Renewable Energy Contracts

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 have cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 384 542
Rank change year-on-year -42 +158 +104
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 157 355 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.84% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 216 149
10th Percentile £408 £425 £420
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +4.88% +7.89% +18.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 2
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.99 £28.61
25th Percentile £21.75 £15.21 £29.54
Median hourly rate £41.50 £21.00 £31.07
Median % change year-on-year +97.62% -32.41% -
75th Percentile £62.00 £45.00 £32.61
90th Percentile - £62.50 £33.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £18.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +123.70% -35.34% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Renewable Energy is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Renewable Energy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy.

Daily rate trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy.

Hourly rate trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 16 Contract 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 May 2024. 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 -59 123 £650 -3.70% 664
London -61 74 £700 -3.45% 166
UK excluding London +34 61 £538 +4.88% 572
Work from Home +79 45 £600 +20.00% 206
South East +21 20 £438 -20.41% 107
Scotland +25 17 £500 -2.63% 89
North of England +29 8 £700 +33.33% 130
South West +22 8 £550 +12.82% 89
Midlands +19 6 £800 +60.00% 115
West Midlands +18 5 £800 +36.17% 76
Yorkshire +16 5 £700 +43.59% 47
North East +17 2 £738 - 30
North West +20 1 - - 63
East Midlands +15 1 - - 39
East of England +15 1 £453 - 54
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 2

Renewable Energy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.10%) MTS
2 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) CMS
3 2 (1.27%) Skype for Business
3 2 (1.27%) Tornado
4 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Revit
5 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.64%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Endur
2 14 (8.92%) Aligne
3 8 (5.10%) EuroRunner
4 4 (2.55%) Maximo
4 4 (2.55%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (1.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.64%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.57%) Azure
2 17 (10.83%) AWS
3 13 (8.28%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.10%) GitHub
5 6 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.82%) Pulumi
5 6 (3.82%) Smartsheet
6 5 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (3.18%) Serverless
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.91%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.91%) SaaS
8 3 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.27%) GCP
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.91%) LAN
2 3 (1.91%) WAN
2 3 (1.91%) Wireless
2 3 (1.91%) WLAN
3 2 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.27%) Skype
3 2 (1.27%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.55%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.28%) Power BI
3 7 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.55%) Metadata
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
6 3 (1.91%) GIS
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.64%) EDMS
7 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.91%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) Pylint
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.64%) RSpec
5 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 76 (48.41%) Social Skills
2 60 (38.22%) Finance
3 47 (29.94%) Presentation Skills
4 31 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.46%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.10%) Automotive
6 8 (5.10%) Back Office
7 6 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Electronics
8 5 (3.18%) Front Office
9 4 (2.55%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Banking
10 3 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.27%) Legal
11 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Retail
12 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (21.66%) Analyst
2 25 (15.92%) Business Analyst
2 25 (15.92%) Developer
3 19 (12.10%) Senior
4 13 (8.28%) Project Manager
5 12 (7.64%) Lead
6 11 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.37%) C# Developer
7 10 (6.37%) Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Endur Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) Endur Business Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) OpenLink Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) Senior C# Developer
10 6 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.82%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (3.82%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) React Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.19%) React
2 8 (5.10%) Flask
3 7 (4.46%) .NET
4 6 (3.82%) HTML
4 6 (3.82%) Kafka
4 6 (3.82%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (3.82%) WebSockets
5 5 (3.18%) pytest
5 5 (3.18%) YAML
6 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.55%) Pandas
6 4 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.55%) Vue
7 3 (1.91%) Django
7 3 (1.91%) Node.js
7 3 (1.91%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.27%) HTML5
8 2 (1.27%) NumPy
8 2 (1.27%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.11%) Solar Panel
2 16 (10.19%) Life Science
3 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
4 10 (6.37%) Solar Power
5 9 (5.73%) Market Risk
5 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (5.10%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.27%) Derivative
10 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.27%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.27%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Windows
2 3 (1.91%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.27%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.84%) Agile
2 33 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.56%) Software Engineering
4 22 (14.01%) Use Case
5 19 (12.10%) Project Delivery
6 18 (11.46%) DevOps
7 17 (10.83%) ETRM
8 16 (10.19%) Front End Development
9 15 (9.55%) CI/CD
10 14 (8.92%) Data Analysis
10 14 (8.92%) Project Management
11 12 (7.64%) Analytics
11 12 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (7.64%) Process Improvement
11 12 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (7.01%) Business Strategy
12 11 (7.01%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.01%) Decision-Making
12 11 (7.01%) User Experience
13 10 (6.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.56%) Python
2 25 (15.92%) SQL
3 18 (11.46%) C#
4 8 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.46%) Java
5 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.18%) C++
7 4 (2.55%) Rust
8 3 (1.91%) Bicep
8 3 (1.91%) Go
8 3 (1.91%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.64%) R
9 1 (0.64%) Ruby
9 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (23.57%) Degree
2 7 (4.46%) Master's Degree
2 7 (4.46%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.91%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.91%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.27%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) PMO
4 1 (0.64%) SLA
4 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.01%) SAP
3 9 (5.73%) OpenLink
4 4 (2.55%) Databricks
4 4 (2.55%) IFS
4 4 (2.55%) Workday
5 3 (1.91%) Apple
5 3 (1.91%) Ariba
5 3 (1.91%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.27%) Black Duck
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco
6 2 (1.27%) Confluent
6 2 (1.27%) Google
6 2 (1.27%) Polycom
7 1 (0.64%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.64%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow