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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 96 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -19
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 14 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.59% 1.24% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 3.64% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile £499 £519 £447
25th Percentile £563 £525 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £650 £545
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +19.27% -10.29%
75th Percentile £938 £716 £853
90th Percentile - £775 £900
Central London median daily rate £875 £650 £550
% change year-on-year +34.62% +18.18% -10.20%

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 744 577 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.59% 34.16% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 364 444
10th Percentile £366 £359 £268
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £699 £711 £696
90th Percentile £797 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -1.74% +2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.71 £20.63 £13.56
Median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% +32.50% -61.17%
75th Percentile £55.10 £48.25 £26.25
90th Percentile £66.18 £79.30 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £29.09 £26.45 £23.00
% change year-on-year +9.97% +15.00% -38.53%

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 5 June 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
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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 5 (35.71%) Front Office
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) React Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior React Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior UI Developer
3 4 (28.57%) UI Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Development Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 4 (28.57%) Redux
3 1 (7.14%) Jinja
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (14.29%) Equities
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Derivative
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 4 (28.57%) Electronic Trading
1 4 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (21.43%) User Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) AI
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) User Research
3 2 (14.29%) UX Design
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
1 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) VMware