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 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 507 383 630
Rank change year-on-year -124 +247 -8
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 442 857 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.86% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 2.02% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 291 286 189
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £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 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,373 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.97% +4.00% +8.70%

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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 18 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -101 354 £56,250 -31.40% 714
UK excluding London -136 339 £51,373 -20.97% 600
Work from Home -43 124 £62,500 +4.17% 228
South East -104 83 £40,000 -55.56% 132
North of England +54 72 £56,250 -2.17% 123
London -31 68 £85,000 -5.56% 211
South West -27 56 £50,000 -41.18% 92
Midlands -11 49 £37,500 -38.78% 120
Scotland -134 46 £75,000 +42.86% 78
Yorkshire +92 32 £47,500 -13.64% 45
East Midlands -11 31 £37,500 -42.31% 40
North West -12 29 £60,000 +4.35% 57
East of England -26 22 £65,000 +83.10% 60
West Midlands +13 18 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Wales +11 13 - - 23
North East +4 11 £43,750 - 29
Northern Ireland +16 2 - - 1

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 (2.26%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.58%) Confluence
3 5 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (4.52%) AutoCAD
4 14 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.90%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 4 (0.90%) SAP ERP
1 4 (0.90%) SAP HR
1 4 (0.90%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 32 (7.24%) Azure
2 24 (5.43%) AWS
3 20 (4.52%) GitHub
4 15 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.90%) PaaS
7 4 (0.90%) SaaS
8 3 (0.68%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.68%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.45%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.23%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.23%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.49%) Firewall
2 9 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.81%) Bluetooth
3 8 (1.81%) Wireless
4 7 (1.58%) DNS
4 7 (1.58%) Modbus
5 4 (0.90%) Internet
5 4 (0.90%) Network Security
5 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.90%) VLAN
5 4 (0.90%) VPN
6 3 (0.68%) DMZ
6 3 (0.68%) Intranet
6 3 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.68%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.45%) SAN
8 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.23%) LAN
8 1 (0.23%) NAS
8 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.39%) Power BI
3 12 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.04%) GIS
5 8 (1.81%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (1.13%) Big Data
6 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.90%) MySQL
8 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.49%) Git
2 8 (1.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.36%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.13%) JIRA
5 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.90%) Postman
5 4 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.23%) GitLab
General
1 99 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.14%) Finance
3 37 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.92%) Manufacturing
5 30 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.56%) Legal
7 26 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (5.66%) Retail
9 21 (4.75%) Local Government
10 17 (3.85%) Automotive
11 16 (3.62%) Electronics
11 16 (3.62%) Telecoms
12 14 (3.17%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.36%) Law
14 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.13%) Agriculture
15 5 (1.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (20.14%) Senior
2 88 (19.91%) Project Manager
3 52 (11.76%) Developer
4 42 (9.50%) Software Engineer
5 35 (7.92%) Analyst
6 24 (5.43%) Lead
7 23 (5.20%) Junior
8 20 (4.52%) C# Developer
9 17 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
9 17 (3.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (3.62%) IFS Analyst
11 15 (3.39%) Electrical Engineer
11 15 (3.39%) Project Engineer
11 15 (3.39%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.17%) Senior Electrical Engineer
13 13 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
13 13 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (2.71%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.79%) .NET
2 12 (2.71%) HTML
3 11 (2.49%) CSS
4 10 (2.26%) React
5 8 (1.81%) Node.js
6 7 (1.58%) REST
7 5 (1.13%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.90%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.90%) Flask
8 4 (0.90%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.90%) Spring
8 4 (0.90%) YAML
9 3 (0.68%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.68%) Laravel
9 3 (0.68%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.68%) SOAP
9 3 (0.68%) Vue
9 3 (0.68%) Web Services
10 2 (0.45%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.50%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (6.33%) Driving Licence
3 24 (5.43%) IoT
4 16 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (3.17%) FMCG
6 12 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.49%) Operational Technology
8 10 (2.26%) Life Science
8 10 (2.26%) PACS
9 9 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.58%) NHS
12 6 (1.36%) Solar Energy
13 5 (1.13%) Acoustics
13 5 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.13%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.13%) SCADA
14 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.90%) Photovoltaics
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.07%) Linux
2 11 (2.49%) Windows
3 5 (1.13%) Android
3 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (21.27%) Project Management
2 80 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (17.42%) Software Engineering
4 35 (7.92%) Agile
5 34 (7.69%) Logistics
6 32 (7.24%) Project Delivery
6 32 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (7.01%) ERP
8 30 (6.79%) Mathematics
9 28 (6.33%) Mentoring
10 26 (5.88%) Decision-Making
11 25 (5.66%) Time Management
12 23 (5.20%) Data Science
13 21 (4.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (4.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 19 (4.30%) CRM
14 19 (4.30%) Process Improvement
14 19 (4.30%) Project Planning
15 18 (4.07%) Contract Management
15 18 (4.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.95%) Python
2 43 (9.73%) SQL
3 34 (7.69%) C#
4 21 (4.75%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.30%) C
6 17 (3.85%) C++
7 14 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.26%) Java
9 9 (2.04%) Embedded C
10 8 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.36%) PHP
12 5 (1.13%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.90%) Bicep
14 3 (0.68%) Bash
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.45%) Scala
16 1 (0.23%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 104 (23.53%) Degree
2 15 (3.39%) DBS Check
3 10 (2.26%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.81%) NVQ Level 3
4 8 (1.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.36%) HND
6 5 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.90%) PMP
8 3 (0.68%) CISA
8 3 (0.68%) CISSP
8 3 (0.68%) HNC
8 3 (0.68%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) MCSE
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.88%) QA
2 18 (4.07%) NEBOSH
3 8 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.81%) IEC 62304
3 8 (1.81%) ISO 13485
4 7 (1.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.13%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.90%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.90%) NIST
6 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.68%) HAZOP
7 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.68%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) FISMA
9 1 (0.23%) HITRUST
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (2.71%) Docker
2 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Firmware
4 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.36%) Opsgenie
2 3 (0.68%) Terraform
3 2 (0.45%) Nessus
4 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.62%) IFS
3 10 (2.26%) Autodesk
3 10 (2.26%) Progress
3 10 (2.26%) SAP
4 8 (1.81%) Databricks
5 5 (1.13%) Workday
6 4 (0.90%) EMC
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle
6 4 (0.90%) SYSPRO
6 4 (0.90%) VMware
7 3 (0.68%) Twitter
8 2 (0.45%) Siemens
9 1 (0.23%) Apple
9 1 (0.23%) AVEVA
9 1 (0.23%) Facebook
9 1 (0.23%) Google
9 1 (0.23%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.23%) Renesas
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce