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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 27 26 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.50% 1.22% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.84% 3.92% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 26
10th Percentile £436 £483 £485
25th Percentile £463 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £756 £815 £625
90th Percentile £835 £855 £781
Central London median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -3.03%

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 704 664 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.22% 31.07% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 422 540
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £434 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -0.58% -
75th Percentile £688 £722 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £826
Central London median daily rate £550 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £19.24 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +124.00% -50.98%
75th Percentile £41.94 £76.13 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% +12.50% -52.48%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (7.41%) Endur
2 1 (3.70%) Orchestrade
2 1 (3.70%) SAP HCM
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Run
3 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.41%) Google Gemini
3 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
3 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
3 2 (7.41%) Vertex AI
4 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Collibra
4 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) BGP
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) IGMP
1 1 (3.70%) Multicast
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) OSPF
1 1 (3.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Hazelcast
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Ant
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Gradle
1 1 (3.70%) Snyk
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Front Office
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Endur Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) OpenLink Architect
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) CSS3
2 1 (3.70%) Ehcache
2 1 (3.70%) Faiss
2 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.70%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML5
2 1 (3.70%) JWT
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) LangChain
2 1 (3.70%) Next.js
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
2 1 (3.70%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Derivative
2 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Migration
2 5 (18.52%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
3 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
3 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
3 4 (14.81%) ETRM
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.11%) AI
4 3 (11.11%) Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.11%) Data Privacy
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) ETL
4 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) Use Case
4 3 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) C#
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) CCIE
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) OpenLink
3 2 (7.41%) Adobe
3 2 (7.41%) Alteryx
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Guidewire
3 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Arista
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.70%) Murex
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.70%) Workday