Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Greenfield Project
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 100 109
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 12 22 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 1.27% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 3.66% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 8
10th Percentile £435 £523 £514
25th Percentile £563 £613 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £675 £713
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £928 £775 £900
90th Percentile £938 £849 £1,058
Central London median daily rate £613 £675 £750
% change year-on-year -9.19% -10.00% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Greenfield Project falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 729 601 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.86% 34.62% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 376 465
10th Percentile £370 £357 £269
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £23.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.08 £26.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.85 £65.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.20 £36.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -34.29%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Greenfield Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the City of London

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the City of London

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Greenfield Project within the City of London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Greenfield Project
Central London

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 3 (25.00%) Front Office
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) React Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior UI Developer
3 2 (16.67%) UI Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile UI Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile UI/UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Redux
3 1 (8.33%) Jinja
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) AI
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) User Research
2 2 (16.67%) UX Design
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) SAP