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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 101 102
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 33 23 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.95% 1.09% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.03% 3.53% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 31
10th Percentile £445 £456 £463
25th Percentile £499 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £647
90th Percentile £795 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £588 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -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 656 651 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.82% 30.88% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 406 565
10th Percentile £350 £358 £322
25th Percentile £441 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £579 £600
% change year-on-year -4.97% -3.54% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +1.85% -14.96% -37.13%

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 November 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
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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 3 (9.09%) Sketch
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.06%) Endur
2 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.03%) Orchestrade
3 1 (3.03%) SAP HCM
3 1 (3.03%) SAP PS
3 1 (3.03%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) ChatGPT
2 3 (9.09%) Figma
2 3 (9.09%) IBM Watson
2 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Run
3 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.06%) Google Gemini
3 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.06%) Vertex AI
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.03%) Firebase
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) BGP
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) IGMP
1 1 (3.03%) Multicast
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
1 1 (3.03%) OSPF
1 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Hazelcast
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.03%) Redis
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Ant
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) Gradle
1 1 (3.03%) Snyk
1 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Retail
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Back Office
5 2 (6.06%) Front Office
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Law
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Designer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) CRM Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) OpenLink Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.06%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) CSS3
3 1 (3.03%) Ehcache
3 1 (3.03%) Faiss
3 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.03%) Highcharts JS
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) HTML5
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Next.js
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) Redux
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) CMDB
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Derivative
2 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Migration
2 6 (18.18%) AI
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
3 5 (15.15%) LLM
3 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (12.12%) CRM
4 4 (12.12%) Data Governance
4 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.12%) ETL
4 4 (12.12%) ETRM
4 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.12%) User Experience
4 4 (12.12%) UX Design
4 4 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (9.09%) Content Writing
5 3 (9.09%) Conversational UI
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) C#
3 4 (12.12%) Python
4 3 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) VBA
6 1 (3.03%) C++
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.03%) CCIE
2 1 (3.03%) CCNP
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) EU AI Act
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Genesys
2 3 (9.09%) IBM
2 3 (9.09%) OpenLink
2 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.06%) Adobe
3 2 (6.06%) Alteryx
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Guidewire
3 2 (6.06%) HubSpot
3 2 (6.06%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Arista
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.03%) Talend
4 1 (3.03%) Workday