Renewable Energy Contracts in Scotland

Renewable Energy
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Renewable Energy in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 131 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Renewable Energy 16 33 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 1.22% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.36% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 11
10th Percentile £348 £479 £383
25th Percentile £356 £493 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £459
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +11.11% -1.92%
75th Percentile £528 £675 £495
90th Percentile £589 £700 £514
UK median daily rate £600 £649 £600
% change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% +36.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.14% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.38 £21.00 £31.07
% change year-on-year +97.02% -32.41% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 711 983 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.22% 36.43% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 665 800
10th Percentile £200 £231 £256
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £558
90th Percentile £654 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 22
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.81
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £12.73 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% -70.03% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.39 £51.56
90th Percentile £60.10 £50.74 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Renewable Energy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Renewable Energy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Renewable Energy in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Renewable Energy in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Renewable Energy in Scotland

Renewable Energy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Renewable Energy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 6 £363 -39.58% 23
Highlands - 4 - - 3
Edinburgh +26 2 £525 +6.06% 11
Perthshire +5 1 £500 -25.93%
Renewable Energy
UK

Renewable Energy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Maximo
3 1 (6.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) GIS
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Commercial Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) ERP Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) ERP Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Risk Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) ERP
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Mathematical Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Value Proposition
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Project Governance
5 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) Rust
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 4 (25.00%) IFS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle