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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 102 108
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 37 24 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.16% 1.13% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.49% 3.66% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 32
10th Percentile £449 £458 £463
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -13.21%
75th Percentile £731 £815 £661
90th Percentile £826 £888 £771
Central London median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 674 656 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 30.93% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 408 587
10th Percentile £361 £356 £325
25th Percentile £457 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £799 £838 £832
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -25.65% -29.70%

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 17 October 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 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Chatbot
1 3 (8.11%) Sketch
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.41%) Endur
2 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.70%) Orchestrade
3 1 (2.70%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.70%) SAP PS
3 1 (2.70%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) ChatGPT
2 3 (8.11%) Figma
2 3 (8.11%) IBM Watson
2 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Run
3 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.41%) Google Gemini
3 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.41%) Vertex AI
4 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.70%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) BGP
1 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) IGMP
1 1 (2.70%) Multicast
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
1 1 (2.70%) OSPF
1 1 (2.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.70%) Redis
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Ant
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Gradle
1 1 (2.70%) Snyk
1 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (48.65%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Back Office
4 5 (13.51%) Front Office
5 4 (10.81%) Retail
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Analyst
3 9 (24.32%) Business Analyst
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Back Office Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Consultant
6 3 (8.11%) Designer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) CRM Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Endur Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) OpenLink Architect
7 2 (5.41%) OpenLink Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.70%) Blazor
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) CSS3
3 1 (2.70%) Ehcache
3 1 (2.70%) Faiss
3 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) HTML5
3 1 (2.70%) JWT
3 1 (2.70%) LangChain
3 1 (2.70%) Next.js
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.70%) WPF
3 1 (2.70%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.70%) CMDB
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Derivative
2 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) AI
1 6 (16.22%) Migration
1 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (13.51%) Agile
2 5 (13.51%) ETRM
2 5 (13.51%) LLM
2 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
3 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (10.81%) CRM
3 4 (10.81%) Data Governance
3 4 (10.81%) ETL
3 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.81%) User Experience
3 4 (10.81%) UX Design
3 4 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.11%) Data Migration
4 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) VBA
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) CCIE
2 1 (2.70%) CCNP
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.81%) OpenLink
2 3 (8.11%) Genesys
2 3 (8.11%) IBM
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Adobe
3 2 (5.41%) Alteryx
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Guidewire
3 2 (5.41%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Arista
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.70%) Talend