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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 505 391
Rank change year-on-year -27 -114 +233
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 183 429 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.43% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.22% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 98 285 298
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,750 £42,350
25th Percentile £41,563 £40,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - -25.42% +7.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% -21.54% +4.00%

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 19,972 35,117 43,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.26% 35.46% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,799 23,005 23,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,491
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 17 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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 151 £55,000 - 434
UK excluding London +7 127 £50,000 -1.96% 385
Work from Home +65 66 £53,750 -17.31% 215
North of England +24 42 £55,000 +4.76% 111
London +76 30 £75,000 -16.67% 123
South East +45 23 £48,750 +21.88% 91
North West 0 23 £55,000 -8.33% 50
South West +74 22 £46,000 -8.00% 55
Scotland +93 18 £45,000 -40.00% 46
Midlands +28 14 £58,750 +56.67% 65
Yorkshire +54 11 £55,000 +15.79% 38
North East +43 8 £10,000 -76.47% 24
West Midlands +43 7 £45,000 -14.29% 36
East Midlands +11 7 £60,000 +60.00% 24
East of England +32 6 £58,750 -9.62% 23
Northern Ireland +44 2 - - 3
Wales +29 1 - - 9

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 7 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.64%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.28%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (2.73%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.55%) Revit
6 1 (0.55%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) SAP SCM
2 2 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.55%) Endur
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.58%) Azure
2 29 (15.85%) AWS
3 8 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.73%) AWS IoT
4 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.73%) SaaS
5 3 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.55%) Datadog
7 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) LoRaWAN
3 3 (1.64%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.64%) VoIP
3 3 (1.64%) WAN
3 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.09%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) FTP
4 2 (1.09%) HTTP
4 2 (1.09%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.09%) SSH
4 2 (1.09%) SSL
4 2 (1.09%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) DVB
5 1 (0.55%) LTE
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.73%) MySQL
2 5 (2.73%) Power BI
3 4 (2.19%) TimescaleDB
4 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Git
2 2 (1.09%) MLflow
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
General
1 54 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.40%) Manufacturing
3 31 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.02%) Finance
5 21 (11.48%) Electronics
6 20 (10.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
8 14 (7.65%) Aerospace
8 14 (7.65%) Automotive
9 10 (5.46%) Legal
9 10 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.28%) Tech for Good
11 5 (2.73%) Retail
12 4 (2.19%) Aviation
12 4 (2.19%) Local Government
12 4 (2.19%) Marketing
12 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.64%) Games
13 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (14.21%) Senior
2 21 (11.48%) Software Engineer
3 19 (10.38%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (6.56%) Lead
6 11 (6.01%) Developer
7 10 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Analyst
8 9 (4.92%) Technical Director
9 8 (4.37%) Consultant
10 7 (3.83%) Graduate
10 7 (3.83%) Security Manager
11 6 (3.28%) Information Manager
11 6 (3.28%) Information Security Manager
12 5 (2.73%) Administrator
12 5 (2.73%) Junior
12 5 (2.73%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Site Manager
13 4 (2.19%) Data Analyst
14 3 (1.64%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.38%) .NET
2 13 (7.10%) React
3 10 (5.46%) Node.js
4 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.83%) NestJS
5 7 (3.83%) RESTful
6 6 (3.28%) Flash
7 4 (2.19%) CSS
7 4 (2.19%) React Native
8 3 (1.64%) XML
9 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.09%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.09%) EDI
9 2 (1.09%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.09%) HTML
9 2 (1.09%) LAMP
9 2 (1.09%) Loki
9 2 (1.09%) Metaflow
9 2 (1.09%) Spring
10 1 (0.55%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.21%) SCADA
2 13 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.56%) IoT
4 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.92%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.37%) NHS
7 7 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.83%) Driving Licence
8 6 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.73%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.73%) Photovoltaics
9 5 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.64%) FMCG
11 3 (1.64%) Solar Energy
11 3 (1.64%) Solar Panel
11 3 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.09%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.46%) Windows
2 8 (4.37%) Linux
3 6 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.64%) CentOS
4 3 (1.64%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.09%) AIX
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.03%) Project Management
3 32 (17.49%) Mentoring
4 27 (14.75%) Software Engineering
5 17 (9.29%) Business Development
6 16 (8.74%) Project Delivery
7 15 (8.20%) DevOps
8 14 (7.65%) CI/CD
8 14 (7.65%) Roadmaps
8 14 (7.65%) Visualisation
9 13 (7.10%) Agile
9 13 (7.10%) Business Strategy
9 13 (7.10%) Machine Learning
10 12 (6.56%) Computer Science
10 12 (6.56%) Data Management
10 12 (6.56%) Decision-Making
10 12 (6.56%) Feasibility Study
10 12 (6.56%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (6.56%) Systems Engineering
11 11 (6.01%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.11%) Python
2 23 (12.57%) TypeScript
3 16 (8.74%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.65%) SQL
5 12 (6.56%) C#
6 9 (4.92%) PHP
7 8 (4.37%) Bicep
7 8 (4.37%) Java
8 4 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.64%) C
9 3 (1.64%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) AWK
10 2 (1.09%) Korn
10 2 (1.09%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.55%) Go
11 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.55%) Rust
11 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (34.43%) Degree
2 11 (6.01%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.83%) HND
4 6 (3.28%) CISM
4 6 (3.28%) CISSP
4 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.73%) HNC
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.19%) PhD
7 3 (1.64%) CISA
7 3 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.09%) PMP
9 1 (0.55%) ACCA
9 1 (0.55%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.92%) QA
2 8 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.64%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.10%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) KVM
3 2 (1.09%) Postfix
3 2 (1.09%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.92%) Terraform
2 4 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.64%) SCCM
4 2 (1.09%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Nagios
4 2 (1.09%) Nessus
5 1 (0.55%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.56%) Facebook
2 12 (6.56%) YouTube
3 8 (4.37%) SAP
4 6 (3.28%) ANSYS
5 4 (2.19%) Ariba
6 3 (1.64%) Aruba
6 3 (1.64%) Cisco
6 3 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.64%) IFS
6 3 (1.64%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe
7 2 (1.09%) Apple
7 2 (1.09%) Databricks
7 2 (1.09%) Dell
7 2 (1.09%) HP
7 2 (1.09%) IBM
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) Veeam
7 2 (1.09%) VMware