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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 84 108
Rank change year-on-year -39 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 16 36 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.73% 2.07% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 5.26% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 11
10th Percentile £456 £459 £456
25th Percentile £620 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £938 £719 £826
90th Percentile - £794 £900
Central London median daily rate £875 £625 £613
% change year-on-year +40.00% +2.04% -

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 823 684 634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.32% 39.31% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 485 386
10th Percentile £352 £350 £353
25th Percentile £463 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +1.27% -2.71%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -23.94%
75th Percentile £47.63 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £64.65 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £26.29 £25.79
% change year-on-year +42.65% +1.93% -26.31%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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%) Appian
1 1 (6.25%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Run
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
1 2 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Banking
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Front Office
3 8 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 6 (37.50%) React Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior React Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior UI Developer
3 6 (37.50%) UI Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) React
2 6 (37.50%) Redux
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (37.50%) Fixed Income
3 5 (31.25%) Equities
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (6.25%) Derivative
6 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
1 6 (37.50%) Low Latency
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) TDD
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (12.50%) Test-First Development
3 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
2 8 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) OutSystems
2 1 (6.25%) Pega
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) VMware