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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 95 94
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 22 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.20% 1.30% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.20% 4.17% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 22
10th Percentile £448 £483 £500
25th Percentile £488 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £622
90th Percentile £885 £855 £783
Central London median daily rate £700 £595 £600
% change year-on-year +17.65% -0.83% -

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 688 624 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.45% 31.23% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 389 513
10th Percentile £350 £373 £300
25th Percentile £441 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £710 £719
90th Percentile £788 £825 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £22.18 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £38.69 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.85 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (9.09%) Endur
2 1 (4.55%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Run
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.09%) Google Gemini
3 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 2 (9.09%) Vertex AI
4 1 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.55%) Collibra
4 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Hazelcast
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Ant
1 1 (4.55%) Snyk
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Front Office
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Endur Architect
4 2 (9.09%) OpenLink Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Business Engagement Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (4.55%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS3
2 1 (4.55%) Ehcache
2 1 (4.55%) Faiss
2 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.55%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) LangChain
2 1 (4.55%) Next.js
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (4.55%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.55%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
1 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.55%) CMDB
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
1 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Agile
1 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) AI
4 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Data Privacy
4 3 (13.64%) ETRM
4 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) User Stories
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Use Case
5 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) MCP
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) OpenLink
2 2 (9.09%) Adobe
2 2 (9.09%) Alteryx
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Murex
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) Workday