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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 448 434
Rank change year-on-year -156 -14 -70
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 40 85 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.83% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 78
10th Percentile £198 £313 £263
25th Percentile £469 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £697 £658 £725
90th Percentile £941 £788 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.05% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 26
10th Percentile - £13.46 £19.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £32.05 £24.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.50 £41.38
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +19.64% +97.02%
75th Percentile £57.50 £53.50 £61.88
90th Percentile - £87.05 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.03 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.41% -2.97% +25.00%

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 16,367 10,268 13,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.47% 34.50% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,026 6,438 8,323
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 450 944
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.97 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.80 £81.43 £72.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.91 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.78% -8.84% +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 18 June 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 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 18 June 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 -144 32 £625 -1.96% 72
UK excluding London -124 23 £463 -2.63% 59
London -60 14 £650 -0.38% 25
Work from Home -87 9 £525 -4.55% 27
Midlands -48 8 - - 12
East Midlands - 7 - - 2
Scotland -19 5 £425 - 2
North of England -71 3 - - 24
South East -78 3 £525 -16.00% 10
South West -25 2 £750 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 £215 - 3
North West -37 1 - - 15
West Midlands -52 1 - - 10

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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Endur
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
2 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
1 1 (2.50%) LAN
1 1 (2.50%) MPLS
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
1 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Project Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) SCADA Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Senior
2 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Analyst
3 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Lead
3 3 (7.50%) Service Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Endur Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) OpenLink Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) NumPy
2 1 (2.50%) Pandas
2 1 (2.50%) Plotly
2 1 (2.50%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.50%) SPFx
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) SCADA
2 5 (12.50%) Life Science
2 5 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) CMDB
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (12.50%) Agile
2 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 5 (12.50%) Project Management
2 5 (12.50%) Service Management
2 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (10.00%) ETRM
3 4 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (7.50%) Customer Experience
4 3 (7.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) R
3 1 (2.50%) Scala
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
1 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.50%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Databricks
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) IFS
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) OpenLink
4 2 (5.00%) Trayport
4 2 (5.00%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.50%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Reuters
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Siemens