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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 452 466
Rank change year-on-year -93 +14 -27
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 57 77 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.75% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 71
10th Percentile £488 £413 £363
25th Percentile £497 £568 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £630 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +14.55% -13.11%
75th Percentile £650 £806 £700
90th Percentile £919 £919 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £603 £476
% change year-on-year -17.01% +26.51% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 18
10th Percentile £48.00 £39.95 £19.25
25th Percentile £48.75 £42.07 £19.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +18.52% -3.78%
75th Percentile £56.25 £69.78 £61.88
90th Percentile £57.00 £87.05 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -33.48%

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 13,739 10,208 13,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 33.21% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,655 6,183 8,754
10th Percentile £275 £265 £258
25th Percentile £405 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 324 830
10th Percentile £15.38 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.30 £16.57
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.91 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +1.25% +44.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.60 £82.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.30 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% -7.14% +59.09%

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 21 February 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 12 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 21 February 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 -92 47 £600 -12.73% 77
London -39 33 £600 -29.41% 12
Work from Home -33 20 £530 -15.16% 27
UK excluding London -96 17 £500 -17.01% 71
Midlands -46 8 £625 -13.79% 26
South East -43 5 £500 -20.00% 14
West Midlands -49 5 £625 -13.79% 15
North of England -62 3 - - 12
East Midlands - 3 - - 11
North West -33 2 - - 7
Wales - 1 £205 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4

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 (3.51%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (17.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (12.28%) Endur
3 3 (5.26%) Maximo
4 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.75%) Eikon
5 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) AWS
3 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Dagster
5 1 (1.75%) dbt
5 1 (1.75%) GCP
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.75%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) Modbus
2 1 (1.75%) MQTT
2 1 (1.75%) Network Security
2 1 (1.75%) VPN
2 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (3.51%) GIS
1 2 (3.51%) Spatial Data
2 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Parquet
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) ERwin
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Vite
2 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 26 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 10 (17.54%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Front Office
6 1 (1.75%) German Language
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Analyst
1 11 (19.30%) Business Analyst
1 11 (19.30%) Project Manager
2 6 (10.53%) IT Analyst
2 6 (10.53%) SAP Manager
2 6 (10.53%) SAP Project Manager
3 5 (8.77%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Business IT Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Endur Business Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) IT Business Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Administrator
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Help Desk Administrator
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
5 3 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (3.51%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) React
3 2 (3.51%) ADO
3 2 (3.51%) gRPC
3 2 (3.51%) Node.js
3 2 (3.51%) SOAP
4 1 (1.75%) Blazor
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.75%) Jest
4 1 (1.75%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.75%) Parceljs
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
4 1 (1.75%) Sass
4 1 (1.75%) SignalR
4 1 (1.75%) Swagger
4 1 (1.75%) SwiftUI
4 1 (1.75%) WebAssembly
4 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Life Science
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) CMDB
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) PMI
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (21.05%) Business Analysis
2 12 (21.05%) Project Delivery
3 11 (19.30%) Agile
4 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.28%) DevOps
6 7 (12.28%) Migration
7 6 (10.53%) AI
7 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (8.77%) Data Transformation
8 5 (8.77%) Logistics
8 5 (8.77%) Machine Learning
8 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
8 5 (8.77%) Project Management
8 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.02%) SQL
2 3 (5.26%) Go
2 3 (5.26%) Python
2 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.51%) Java
4 1 (1.75%) Bicep
4 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.51%) CBAP
4 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) CCNP
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) PhD
5 1 (1.75%) PMP
5 1 (1.75%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.51%) NIST
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) IEC 61131
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) SAP
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) OpenLink
4 3 (5.26%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) ESRI
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) Trayport
5 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.75%) Calypso
6 1 (1.75%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.75%) Informatica
6 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.75%) Murex
6 1 (1.75%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.75%) Siemens
6 1 (1.75%) Telerik
6 1 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (1.75%) Wonderware