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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 442 431
Rank change year-on-year -168 -11 -67
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 35 80 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.81% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 84
10th Percentile £198 £313 £299
25th Percentile £503 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £716 £675 £725
90th Percentile £949 £788 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 25
10th Percentile - £26.47 £19.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £32.05 £23.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +23.03% +96.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.89 £62.00
90th Percentile - £87.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.03 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.41% -2.97% +96.43%

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 15,819 9,863 12,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 34.21% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,755 6,238 8,277
10th Percentile £313 £290 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 781 408 924
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.31 £19.97 £15.21
Median hourly rate £41.94 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -5.71% +59.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.00 £82.33 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +60.00%

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 4 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 4 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 -138 30 £625 -1.96% 97
UK excluding London -125 20 £513 +7.89% 80
London -79 13 £650 -4.06% 28
Midlands -55 8 - - 15
Work from Home -81 7 £538 -4.44% 38
East Midlands - 6 - - 7
Scotland -18 3 £525 +23.53% 4
South East -81 3 £525 -16.00% 12
South West -32 2 £750 - 13
West Midlands -59 2 - - 8
North of England -73 2 - - 20
East of England - 2 £215 - 7
North West -29 1 - - 9
Yorkshire - 1 - - 8

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 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Endur
2 2 (5.71%) Maximo
2 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) MPLS
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Billing
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Architect
2 4 (11.43%) IT Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Senior
2 4 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Project Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) SCADA Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) SCADA Software Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Service Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Endur Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Help Desk Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) OpenLink Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) NumPy
2 1 (2.86%) Pandas
2 1 (2.86%) Plotly
2 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Life Science
1 4 (11.43%) Operational Technology
1 4 (11.43%) SCADA
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) CMDB
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.29%) Project Management
2 4 (11.43%) Business Analysis
2 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
2 4 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (8.57%) AI
3 3 (8.57%) Change Management
3 3 (8.57%) Customer Experience
3 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
3 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
3 3 (8.57%) Design Thinking
3 3 (8.57%) ETRM
3 3 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
3 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
3 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
3 3 (8.57%) Service Management
3 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
1 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Databricks
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) IFS
3 2 (5.71%) OpenLink
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.86%) F5
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Trayport