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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 467 493
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +59
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 94 89 146
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.78% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 81
10th Percentile £313 £263 £400
25th Percentile £488 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £644 £775 £700
90th Percentile £722 £835 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 13
10th Percentile £13.46 £40.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.48 £40.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.96 £42.69 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -62.61% -1.48% -29.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £52.75 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.96 £42.88 £39.17
% change year-on-year -62.78% +9.49% -36.32%

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 12,729 11,350 14,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.82% 30.93% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,867 6,701 10,043
10th Percentile £276 £285 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £668
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 690 365 499
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £16.83
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.50 £20.84
Median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -14.45% +48.59%
75th Percentile £51.19 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -33.75% -13.38% +81.78%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 15 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 14 November 2025. 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 -27 76 £600 -3.61% 153
UK excluding London -24 46 £600 +33.33% 112
London +16 35 £595 -25.63% 46
Work from Home +20 32 £530 -16.63% 77
South East 0 14 £750 +28.21% 19
Midlands -23 8 £625 +49.25% 30
North of England -50 7 £456 +65.91% 25
South West +2 6 - - 14
East Midlands -8 6 - - 11
Scotland -3 5 £325 - 12
East of England -14 5 £600 +365.12% 13
North West -18 4 £456 - 19
Yorkshire -38 3 £475 +72.82% 3
West Midlands -30 2 £625 +49.25% 19
Wales +1 1 £205 -36.92%

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 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (13.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.45%) Endur
3 6 (6.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.06%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.77%) Azure
2 11 (11.70%) AWS
3 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.26%) Lucidchart
4 3 (3.19%) GCP
4 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.13%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.06%) Dagster
6 1 (1.06%) dbt
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.06%) PaaS
6 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.06%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Firewall
2 4 (4.26%) Modbus
3 3 (3.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.06%) BGP
5 1 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.06%) DHCP
5 1 (1.06%) DNS
5 1 (1.06%) Intranet
5 1 (1.06%) MQTT
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) OSPF
5 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.06%) SNMP
5 1 (1.06%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.06%) VLAN
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.19%) Power BI
2 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (2.13%) GIS
2 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.13%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.06%) Big Data
3 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.06%) Parquet
3 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.06%) Redis
3 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) ERwin
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) Vite
3 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.85%) Finance
3 26 (27.66%) Manufacturing
4 7 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.32%) Law
6 5 (5.32%) Legal
6 5 (5.32%) Retail
7 3 (3.19%) Back Office
8 2 (2.13%) Automotive
8 2 (2.13%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Billing
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (15.96%) Analyst
2 13 (13.83%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.64%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.57%) Senior
5 7 (7.45%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Endur Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) Endur Business Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) OpenLink Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) QA Officer
6 5 (5.32%) SAP Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Lead
7 4 (4.26%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) React
2 4 (4.26%) REST
3 3 (3.19%) Node.js
4 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.13%) gRPC
4 2 (2.13%) SOAP
5 1 (1.06%) Blazor
5 1 (1.06%) Django
5 1 (1.06%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.06%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.06%) Jest
5 1 (1.06%) JSON
5 1 (1.06%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.06%) Parceljs
5 1 (1.06%) RESTful
5 1 (1.06%) Swagger
5 1 (1.06%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.06%) Vue
5 1 (1.06%) WebAssembly
5 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.60%) Life Science
2 7 (7.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.45%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.32%) SCADA
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.19%) PMI
5 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.13%) CMDB
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.13%) Insider Threat
6 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Derivative
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.60%) Agile
2 23 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (12.77%) Migration
5 10 (10.64%) Change Management
5 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
5 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (9.57%) Project Delivery
7 8 (8.51%) AI
7 8 (8.51%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
7 8 (8.51%) Business Analysis
7 8 (8.51%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.51%) Decision-Making
7 8 (8.51%) DevOps
7 8 (8.51%) Network Architecture
7 8 (8.51%) Resource Allocation
7 8 (8.51%) SAP Implementation
8 7 (7.45%) Analytics
8 7 (7.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.57%) SQL
2 5 (5.32%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) Go
3 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.13%) C#
4 2 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) Bicep
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) CBAP
4 3 (3.19%) CCNA
4 3 (3.19%) CCNP
4 3 (3.19%) City & Guilds
4 3 (3.19%) HNC
4 3 (3.19%) HND
4 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.13%) MBA
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) PhD
6 1 (1.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.19%) PMBOK
4 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.13%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) GRC
5 1 (1.06%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
1 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) SAP
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) OpenLink
4 4 (4.26%) Rockwell
5 3 (3.19%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.13%) ESRI
6 2 (2.13%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.06%) ComArch
7 1 (1.06%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.06%) Informatica
7 1 (1.06%) Meraki
7 1 (1.06%) NetScout
7 1 (1.06%) SevOne
7 1 (1.06%) Siemens
7 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.06%) Telerik
7 1 (1.06%) Trayport
7 1 (1.06%) Wonderware