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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 109 97
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 +30
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 36 19 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.06% 0.91% 1.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.45% 3.04% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 42
10th Percentile £458 £461 £463
25th Percentile £513 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £603
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.56% -7.31%
75th Percentile £725 £821 £684
90th Percentile £800 £894 £775
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £610
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.74% -4.31%
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 661 626 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.75% 30.14% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 385 665
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £456 £484 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £738
90th Percentile £809 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.88
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £23.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -23.94% -27.55%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £44.99
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £57.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% -26.31% -28.57%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Greenfield Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Greenfield Project 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 15 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 3 (8.33%) Sketch
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (5.56%) Endur
4 1 (2.78%) Orchestrade
4 1 (2.78%) SAP HCM
4 1 (2.78%) SAP MDG
4 1 (2.78%) SAP MM
4 1 (2.78%) SAP PS
4 1 (2.78%) SAP SRM
4 1 (2.78%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) ChatGPT
2 3 (8.33%) Figma
2 3 (8.33%) GitHub
2 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (8.33%) IBM Watson
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Run
3 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) Google Gemini
3 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.56%) Vertex AI
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.78%) Firebase
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) BGP
1 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) IGMP
1 1 (2.78%) Multicast
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) OSPF
1 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.78%) Redis
3 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Ant
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Gradle
1 1 (2.78%) Snyk
1 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Back Office
4 5 (13.89%) Front Office
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Back Office Business Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) Designer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) CRM Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) CRM Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Endur Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) OpenLink Architect
5 2 (5.56%) OpenLink Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.56%) React
3 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.78%) Blazor
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) Ehcache
3 1 (2.78%) Highcharts JS
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) HTML5
3 1 (2.78%) Jest
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Next.js
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.78%) Redux
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.78%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Derivative
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Agile
1 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (13.89%) ETRM
2 5 (13.89%) LLM
2 5 (13.89%) Migration
3 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 4 (11.11%) CRM
3 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 4 (11.11%) User Experience
3 4 (11.11%) UX Design
3 4 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (8.33%) Content Writing
4 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.33%) Conversational UI
4 3 (8.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (8.33%) Data Privacy
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) C#
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Java
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.56%) VBA
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) Go
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) CCIE
2 1 (2.78%) CCNP
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.11%) OpenLink
2 3 (8.33%) Genesys
2 3 (8.33%) IBM
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.33%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe
3 2 (5.56%) Alteryx
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Guidewire
3 2 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Arista
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) F5
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.78%) Murex
4 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds