Renewable Energy Job Trends in England

Renewable Energy
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 447 512
Rank change year-on-year -42 +65 -101
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 206 195 368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 1.15% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 151 83 236
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,050 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -23.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,050 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -18.52%

All Generic Skills
England

Renewable Energy falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,412 16,931 30,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.91% 42.94% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13,287 8,075 21,075
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,062
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Renewable Energy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Renewable Energy job vacancy trend in England

Renewable Energy
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Renewable Energy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Renewable Energy in England

Renewable Energy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Renewable Energy within the England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 52 £40,000 -20.00% 21
Midlands -8 46 £60,000 - 13
West Midlands +8 40 £60,000 +45.45% 10
London 0 40 £87,500 +16.67% 24
South East -12 35 £50,000 - 13
South West -60 31 £45,000 -6.25% 8
North East -37 23 £40,000 - 5
North West -26 15 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Yorkshire -67 14 £100,000 +86.05% 7
East Midlands -29 6 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East of England -23 1 - - 7
Renewable Energy
UK

Renewable Energy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.49%) WinCC
Applications
1 22 (10.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.65%) AWS
2 9 (4.37%) Azure
3 8 (3.88%) Power Automate
3 8 (3.88%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.43%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.43%) SaaS
5 5 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.94%) GCP
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.94%) DHCP
2 4 (1.94%) DNS
2 4 (1.94%) IPv4
2 4 (1.94%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.46%) VPN
4 1 (0.49%) Modbus
4 1 (0.49%) Profibus
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (3.88%) Power BI
1 8 (3.88%) Power Query
1 8 (3.88%) PowerPivot
2 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.43%) GIS
3 2 (0.97%) Big Data
3 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Git
2 7 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 30 (14.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.68%) Finance
3 20 (9.71%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.77%) Advertising
4 16 (7.77%) Agriculture
5 11 (5.34%) Legal
6 10 (4.85%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.85%) Automotive
6 10 (4.85%) Electronics
6 10 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.88%) Marketing
8 6 (2.91%) Fire and Rescue
8 6 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (21.36%) Business Development Manager
1 44 (21.36%) Business Manager
1 44 (21.36%) Development Manager
2 36 (17.48%) Analyst
3 22 (10.68%) Developer
4 20 (9.71%) Technical Support
5 19 (9.22%) Support Engineer
5 19 (9.22%) Technical Engineer
5 19 (9.22%) Technical Support Engineer
6 18 (8.74%) Senior
7 12 (5.83%) Support Analyst
8 11 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.34%) IT Analyst
8 11 (5.34%) IT Support
8 11 (5.34%) IT Support Analyst
9 10 (4.85%) Lead
10 9 (4.37%) Business Developer
10 9 (4.37%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.37%) Systems Developer
11 8 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.40%) .NET
1 7 (3.40%) CSS
1 7 (3.40%) HTML
2 6 (2.91%) Flask
3 5 (2.43%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.43%) Ajax
3 5 (2.43%) boto
3 5 (2.43%) Jinja
3 5 (2.43%) jQuery
3 5 (2.43%) OpenLayers
3 5 (2.43%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (1.46%) CSS3
4 3 (1.46%) Django
4 3 (1.46%) HTML5
4 3 (1.46%) REST
5 2 (0.97%) Node.js
5 2 (0.97%) React
6 1 (0.49%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.62%) Driving Licence
2 22 (10.68%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.37%) Solar Energy
4 8 (3.88%) Life Science
5 7 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.91%) CCTV
7 5 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.43%) SCADA
7 5 (2.43%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.46%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Photovoltaics
9 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.97%) Solar Panel
9 2 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.28%) Windows
2 8 (3.88%) Linux
3 4 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.01%) Business Development
2 24 (11.65%) Agile
3 23 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (10.68%) Customer Experience
5 19 (9.22%) Customer Service
6 18 (8.74%) Mathematics
7 17 (8.25%) B2B
7 17 (8.25%) B2B Sales
7 17 (8.25%) Commercial Awareness
7 17 (8.25%) Telesales
8 16 (7.77%) Data Entry
9 15 (7.28%) Process Improvement
10 14 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.31%) CI/CD
12 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (5.34%) ERP
13 11 (5.34%) Financial Analysis
13 11 (5.34%) Financial Modelling
13 11 (5.34%) Project Planning
13 11 (5.34%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.71%) Python
2 7 (3.40%) Bash
2 7 (3.40%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.91%) Java
4 4 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.46%) SQL
6 2 (0.97%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (11.17%) Degree
2 17 (8.25%) HNC
3 6 (2.91%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.94%) CCNA
5 4 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.94%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.94%) OSCP
5 4 (1.94%) RHCE
5 4 (1.94%) RHCSA
6 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) MCSE
7 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.91%) QA
2 3 (1.46%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.97%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (7.77%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.94%) Squid
3 4 (1.94%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.94%) vSphere
4 3 (1.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.28%) Kubernetes
1 15 (7.28%) Terraform
2 10 (4.85%) Ansible
3 4 (1.94%) Packer
3 4 (1.94%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.46%) Grafana
4 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.40%) Google
2 7 (3.40%) VMware
3 6 (2.91%) Oracle
4 4 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.94%) Splunk
4 4 (1.94%) Toshiba
5 3 (1.46%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.46%) Sage
5 3 (1.46%) Siemens
5 3 (1.46%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.97%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.49%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.49%) SAP