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 have cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 385 610
Rank change year-on-year -112 +225 +7
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 460 887 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.85% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 2.00% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 288 315 178
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -24.44% +8.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
UK

Renewable Energy is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 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
UK excluding London -111 355 £51,000 -24.44% 588
England -112 341 £57,500 -28.13% 656
Work from Home -38 119 £65,000 +8.33% 203
Scotland -109 77 £75,000 +42.86% 80
South East -110 74 £40,000 -55.56% 120
North of England +52 73 £57,500 +4.55% 129
London -12 70 £95,000 +5.56% 148
South West -28 55 £50,000 -41.18% 92
Midlands +5 45 £37,500 -42.31% 123
Yorkshire +89 33 £47,500 -13.64% 45
North West -12 29 £60,000 +9.09% 63
East Midlands -15 26 £37,500 -45.45% 43
East of England -28 20 £65,000 +60.49% 47
West Midlands +18 19 £53,750 -4.44% 80
Wales +11 13 - - 15
North East +6 11 £45,000 - 33
Northern Ireland +24 2 - - 6

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 10 (2.17%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.52%) Confluence
3 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (7.61%) Simulink
4 29 (6.30%) Stateflow
5 20 (4.35%) AutoCAD
6 14 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.87%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 4 (0.87%) SAP ERP
1 4 (0.87%) SAP HR
1 4 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 33 (7.17%) Azure
2 21 (4.57%) AWS
3 20 (4.35%) GitHub
4 17 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.87%) PaaS
8 3 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.65%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.65%) SaaS
8 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.43%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.43%) GCP
9 2 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.22%) Serverless
10 1 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.61%) Firewall
2 9 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.96%) Wireless
3 8 (1.74%) Bluetooth
4 7 (1.52%) DNS
4 7 (1.52%) Modbus
5 5 (1.09%) VPN
6 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.87%) VLAN
7 3 (0.65%) DMZ
7 3 (0.65%) Internet
7 3 (0.65%) Intranet
7 3 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.65%) Network Security
7 3 (0.65%) ZigBee
8 2 (0.43%) LAN
8 2 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.43%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.70%) Power BI
3 9 (1.96%) GIS
4 8 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
4 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.87%) MySQL
7 3 (0.65%) Big Data
7 3 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Git
2 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.30%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.09%) JIRA
4 5 (1.09%) Postman
5 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 96 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.00%) Finance
3 39 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.39%) Manufacturing
5 29 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.30%) Legal
6 25 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (5.43%) Retail
7 21 (4.57%) Electronics
7 21 (4.57%) Local Government
8 16 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.04%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.83%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.83%) Automotive
11 11 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.30%) Law
13 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.09%) Agriculture
14 5 (1.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 91 (19.78%) Senior
2 87 (18.91%) Project Manager
3 51 (11.09%) Developer
4 46 (10.00%) Lead
5 37 (8.04%) Software Engineer
5 37 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
6 35 (7.61%) Analyst
7 27 (5.87%) Control Systems Engineer
8 23 (5.00%) Junior
9 22 (4.78%) C# Developer
10 16 (3.48%) Embedded Engineer
10 16 (3.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 16 (3.48%) IFS Analyst
10 16 (3.48%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.26%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.04%) Architect
13 13 (2.83%) Electrical Engineer
13 13 (2.83%) Project Engineer
13 13 (2.83%) Senior Electrical Engineer
13 13 (2.83%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.17%) .NET
2 10 (2.17%) HTML
3 9 (1.96%) CSS
4 8 (1.74%) React
4 8 (1.74%) REST
5 6 (1.30%) Node.js
6 5 (1.09%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.87%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.87%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.87%) Flask
7 4 (0.87%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.87%) YAML
8 3 (0.65%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.65%) Laravel
8 3 (0.65%) NumPy
8 3 (0.65%) Pandas
8 3 (0.65%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.65%) SOAP
8 3 (0.65%) Vue
8 3 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.13%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (7.39%) Algorithms
3 28 (6.09%) Driving Licence
4 23 (5.00%) IoT
5 16 (3.48%) Embedded Systems
6 14 (3.04%) FMCG
7 11 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.39%) Operational Technology
7 11 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.17%) Life Science
8 10 (2.17%) PACS
9 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.52%) NHS
11 6 (1.30%) Solar Energy
12 5 (1.09%) Acoustics
12 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.09%) SCADA
13 4 (0.87%) Photovoltaics
14 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.26%) Linux
2 12 (2.61%) Windows
3 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.65%) Android
4 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (20.43%) Project Management
2 76 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (15.65%) Software Engineering
4 46 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 40 (8.70%) Validation
6 39 (8.48%) Change Management
6 39 (8.48%) Decarbonisation
7 37 (8.04%) Commercialisation
8 35 (7.61%) Verification and Validation
9 34 (7.39%) Logistics
10 33 (7.17%) Agile
11 32 (6.96%) Mathematics
11 32 (6.96%) Project Delivery
11 32 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (6.74%) ERP
13 29 (6.30%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
13 29 (6.30%) Mentoring
13 29 (6.30%) Rapid Prototyping
14 27 (5.87%) Decision-Making
15 25 (5.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.35%) Python
2 39 (8.48%) SQL
3 36 (7.83%) C#
3 36 (7.83%) MATLAB
4 19 (4.13%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.91%) C
6 16 (3.48%) C++
7 14 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.74%) Embedded C
8 8 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.30%) Java
9 6 (1.30%) PHP
10 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.87%) Bicep
12 3 (0.65%) Bash
12 3 (0.65%) Scala
13 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 109 (23.70%) Degree
2 16 (3.48%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.39%) DBS Check
4 10 (2.17%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.74%) NVQ Level 3
5 8 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.30%) HND
7 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.87%) PMP
9 3 (0.65%) CISA
9 3 (0.65%) CISSP
9 3 (0.65%) HNC
9 3 (0.65%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) CCA
10 1 (0.22%) MCSE
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.87%) QA
2 18 (3.91%) NEBOSH
3 8 (1.74%) IEC 62304
3 8 (1.74%) ISO 13485
4 7 (1.52%) GDPR
5 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.09%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.87%) ISO 14001
7 4 (0.87%) NIST
7 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) HAZOP
8 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) TickIT
System Software
1 10 (2.17%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Firmware
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.30%) Opsgenie
2 3 (0.65%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) Nessus
4 1 (0.22%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.48%) IFS
3 12 (2.61%) SAP
4 10 (2.17%) Autodesk
4 10 (2.17%) Progress
5 5 (1.09%) Workday
6 4 (0.87%) Databricks
6 4 (0.87%) EMC
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle
6 4 (0.87%) SYSPRO
6 4 (0.87%) VMware
7 3 (0.65%) Twitter
8 1 (0.22%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.22%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.22%) Facebook
8 1 (0.22%) HP
8 1 (0.22%) Instagram
8 1 (0.22%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.22%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.22%) YouTube