Renewable Energy Job Trends in the South East

Renewable Energy
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 250 309
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 -114
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 31 23 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 0.79% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 41
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,725 £30,000
25th Percentile - £32,063 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% -55.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -29.88%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,328 2,905 5,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.20% 37.64% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,086 1,443 3,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,139
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% -13.03%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Renewable Energy job vacancy trend in the South East

Renewable Energy
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Renewable Energy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Renewable Energy in the South East

Renewable Energy
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Renewable Energy within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Thames Valley +23 15 £60,000 +20.00%
Hampshire -14 13 £50,000 +51.52% 2
Berkshire +9 9 £60,000 -25.00%
Oxfordshire +11 6 - -
Surrey -21 3 £30,000 - 2
Renewable Energy
England

Renewable Energy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
General
1 10 (32.26%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Automotive
4 1 (3.23%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Business Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Power Platform Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Systems Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Delivery Manager
2 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery Manager
2 6 (19.35%) Service Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Team Leader
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Business Development Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Business Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Development Manager
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Junior
4 3 (9.68%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Project Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Life Science
2 5 (16.13%) Virtual Team
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) CCTV
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
2 5 (16.13%) Agile
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
2 5 (16.13%) Scrum
2 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
3 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
3 4 (12.90%) ERP
4 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
4 3 (9.68%) Data Encryption
4 3 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (9.68%) Kanban
4 3 (9.68%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (9.68%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
4 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) Bash
2 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.23%) MCSE
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
1 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
1 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Grafana
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.90%) Sage
1 4 (12.90%) Zscaler
2 3 (9.68%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle