Greenfield Project Contracts in England

Greenfield Project
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 268 205
Rank change year-on-year -20 -63 -42
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 220 329 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.88% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 2.87% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 278 464
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.91% -1.88%
75th Percentile £725 £723 £725
90th Percentile £850 £801 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.13% -
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -39.13% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Greenfield Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Greenfield Project in England

Greenfield Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project in England.

Daily rate trend for Greenfield Project in England

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in England

Greenfield Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project in England.

Hourly rate trend for Greenfield Project in England

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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 -16 161 £601 -3.80% 286
North of England -14 28 £525 +7.14% 110
North West -19 14 £438 -10.71% 65
Midlands +17 10 £450 -23.08% 29
South East +29 8 £513 -10.87% 39
North East +7 7 £600 -4.00% 14
Yorkshire +5 7 £513 +13.89% 31
South West +29 5 £585 +11.43% 18
East Midlands +5 5 £450 -28.00% 6
East of England +25 4 £488 -32.76% 14
West Midlands +8 4 £400 -20.00% 22
Greenfield Project
UK

Greenfield Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.36%) CMS
2 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.36%) Sketch
3 1 (0.45%) Notion
Business Applications
1 23 (10.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.27%) SAP PS
4 4 (1.82%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.82%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.82%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.36%) Endur
6 2 (0.91%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.91%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.91%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.45%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.45%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.45%) Primavera
7 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.45%) SAP SRM
7 1 (0.45%) Shopify
7 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (25.91%) AWS
2 45 (20.45%) Azure
3 24 (10.91%) Serverless
4 21 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (7.73%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.36%) GCP
7 11 (5.00%) GitHub
8 10 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.09%) Figma
10 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.64%) SaaS
11 7 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.18%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.18%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.45%) BGP
2 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.45%) IGMP
2 1 (0.45%) Multicast
2 1 (0.45%) Network Security
2 1 (0.45%) OSPF
2 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.00%) Power BI
2 10 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.73%) Tableau
6 5 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.91%) Big Data
9 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.91%) Power Query
9 2 (0.91%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.82%) Postman
2 4 (1.82%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.91%) GitLab
4 2 (0.91%) JMeter
4 2 (0.91%) Selenium
4 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.45%) Ant
5 1 (0.45%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.45%) Gradle
5 1 (0.45%) Grunt
5 1 (0.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.45%) MLflow
5 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 74 (33.64%) Finance
2 49 (22.27%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.45%) Banking
4 30 (13.64%) Front Office
5 24 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.73%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.09%) Retail
8 7 (3.18%) Back Office
9 6 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.73%) Law
10 5 (2.27%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.82%) Automotive
11 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.36%) Marketing
12 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.45%) Legal
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (31.36%) Developer
2 38 (17.27%) Senior
3 28 (12.73%) Lead
4 24 (10.91%) Analyst
4 24 (10.91%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.55%) Architect
5 21 (9.55%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.82%) Consultant
7 13 (5.91%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.45%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) .NET Developer
9 8 (3.64%) AWS Developer
9 8 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) React Developer
10 7 (3.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.18%) SAP Architect
10 7 (3.18%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.64%) React
2 29 (13.18%) .NET
3 22 (10.00%) Node.js
4 14 (6.36%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.64%) Kafka
5 8 (3.64%) Redux
6 6 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (2.73%) CSS
6 6 (2.73%) HTML
6 6 (2.73%) Next.js
6 6 (2.73%) Play Framework
6 6 (2.73%) REST
7 5 (2.27%) JSON
7 5 (2.27%) OpenFin
7 5 (2.27%) SOAP
8 4 (1.82%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.82%) HATEOAS
8 4 (1.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (1.82%) WCF
8 4 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.91%) FMCG
6 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.91%) Market Risk
6 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.45%) Derivative
7 1 (0.45%) NHS
7 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.82%) Windows
2 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.36%) Agile
2 40 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 37 (16.82%) DevOps
4 31 (14.09%) Software Engineering
5 21 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (8.64%) Migration
7 18 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (8.18%) Test Automation
8 17 (7.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (7.73%) Scrum
9 16 (7.27%) Analytics
10 14 (6.36%) Investment Management
11 13 (5.91%) LLM
12 12 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (5.00%) Front End Development
13 11 (5.00%) Kanban
13 11 (5.00%) Machine Learning
13 11 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.64%) Python
2 42 (19.09%) SQL
3 38 (17.27%) JavaScript
4 36 (16.36%) TypeScript
5 33 (15.00%) C#
6 24 (10.91%) Java
7 11 (5.00%) Scala
8 5 (2.27%) Go
8 5 (2.27%) VBA
9 3 (1.36%) Bash
9 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.36%) Swift
10 2 (0.91%) Clojure
10 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.91%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.91%) Degree
4 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) CCIE
7 1 (0.45%) CCNP
7 1 (0.45%) CFA
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) QA
2 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) Basel II
3 2 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) Basel III
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) MiFID
4 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
2 1 (0.45%) IAG
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (10.91%) Terraform
2 14 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.27%) Ansible
4 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (12.27%) SAP
2 23 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.91%) Databricks
4 5 (2.27%) Oracle
4 5 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.82%) Google
6 3 (1.36%) Genesys
6 3 (1.36%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) Ariba
7 2 (0.91%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.91%) Concur
7 2 (0.91%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.91%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.91%) Nintex
7 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.91%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.91%) Tenable
8 1 (0.45%) Arista
8 1 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.45%) Workday