Hybrid/Remote Renewable Energy Job Trends

Renewable Energy
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 392 412
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +101
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 17 49 77
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.75% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 57
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £92,500 £85,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% - -11.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,210 6,512 8,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.40% 39.63% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,334 3,592 6,491
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £46,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,264 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Renewable Energy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Renewable Energy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Renewable Energy
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Renewable Energy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Renewable Energy salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Renewable Energy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Google Drive
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Supabase
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Agriculture
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) IT Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) IT Support
2 4 (23.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Sales Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.88%) Support Assistant
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) D3.js
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) Material-UI
3 1 (5.88%) Micronaut
3 1 (5.88%) Next.js
3 1 (5.88%) Playwright
3 1 (5.88%) React Native
3 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (17.65%) Solar Energy
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) SCADA
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.88%) IoT
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) CRM
3 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
4 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Server Management
5 2 (11.76%) AI
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) DataOps
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) IEC 61131
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Mapbox
3 1 (5.88%) Rockwell
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Siemens