Renewable Energy Jobs

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 cited Renewable Energy over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 455 455
Rank change year-on-year -84 0 +181
Permanent jobs citing Renewable Energy 213 332 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 1.51% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 81 201 281
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £140,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,807 21,942 45,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.05% 35.43% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,654 15,694 26,504
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,408 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.80%

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 17 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Renewable Energy in the UK

Renewable Energy
Top 16 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 17 January 2025. 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 -53 177 £55,000 -6.38% 201
UK excluding London -102 145 £55,000 +10.00% 141
Work from Home +12 49 £65,000 +8.33% 104
London -9 47 £65,500 -46.53% 82
South West +31 30 £45,000 -19.64% 24
North of England -50 28 £55,000 +6.80% 38
Midlands -17 27 £57,500 +9.52% 27
South East -33 26 £50,000 +25.00% 21
Scotland -29 24 £68,750 +14.58% 25
North West -44 18 £55,000 -6.38% 22
West Midlands -29 17 £60,000 +6.67% 20
East Midlands -7 10 £57,500 +53.33% 7
Yorkshire +13 8 £55,000 +15.79% 11
Wales +7 5 - -
East of England -37 5 £65,000 +6.12% 15
North East -21 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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.88%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.23%) AutoCAD
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Endur
2 3 (1.41%) Findur
3 2 (0.94%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.55%) Azure
2 18 (8.45%) AWS
3 10 (4.69%) SaaS
4 5 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.88%) GCP
5 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.41%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.94%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Storage
7 2 (0.94%) Datadog
7 2 (0.94%) IaaS
7 2 (0.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.47%) GitHub
8 1 (0.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.47%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) Firewall
2 6 (2.82%) PPP
3 5 (2.35%) VSAT
4 4 (1.88%) DAB
5 3 (1.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.94%) DNS
6 2 (0.94%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.94%) FTP
6 2 (0.94%) HTTP
6 2 (0.94%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.94%) Modbus
6 2 (0.94%) SSH
6 2 (0.94%) SSL
7 1 (0.47%) DVB
7 1 (0.47%) LAN
7 1 (0.47%) LTE
7 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) Wireless
7 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.88%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.88%) MySQL
5 4 (1.88%) Parquet
5 4 (1.88%) Power BI
5 4 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.41%) Big Data
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.47%) GIS
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Git
2 4 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 79 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.94%) Finance
3 44 (20.66%) Manufacturing
4 24 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.92%) Retail
6 14 (6.57%) Automotive
7 10 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.69%) Marketing
8 9 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.76%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.76%) Electronics
9 8 (3.76%) Legal
10 7 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.35%) Agriculture
12 5 (2.35%) Back Office
12 5 (2.35%) Law
12 5 (2.35%) Local Government
12 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 69 (32.39%) Project Manager
2 46 (21.60%) Senior
3 20 (9.39%) Software Engineer
4 18 (8.45%) Senior Manager
5 15 (7.04%) Audit Manager
5 15 (7.04%) Quality Manager
5 15 (7.04%) Senior Audit Manager
6 14 (6.57%) Lead
6 14 (6.57%) Technical Manager
7 10 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.23%) Analyst
8 9 (4.23%) Commercial Manager
8 9 (4.23%) Commercial Project Manager
9 8 (3.76%) Technical Project Manager
10 7 (3.29%) Development Manager
10 7 (3.29%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.82%) Infrastructure Manager
11 6 (2.82%) Infrastructure Portfolio Manager
11 6 (2.82%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.16%) .NET
2 10 (4.69%) React
3 8 (3.76%) Node.js
4 6 (2.82%) RESTful
5 5 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.41%) Kafka
6 3 (1.41%) React Native
6 3 (1.41%) SOAP
7 2 (0.94%) CSS
7 2 (0.94%) DOM
7 2 (0.94%) EDI
7 2 (0.94%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.94%) HTML
7 2 (0.94%) LAMP
7 2 (0.94%) Loki
7 2 (0.94%) Pandas
7 2 (0.94%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.94%) Spring
7 2 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.04%) Hedge funds
2 14 (6.57%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.76%) Solar Power
6 7 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.82%) Life Science
7 6 (2.82%) SCADA
8 5 (2.35%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.88%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.41%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.94%) iPhone
11 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.94%) Photovoltaics
11 2 (0.94%) Replication
11 2 (0.94%) Smart City
12 1 (0.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.16%) Linux
2 9 (4.23%) Windows
3 3 (1.41%) CentOS
4 2 (0.94%) AIX
4 2 (0.94%) Android
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.70%) Project Management
2 48 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.66%) Mentoring
4 33 (15.49%) Agile
5 27 (12.68%) Software Engineering
6 26 (12.21%) Coaching
7 24 (11.27%) Creative Thinking
8 23 (10.80%) Roadmaps
9 19 (8.92%) Feasibility Study
9 19 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (7.98%) Asset Management
10 17 (7.98%) CI/CD
10 17 (7.98%) Data Management
11 16 (7.51%) Analytics
12 15 (7.04%) IT Audit
12 15 (7.04%) PRINCE2
12 15 (7.04%) Strategic Thinking
13 14 (6.57%) DevOps
14 13 (6.10%) Computer Science
14 13 (6.10%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.62%) Python
2 14 (6.57%) SQL
3 12 (5.63%) Java
4 11 (5.16%) Bicep
4 11 (5.16%) C#
5 9 (4.23%) C
5 9 (4.23%) C++
5 9 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.29%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.88%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.41%) VB
9 2 (0.94%) AWK
9 2 (0.94%) Bash
9 2 (0.94%) Korn
9 2 (0.94%) Perl
9 2 (0.94%) PHP
9 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (23.47%) Degree
2 14 (6.57%) PMP
3 11 (5.16%) PMI Certification
4 9 (4.23%) PhD
5 8 (3.76%) CISM
5 8 (3.76%) CISSP
5 8 (3.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.29%) ACCA
7 6 (2.82%) CFA
7 6 (2.82%) HNC
7 6 (2.82%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (1.88%) CISA
9 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.88%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (1.41%) HND
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.94%) NVQ Level 4
11 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) QA
2 8 (3.76%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) P3O
System Software
1 13 (6.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.94%) KVM
3 2 (0.94%) Postfix
3 2 (0.94%) Sendmail
3 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (10.80%) Terraform
2 13 (6.10%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.82%) Grafana
4 5 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) CloudForms
5 2 (0.94%) Istio
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.94%) Nagios
5 2 (0.94%) Nessus
5 2 (0.94%) vRealize
6 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.23%) Oracle
3 5 (2.35%) ANSYS
3 5 (2.35%) Google
4 4 (1.88%) NEC
4 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.88%) SYSPRO
5 3 (1.41%) Cisco
5 3 (1.41%) SAP
5 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.41%) Siemens
5 3 (1.41%) VMware
6 2 (0.94%) IBM
6 2 (0.94%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.94%) Progress
6 2 (0.94%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.47%) Aruba
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.47%) Nimble Storage