Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends 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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 234 238
Rank change year-on-year -118 +4 -56
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 216 283 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.06% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 3.23% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 191 300
10th Percentile £414 £410 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £851 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +94.29% -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +94.29% -

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 11,400 8,750 11,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 32.89% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,279 5,259 7,721
10th Percentile £280 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 245 670
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.66
Median hourly rate £30.30 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.64 £67.02 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.55 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.56% - +55.66%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Greenfield Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in England

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in England

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Greenfield Project

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 29 January 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 -46 160 £575 -4.17% 75
North of England -76 17 £550 +12.24% 43
South East -35 14 £536 -5.92% 56
North West -35 11 £550 +12.24% 24
Midlands -61 7 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire -51 6 £600 +26.32% 13
South West -16 4 £525 -14.29% 22
West Midlands -38 4 £506 -22.12% 20
East Midlands -29 3 £563 +2.27% 19
East of England -15 2 £460 -2.13% 17
Greenfield Project
UK

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.39%) CMS
3 2 (0.93%) Camunda
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (5.56%) Endur
3 4 (1.85%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.46%) Maximo
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.46%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.46%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.46%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.30%) Azure
2 37 (17.13%) AWS
3 16 (7.41%) GCP
4 9 (4.17%) SaaS
5 7 (3.24%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.78%) GitHub
6 6 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 6 (2.78%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.31%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.31%) Serverless
8 4 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.85%) dbt
8 4 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.39%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) VPN
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.78%) Star Schema
3 4 (1.85%) Data Vault
3 4 (1.85%) Metadata
3 4 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.85%) Power BI
3 4 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.39%) MySQL
4 3 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.39%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.93%) ClickHouse
5 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.93%) DB2
5 2 (0.93%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 9 (4.17%) JIRA
2 6 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.85%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.85%) ERwin
3 4 (1.85%) Git
3 4 (1.85%) GitLab
3 4 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.39%) JUnit
4 3 (1.39%) Mockito
4 3 (1.39%) Postman
4 3 (1.39%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Gradle
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.46%) Ant
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) Snyk
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (38.43%) Finance
2 65 (30.09%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.41%) Banking
4 15 (6.94%) Front Office
5 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Marketing
7 8 (3.70%) Publishing
8 6 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.31%) Retail
10 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.39%) Billing
11 3 (1.39%) Military
12 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 56 (25.93%) Senior
2 55 (25.46%) Developer
3 23 (10.65%) Analyst
4 17 (7.87%) Lead
4 17 (7.87%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.41%) Architect
5 16 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 16 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.48%) Consultant
7 14 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.09%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.09%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (4.63%) C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.63%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (3.24%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.48%) Next.js
2 13 (6.02%) React
3 12 (5.56%) .NET
4 11 (5.09%) Kafka
4 11 (5.09%) RESTful
4 11 (5.09%) Spring Boot
5 10 (4.63%) CSS
5 10 (4.63%) HTML
5 10 (4.63%) REST
5 10 (4.63%) Spring
6 9 (4.17%) Node.js
6 9 (4.17%) PySpark
7 8 (3.70%) OAuth
8 7 (3.24%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.24%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.24%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.78%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.31%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (1.85%) React Native
11 4 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.85%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.39%) CMDB
6 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.39%) Life Science
6 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.93%) CBDC
7 2 (0.93%) Digital Currency
7 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.93%) IoT
7 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.09%) Linux
2 10 (4.63%) Unix
3 5 (2.31%) Android
3 5 (2.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.78%) Agile
2 39 (18.06%) CI/CD
3 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (12.50%) AI
4 27 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 25 (11.57%) DevOps
5 25 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (10.19%) Analytics
7 19 (8.80%) Test Automation
8 18 (8.33%) Fintech
8 18 (8.33%) Migration
8 18 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (7.87%) Containerisation
9 17 (7.87%) Roadmaps
10 15 (6.94%) Data Governance
10 15 (6.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (6.48%) Mentoring
11 14 (6.48%) Scrum
11 14 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (6.02%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.28%) SQL
2 31 (14.35%) Python
3 27 (12.50%) Java
4 18 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 14 (6.48%) C#
6 12 (5.56%) C++
7 10 (4.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.24%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.78%) Go
10 4 (1.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.93%) C
11 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.46%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.46%) Swift
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.11%) Degree
3 20 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.93%) CISSP
6 2 (0.93%) MCP
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) CBAP
7 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.09%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
3 7 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.85%) NIST
5 3 (1.39%) WCAG
6 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.93%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.46%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (11.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.70%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Grafana
3 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Argo
4 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) SAP
2 19 (8.80%) Databricks
3 13 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.17%) Google
4 9 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.70%) Oracle
6 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.85%) Apple
7 4 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.39%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.93%) Progress
9 2 (0.93%) Workday
10 1 (0.46%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.46%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.46%) Roku
10 1 (0.46%) Talend
10 1 (0.46%) VMware