Renewable Energy Jobs

Renewable Energy
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 452 572
Rank change year-on-year -84 +120 +54
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 259 334 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 1.56% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 114 185 228
10th Percentile £32,650 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,611 21,382 60,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.58% 37.45% 44.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,765 15,595 31,424
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,680 £45,331 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Renewable Energy within the UK over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 206 £60,000 - 160
UK excluding London -66 191 £57,500 +2.68% 140
London -27 60 £78,000 -22.00% 43
Work from Home -1 56 £72,500 +26.09% 104
South East -16 43 £73,750 +65.73% 27
Scotland -27 40 £71,000 +29.09% 19
Midlands -46 36 £57,500 -4.17% 31
North of England -43 31 £65,000 +13.04% 30
South West +13 29 £32,500 -41.96% 20
West Midlands -25 21 £55,000 -24.14% 14
East Midlands -20 15 £57,500 +21.05% 17
North West -46 15 - - 16
Yorkshire +12 8 £50,000 -33.33% 12
North East -34 8 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Wales +14 7 - - 1
East of England -51 5 £62,500 +4.17% 13

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 11 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.54%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.09%) AutoCAD
3 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Endur
2 3 (1.16%) Findur
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.11%) Azure
2 18 (6.95%) AWS
3 12 (4.63%) SaaS
4 7 (2.70%) GCP
5 4 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.54%) WhatsApp
6 3 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.77%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Storage
7 2 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.77%) GitHub
7 2 (0.77%) IaaS
7 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.39%) Datadog
8 1 (0.39%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Google Play
8 1 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.09%) Firewall
2 6 (2.32%) Network Security
2 6 (2.32%) PPP
3 4 (1.54%) DAB
3 4 (1.54%) VSAT
4 3 (1.16%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.77%) Modbus
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wireless
6 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.93%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.54%) Parquet
5 3 (1.16%) Big Data
6 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) Looker
6 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.77%) Tableau
7 1 (0.39%) GIS
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) MySQL
7 1 (0.39%) Power BI
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.47%) Git
2 5 (1.93%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
General
1 58 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.69%) Finance
3 33 (12.74%) Manufacturing
4 27 (10.42%) Automotive
5 18 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.95%) Retail
6 14 (5.41%) Marketing
7 11 (4.25%) Electronics
7 11 (4.25%) Legal
8 10 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.86%) Tech for Good
9 9 (3.47%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.09%) Law
11 7 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.93%) Back Office
12 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.54%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 62 (23.94%) Senior
2 53 (20.46%) Project Manager
3 29 (11.20%) Developer
4 25 (9.65%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.11%) Lead
6 18 (6.95%) Senior Manager
7 16 (6.18%) Software Developer
8 15 (5.79%) Audit Manager
8 15 (5.79%) Quality Manager
8 15 (5.79%) Senior Audit Manager
9 14 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.41%) Technical Manager
10 13 (5.02%) Technical Support
11 12 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.25%) Embedded Engineer
13 10 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (3.47%) Commercial Manager
14 9 (3.47%) Commercial Project Manager
14 9 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (3.09%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.79%) React
2 7 (2.70%) .NET
2 7 (2.70%) CSS
3 6 (2.32%) RESTful
4 5 (1.93%) HTML
4 5 (1.93%) Kafka
4 5 (1.93%) Next.js
4 5 (1.93%) Node.js
4 5 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.54%) DOM
5 4 (1.54%) HTML5
5 4 (1.54%) Spring
6 3 (1.16%) Pandas
6 3 (1.16%) SOAP
7 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.77%) LightGBM
7 2 (0.77%) NumPy
7 2 (0.77%) pydantic
7 2 (0.77%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.79%) Hedge funds
2 9 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.09%) Solar Power
4 6 (2.32%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.32%) SCADA
5 5 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.93%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.93%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.54%) Housing Association
6 4 (1.54%) Life Science
7 3 (1.16%) CCTV
7 3 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.16%) IoT
7 3 (1.16%) Photovoltaics
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.09%) Linux
1 8 (3.09%) Windows
2 4 (1.54%) Android
3 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.31%) Project Management
2 45 (17.37%) Software Engineering
3 43 (16.60%) Agile
4 38 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (13.51%) Mentoring
6 26 (10.04%) Coaching
7 24 (9.27%) Creative Thinking
7 24 (9.27%) Roadmaps
8 19 (7.34%) Analytics
9 17 (6.56%) Asset Management
9 17 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (5.79%) IT Audit
11 14 (5.41%) Front End Development
11 14 (5.41%) Scrum
12 13 (5.02%) Performance Management
12 13 (5.02%) PRINCE2
13 12 (4.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (4.63%) Product Roadmap
14 11 (4.25%) CI/CD
14 11 (4.25%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.27%) Python
2 21 (8.11%) Java
3 16 (6.18%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.79%) SQL
5 9 (3.47%) Kotlin
6 8 (3.09%) C
6 8 (3.09%) C#
6 8 (3.09%) C++
7 7 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.93%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.54%) Bicep
10 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.16%) VB
11 2 (0.77%) R
11 2 (0.77%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Bash
12 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.39%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.39%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (18.15%) Degree
2 12 (4.63%) PMP
3 9 (3.47%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.32%) ACCA
4 6 (2.32%) CFA
4 6 (2.32%) ICAEW
4 6 (2.32%) PhD
5 5 (1.93%) CISM
5 5 (1.93%) CISSP
5 5 (1.93%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (1.54%) CISA
6 4 (1.54%) HNC
7 3 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.16%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.77%) NVQ Level 4
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.70%) QA
2 5 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.93%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (3.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (5.79%) Terraform
2 12 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) CloudForms
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.77%) vRealize
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (4.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.09%) Google
2 8 (3.09%) Oracle
3 5 (1.93%) Siemens
4 4 (1.54%) NEC
4 4 (1.54%) SYSPRO
5 3 (1.16%) Cisco
5 3 (1.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.16%) VMware
6 2 (0.77%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.77%) Databricks
6 2 (0.77%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.77%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.77%) SAP
7 1 (0.39%) HP
7 1 (0.39%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.39%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.39%) Progress
7 1 (0.39%) Renesas