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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 377 602
Rank change year-on-year -101 +225 +30
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 462 892 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.86% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.01% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 290 318 180
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,350 £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 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.02% +6.00% +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 34,962 44,378 73,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.75% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,979 34,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,375 £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 £84,750
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 2 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 2 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 -125 356 £51,000 -23.02% 583
England -117 341 £57,500 -29.01% 649
Work from Home -47 118 £65,000 +8.33% 197
Scotland -100 78 £75,000 +42.86% 82
South East -100 74 £40,000 -55.56% 120
North of England +44 73 £57,500 +4.55% 128
London -12 70 £95,000 +5.56% 148
South West -31 56 £50,000 -41.18% 92
Midlands -2 44 £37,500 -42.31% 124
Yorkshire +101 33 £47,500 -13.64% 45
North West -14 29 £60,000 +9.09% 63
East Midlands -26 25 £37,500 -45.45% 41
East of England -29 20 £65,000 +60.49% 41
West Midlands +26 19 £53,750 -4.44% 83
Wales +17 13 - - 15
North East +3 11 £45,000 - 34
Northern Ireland +30 2 - - 5

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 (2.16%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.52%) Confluence
2 7 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (7.79%) Simulink
4 30 (6.49%) Stateflow
5 20 (4.33%) AutoCAD
6 14 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (2.38%) 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 35 (7.58%) Azure
2 20 (4.33%) AWS
2 20 (4.33%) GitHub
3 19 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.08%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.87%) PaaS
9 3 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.65%) SaaS
9 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.43%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.43%) GCP
10 2 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.43%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.43%) Yammer
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.60%) Firewall
2 9 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.95%) Wireless
3 8 (1.73%) Bluetooth
4 7 (1.52%) DNS
4 7 (1.52%) Modbus
5 5 (1.08%) 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%) VoIP
9 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.68%) Power BI
3 9 (1.95%) GIS
4 8 (1.73%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.87%) MySQL
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
8 3 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.38%) Git
2 8 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.30%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.08%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.08%) JIRA
4 5 (1.08%) 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 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 92 (19.91%) Finance
3 39 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.36%) Manufacturing
5 29 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.28%) Legal
6 25 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (5.41%) Retail
7 21 (4.55%) Electronics
7 21 (4.55%) Local Government
8 16 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.81%) Automotive
11 11 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.73%) Law
14 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Agriculture
15 5 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 90 (19.48%) Senior
2 87 (18.83%) Project Manager
3 51 (11.04%) Developer
4 49 (10.61%) Lead
5 38 (8.23%) Systems Engineer
6 37 (8.01%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.58%) Analyst
8 28 (6.06%) Control Systems Engineer
9 23 (4.98%) Junior
10 22 (4.76%) C# Developer
11 16 (3.46%) Embedded Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) IFS Analyst
11 16 (3.46%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.25%) Senior Manager
13 14 (3.03%) Architect
14 13 (2.81%) Electrical Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Project Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Senior Electrical Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.14%) .NET
2 10 (2.16%) HTML
3 9 (1.95%) CSS
4 8 (1.73%) React
4 8 (1.73%) REST
5 6 (1.30%) Node.js
6 5 (1.08%) 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 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 28 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 23 (4.98%) IoT
5 16 (3.46%) Embedded Systems
6 14 (3.03%) FMCG
7 11 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.38%) Operational Technology
7 11 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.16%) Life Science
8 10 (2.16%) PACS
9 8 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.52%) NHS
11 6 (1.30%) Solar Energy
12 5 (1.08%) Acoustics
12 5 (1.08%) SCADA
13 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.87%) Photovoltaics
14 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.03%) Linux
2 12 (2.60%) 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 (20.35%) Project Management
2 76 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (15.58%) Software Engineering
4 47 (10.17%) Prototyping
5 41 (8.87%) Validation
6 40 (8.66%) Change Management
6 40 (8.66%) Decarbonisation
7 38 (8.23%) Commercialisation
8 36 (7.79%) Verification and Validation
9 34 (7.36%) Logistics
10 33 (7.14%) Agile
11 32 (6.93%) Mathematics
11 32 (6.93%) Project Delivery
11 32 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (6.71%) ERP
13 30 (6.49%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
13 30 (6.49%) Rapid Prototyping
14 29 (6.28%) Mentoring
15 27 (5.84%) Decision-Making
16 25 (5.41%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (9.09%) Python
2 38 (8.23%) SQL
3 37 (8.01%) MATLAB
4 36 (7.79%) C#
5 19 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.90%) C
7 16 (3.46%) C++
8 14 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.73%) Embedded C
9 8 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.30%) Java
10 6 (1.30%) PHP
11 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.87%) Bicep
12 4 (0.87%) Ruby
13 3 (0.65%) Bash
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
14 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 109 (23.59%) Degree
2 16 (3.46%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.16%) DBS Check
3 10 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.73%) NVQ Level 3
4 8 (1.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.30%) HND
6 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.87%) PMP
8 3 (0.65%) CISA
8 3 (0.65%) CISSP
8 3 (0.65%) HNC
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) CCA
9 1 (0.22%) MCSE
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.84%) QA
2 18 (3.90%) NEBOSH
3 8 (1.73%) IEC 62304
3 8 (1.73%) ISO 13485
4 7 (1.52%) GDPR
5 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.08%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.87%) ISO 14001
7 4 (0.87%) NIST
7 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
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%) FISMA
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) TickIT
System Software
1 10 (2.16%) 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 63 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.46%) IFS
3 12 (2.60%) SAP
4 10 (2.16%) Autodesk
4 10 (2.16%) Progress
5 5 (1.08%) Workday
6 4 (0.87%) EMC
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle
6 4 (0.87%) SYSPRO
6 4 (0.87%) VMware
7 3 (0.65%) Databricks
7 3 (0.65%) Twitter
8 1 (0.22%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.22%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.22%) Facebook
8 1 (0.22%) Instagram
8 1 (0.22%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.22%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.22%) Samsung
8 1 (0.22%) YouTube