
6 5 (8.33%) AI
6 5 (8.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 5 (8.33%) Migration
6 5 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 5 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 5 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) C#
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.67%) Scala
3 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) ACCA
2 2 (3.33%) CIMA
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) CCNA
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.67%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) IFS
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Actuate
4 2 (3.33%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (3.33%) Autodesk
4 2 (3.33%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) NetScout
5 1 (1.67%) OpenText
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Reuters
5 1 (1.67%) Siemens
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.67%) Trayport
5 1 (1.67%) VMware