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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 452 443
Rank change year-on-year -167 -9 -45
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 53 98 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.84% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 42 55
10th Percentile £198 £316 £263
25th Percentile £413 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £688 £644 £725
90th Percentile £754 £768 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £50.05 £13.46 £39.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.48 £40.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.05 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.81% -22.77% +18.57%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £54.15 £73.75 £59.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £32.05 £41.50
% change year-on-year +60.69% -22.77% +48.21%

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 18,469 11,725 11,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.89% 35.54% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 7,189 7,187
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £763 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 579 500
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +25.00%

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 10 September 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 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 10 September 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 -152 43 £575 -4.17% 191
UK excluding London -136 34 £525 -12.50% 156
London -89 16 £638 - 58
Midlands -54 9 - - 30
North of England -68 9 £550 +15.79% 41
Work from Home -92 9 £538 +3.61% 66
Scotland -39 7 £525 +61.54% 19
West Midlands -41 5 - - 17
South East -81 5 £550 -26.67% 31
East Midlands -19 4 - - 13
North East - 4 £575 - 9
Yorkshire -43 3 - - 13
East of England -31 2 £215 -64.17% 18
South West -46 2 £750 - 17
North West -57 2 £150 -68.42% 22

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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) PowerExchange
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.89%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 3 (5.66%) AWS
2 3 (5.66%) Azure App Service
2 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.66%) PaaS
2 3 (5.66%) SaaS
3 2 (3.77%) dbt
3 2 (3.77%) GCP
3 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Modbus
2 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.89%) 4G
3 1 (1.89%) 5G
3 1 (1.89%) BGP
3 1 (1.89%) DHCP
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.89%) Internet
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) LTE
3 1 (1.89%) MPLS
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) OSPF
3 1 (1.89%) SNMP
3 1 (1.89%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.89%) TACACS
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
3 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Metadata
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) Big Data
3 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.89%) EDMS
3 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Tableau
3 1 (1.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 15 (28.30%) Manufacturing
2 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 2 (3.77%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) SCADA Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Architect
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) IT Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Project Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.55%) SCADA Software Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Support
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Lead
5 3 (5.66%) Principal Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.89%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.89%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) LangChain
2 1 (1.89%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.89%) Node.js
2 1 (1.89%) NumPy
2 1 (1.89%) ODBC
2 1 (1.89%) Pandas
2 1 (1.89%) Plotly
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
2 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.89%) React
2 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.89%) SPFx
2 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Life Science
2 14 (26.42%) SCADA
3 12 (22.64%) Operational Technology
4 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.66%) IoT
6 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.89%) CMDB
8 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (13.21%) Service Delivery
2 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (11.32%) Analytics
3 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
4 5 (9.43%) AI
4 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
4 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (9.43%) Data Management
4 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
4 5 (9.43%) ITIL
4 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
4 5 (9.43%) Service Management
4 5 (9.43%) Software Engineering
4 5 (9.43%) Validation
5 4 (7.55%) Agile
5 4 (7.55%) Risk Management
5 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) Python
2 4 (7.55%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) R
3 1 (1.89%) Scala
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) CCNA
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.89%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) IFS
3 3 (5.66%) SAP
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (3.77%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.89%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) F5
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Meraki
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Reuters
5 1 (1.89%) SevOne
5 1 (1.89%) Siemens
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.89%) Trayport
5 1 (1.89%) VMware