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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 435 448
Rank change year-on-year -148 +13 -36
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 40 82 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.83% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 71
10th Percentile £198 £428 £388
25th Percentile £488 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £697 £788 £725
90th Percentile £941 £913 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 23
10th Percentile - £32.05 £19.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +20.48% -29.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £53.50 £62.00
90th Percentile - £87.05 £66.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +12.24% +20.99% -31.06%

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 14,824 9,919 13,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 33.86% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,261 6,353 8,518
10th Percentile £300 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 710 383 901
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.37 £22.39 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.20 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +46.15% +27.45% +15.91%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -146 37 £625 -3.85% 53
London -60 24 £625 -21.88% 19
UK excluding London -118 17 £500 -20.00% 43
Work from Home -62 9 £500 -14.89% 18
Midlands -59 6 - - 6
South East -68 5 £500 -20.00% 3
West Midlands -60 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
Scotland -4 2 £383 -15.00% 9
North of England -71 2 - - 15
East of England - 2 £215 - 6
North West -43 1 - - 7
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (12.50%) Endur
3 3 (7.50%) Maximo
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.50%) Eikon
4 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) Dagster
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
1 1 (2.50%) LAN
1 1 (2.50%) Modbus
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 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Vite
1 1 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Front Office
6 1 (2.50%) German Language
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Project Manager
3 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Business IT Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Endur Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Help Desk Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) IT Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Service Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Middleware
2 2 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) ADO
3 1 (2.50%) Blazor
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Jest
3 1 (2.50%) NumPy
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) Parceljs
3 1 (2.50%) Plotly
3 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Sass
3 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.50%) SignalR
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.50%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Life Science
2 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) CMDB
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (17.50%) Business Analysis
2 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.00%) Project Management
4 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) AI
4 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.50%) Service Management
5 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (10.00%) ETRM
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (7.50%) Change Management
6 3 (7.50%) Data Entry
6 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (7.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) R
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CBAP
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PhD
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) SAP
3 5 (12.50%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) IFS
5 2 (5.00%) OpenLink
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Trayport
5 2 (5.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.50%) Calypso
6 1 (2.50%) DevExpress
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.50%) Murex
6 1 (2.50%) Telerik