Software Engineer Jobs in Energy: Demand, Pay & Skills
Part of Plutarch’s ongoing analysis of skill demand in energy hiring — last updated 5 October 2026, based on 454 tracked postings.
As of 5 October 2026, Plutarch tracked 454 unique open Software Engineer postings at energy employers. 128 postings disclosed annual pay, with a United States median of USD 188,000.
Demand for software engineers is concentrated in the United States, with meaningful volume also in India, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. The title mix skews heavily toward senior and lead-level postings, with a smaller but notable share of unleveled titles and only a thin slice of junior and executive openings. Cloud, platform and DevOps-oriented engineering themes recur frequently alongside general software engineering titles.
Open postings
Where
- United States · 174
- India · 67
- United Kingdom · 38
- Germany · 32
- France · 13
- Other or not stated · 130
Seniority
- Early career · 14
- Level not stated in title · 172
- Senior, lead, staff or manager · 263
- Leadership · 5
Disclosed pay by country · annual
| Country | Lowest to highest employer midpoint | Median | Postings stating pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD 90,000–278,000 | USD 188,000 | 128 of 167 |
Directional, not conclusive. Each figure is the midpoint of a salary range an employer disclosed in a public job posting, derived from public market sources and rounded to the nearest thousand. Samples are small, so a country appears only when at least 5 open postings disclose annual pay. At these sample sizes, do not compare one role’s median against another’s — the difference between them is smaller than the error on either.
How many employers state pay
- United States · pay stated in 135 of 167 postings we could read
- India · pay stated in 2 of 55 postings we could read
- United Kingdom · pay stated in 3 of 34 postings we could read
- Germany · pay stated in 4 of 30 postings we could read
- France · pay stated in 3 of 12 postings we could read
Counted from the same open postings as above, leaving out postings whose text we could not read for pay. Pay disclosure tracks local pay-transparency law more closely than employer policy, so a low rate is not evidence that employers here pay less.
Who is hiring
| Employer | Open postings |
|---|---|
| Crusoe | 39 |
| Siemens Energy | 24 |
| S&P Global | 20 |
| Chevron | 15 |
| ExxonMobil | 13 |
| Aurora Energy Research | 10 |
| Baker Hughes | 10 |
| Kraken Technologies | 9 |
| Kpler | 8 |
| Octopus Energy | 8 |
| TotalEnergies | 8 |
| 1KOMMA5° | 7 |
| Other employers | 283 |
How these roles are titled
The titles employers use for this role, most repeated first. Titles shown without a count appeared once.
- Senior Software Engineer · 20 postings
- Software Engineer · 18 postings
- Staff Software Engineer · 8 postings
- Principal Software Engineer · 7 postings
- Senior Platform Engineer · 5 postings
- Full Stack Developer · 4 postings
- Platform Engineer · 4 postings
- Senior Fullstack Engineer · 4 postings
- Site Reliability Engineer · 4 postings
- Software Engineering Manager · 4 postings
- Backend Developer · 3 postings
- DevOps Engineer · 3 postings
- Full-Stack Software Engineer · 3 postings
- Lead Software Engineer · 3 postings
- Senior Backend Engineer · 3 postings
What employers ask for
Skills and tools named in the text of 327 open postings we could read in full, most named first.
| Skill or tool | Postings naming it | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 179 of 327 | 60 |
| CI/CD | 165 of 327 | 59 |
| AWS | 123 of 327 | 46 |
| Git | 118 of 327 | 47 |
| DevOps | 115 of 327 | 49 |
| Kubernetes | 111 of 327 | 49 |
| Azure | 92 of 327 | 42 |
| API design | 89 of 327 | 40 |
| SQL | 87 of 327 | 39 |
| TypeScript | 79 of 327 | 42 |
| Docker | 79 of 327 | 41 |
| Terraform | 70 of 327 | 36 |
| Java | 65 of 327 | 26 |
| Agile / Scrum | 63 of 327 | 24 |
| C++ | 53 of 327 | 20 |
A skill counts when the posting names it anywhere — requirements, role description or the employer’s own introduction. A skill is shown only when at least 3 postings from at least two employers name it. Postings whose full text we did not read are left out of these counts rather than counted as asking for nothing.
Patterns in the job titles
- Site reliability and DevOps engineering
- Full stack development
- Senior-level Java development
- Senior-level Python backend development
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What the postings suggest about filling this role
With well over half of postings pitched at senior, lead, principal, staff or manager level and very few junior or entry-level openings, employers are competing heavily for experienced talent rather than building a pipeline from early-career hires, which tends to make these roles harder to fill. The concentration of demand in a few countries and the recurring need for cloud, platform and DevOps skills further narrows the pool of readily available candidates.
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