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 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 16 32 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.67% 1.71% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 4.68% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 9
10th Percentile £456 £453 £450
25th Percentile £563 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +23.97%
75th Percentile £938 £713 £838
90th Percentile - £770 £900
Central London median daily rate £875 £613 £700
% change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +15.23%

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 793 684 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.28% 36.52% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 454 424
10th Percentile £363 £341 £350
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.12% -6.83%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £807 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.06% +1.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +14.81% -27.84%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £25.40
% change year-on-year +32.58% +11.36% -27.43%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) dbt
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Front Office
3 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) Senior
3 8 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
4 7 (43.75%) React Developer
4 7 (43.75%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (43.75%) Senior React Developer
4 7 (43.75%) Senior UI Developer
4 7 (43.75%) UI Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Mobile Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Mobile UI Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Mobile UI/UX Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Mobile UX Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) React
2 7 (43.75%) Redux
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Jinja
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (43.75%) Fixed Income
3 5 (31.25%) Equities
4 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Derivative
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Electronic Trading
1 7 (43.75%) Low Latency
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (12.50%) AI
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) User Experience
3 2 (12.50%) UX Design
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.25%) ETL
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (43.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
1 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) VMware