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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 249 218
Rank change year-on-year -49 -31 -38
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 233 315 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.96% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 3.10% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 237 383
10th Percentile £424 £425 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £558
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.04% -7.08%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £700
90th Percentile £843 £780 £788
UK median daily rate £561 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% +5.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £57.36 £39.50
25th Percentile - £61.35 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.26% -
75th Percentile - £71.43 £68.75
90th Percentile - £73.49 £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +18.26% -

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 9,986 10,162 13,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.91% 30.84% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,279 6,263 9,542
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £790
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 413 414
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 -16 174 £625 +4.17% 81
North of England -45 20 £501 +2.24% 46
South East -1 13 £488 -13.58% 62
Yorkshire -7 11 £625 +47.06% 4
Midlands -20 11 £450 -18.18% 16
East Midlands -6 8 £450 -18.18% 5
North West -36 8 £450 -8.16% 35
South West +15 4 £588 +6.82% 1
East of England +1 4 £460 -45.88% 9
West Midlands -12 3 £600 +26.32% 11
North East -1 1 £600 -4.00% 7
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 (2.15%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.15%) CMS
2 4 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (10.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.00%) SAP PS
3 6 (2.58%) Endur
4 5 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.15%) SAP HCM
5 3 (1.29%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.29%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.86%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.43%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.43%) Primavera
7 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.43%) SAP SRM
7 1 (0.43%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.32%) AWS
2 49 (21.03%) Azure
3 18 (7.73%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.87%) GCP
5 12 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (5.15%) Serverless
6 10 (4.29%) GitHub
6 10 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 9 (3.86%) SaaS
8 7 (3.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.00%) dbt
8 7 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.58%) Figma
10 5 (2.15%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) BGP
2 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.43%) IGMP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) OSPF
2 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.01%) Power BI
2 11 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.00%) Tableau
6 6 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.29%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.29%) DB2
9 3 (1.29%) Metadata
9 3 (1.29%) MySQL
9 3 (1.29%) Power Query
10 2 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Git
2 7 (3.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.00%) Postman
3 6 (2.58%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.58%) JIRA
4 5 (2.15%) Selenium
4 5 (2.15%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.86%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.86%) ERwin
7 2 (0.86%) GitLab
7 2 (0.86%) JMeter
7 2 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.43%) MLflow
8 1 (0.43%) Snyk
8 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 58 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.16%) Banking
4 24 (10.30%) Front Office
5 22 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.86%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.86%) Retail
8 8 (3.43%) Back Office
9 7 (3.00%) Marketing
10 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.29%) Law
11 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Aviation
12 2 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (30.90%) Developer
2 29 (12.45%) Senior
3 27 (11.59%) Analyst
4 24 (10.30%) Architect
5 23 (9.87%) Lead
6 17 (7.30%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.87%) Business Analyst
8 15 (6.44%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.44%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.58%) Consultant
10 10 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.86%) SAP Architect
11 9 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Python Developer
13 7 (3.00%) .NET Developer
13 7 (3.00%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.00%) React Developer
13 7 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
14 6 (2.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.88%) React
2 26 (11.16%) .NET
3 16 (6.87%) Node.js
4 13 (5.58%) .NET Core
5 10 (4.29%) CSS
5 10 (4.29%) HTML
5 10 (4.29%) RESTful
6 9 (3.86%) REST
7 8 (3.43%) Kafka
7 8 (3.43%) Next.js
8 6 (2.58%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.58%) Redux
8 6 (2.58%) SOAP
9 5 (2.15%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.72%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.72%) HATEOAS
10 4 (1.72%) jQuery
11 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.29%) SAP PI
11 3 (1.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.72%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.29%) FMCG
7 3 (1.29%) IoT
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.86%) PMI
8 2 (0.86%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.43%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Android
1 3 (1.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.04%) Agile
2 44 (18.88%) CI/CD
3 42 (18.03%) DevOps
4 35 (15.02%) Software Engineering
5 27 (11.59%) Scrum
6 26 (11.16%) Migration
7 24 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (9.44%) Test Automation
9 21 (9.01%) Analytics
9 21 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (9.01%) Kanban
9 21 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (6.87%) Data Governance
11 16 (6.87%) Data Modelling
11 16 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (6.87%) Microservices
12 15 (6.44%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.31%) Python
2 44 (18.88%) SQL
3 35 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 34 (14.59%) C#
5 31 (13.30%) Java
6 27 (11.59%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.43%) Scala
8 6 (2.58%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.15%) Go
10 3 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.29%) VBA
11 2 (0.86%) C++
11 2 (0.86%) R
11 2 (0.86%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.58%) Degree
4 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.86%) CBAP
7 2 (0.86%) MCP
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CCIE
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) CFA
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
8 1 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) QA
2 6 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Basel III
6 1 (0.43%) EMIR
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Firmware
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.87%) Terraform
2 17 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Ansible
3 2 (0.86%) Grafana
3 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (11.16%) SAP
2 22 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.44%) Databricks
4 9 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.15%) Google
6 4 (1.72%) Guidewire
6 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.72%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.29%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.29%) Genesys
7 3 (1.29%) GoldenSource
7 3 (1.29%) IBM
8 2 (0.86%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.86%) Ariba
8 2 (0.86%) Concur
8 2 (0.86%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.86%) Nintex
8 2 (0.86%) Progress
8 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow