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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 95 110
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 12 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 1.33% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 3.88% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile £487 £475 £500
25th Percentile £552 £538 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -2.95%
75th Percentile £663 £813 £613
90th Percentile £790 £856 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -

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 694 618 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.67% 34.33% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 404 495
10th Percentile £353 £375 £268
25th Percentile £450 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.43% -6.00%
75th Percentile £676 £697 £705
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £19.39 - £12.75
25th Percentile £23.66 - £15.94
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +40.91% -45.68%
75th Percentile £50.83 - £47.63
90th Percentile £66.53 - £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +43.02% -40.00%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
1 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
1 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Payroll Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) Jinja
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) AI
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Data Science
2 2 (16.67%) ETL
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (16.67%) User Experience
2 2 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Informatica
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (8.33%) Talend
1 1 (8.33%) Workday