Solar Panel Contracts

Solar Panel
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Solar Panel in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solar Panel over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 542 537
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +133
Contract jobs citing Solar Panel 7 40 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.092% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.070% 0.30% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 110
10th Percentile £510 £630 £513
25th Percentile £700 £703 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £738 £750
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -1.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £944 £825 £813
90th Percentile £1,045 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Solar Panel 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 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

Solar Panel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Solar Panel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Solar Panel in the UK

Solar Panel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solar Panel.

Daily rate trend for Solar Panel in the UK

Solar Panel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solar Panel over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solar Panel in the UK

Solar Panel
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solar Panel within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +23 6 £875 +18.64% 6
London +4 6 £875 +18.64% 3
Work from Home - 1 £425 - 4

Solar Panel
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 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Energy Trading Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) NumPy
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) SciPy
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Applied Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (28.57%) Greeks
3 2 (28.57%) Market Making
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Probabilistic Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Proprietary Trading
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C++
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Rust
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle