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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 224 223
Rank change year-on-year -86 -1 -46
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 246 321 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.10% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 3.42% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 222 332
10th Percentile £414 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £490 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £738
90th Percentile £850 £800 £867
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 -

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 11,125 9,399 12,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.77% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,689 8,167
10th Percentile £283 £285 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £739 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.77% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 284 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.85 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.44 £20.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -15.02% +25.24%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.11 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -48 174 £569 -5.21% 70
North of England -45 31 £575 +17.35% 65
South East -21 15 £580 - 99
Yorkshire -31 15 £600 +26.32% 22
North West -37 15 £550 +12.24% 39
Midlands -49 8 £473 -14.09% 53
South West -10 5 £525 -22.22% 31
East Midlands -20 4 £473 -14.09% 24
West Midlands -37 4 £506 -22.12% 27
East of England -20 3 £460 +2.22% 33
North East - 1 £600 - 4
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 6 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.03%) CMS
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (12.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.69%) Endur
3 5 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.03%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.81%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.41%) Maximo
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.41%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.41%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.54%) Azure
2 42 (17.07%) AWS
3 17 (6.91%) GCP
4 10 (4.07%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.66%) SaaS
5 9 (3.66%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.85%) GitHub
7 6 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (2.44%) Serverless
8 5 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (2.03%) dbt
9 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.63%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.22%) Cloud Run
10 3 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.41%) IGMP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) Multicast
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.85%) MongoDB
1 7 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (2.85%) Power BI
2 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.03%) Star Schema
4 4 (1.63%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.63%) Metadata
4 4 (1.63%) MySQL
4 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.22%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.22%) DB2
5 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.22%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (5.28%) Git
2 9 (3.66%) JIRA
3 6 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.03%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.03%) Postman
5 4 (1.63%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.63%) ERwin
5 4 (1.63%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.63%) Selenium
6 3 (1.22%) GitLab
6 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) Ant
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) JUnit
8 1 (0.41%) Mockito
8 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (41.46%) Finance
2 75 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.72%) Front Office
4 14 (5.69%) Banking
5 12 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.07%) Marketing
8 7 (2.85%) Retail
9 6 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.63%) Publishing
11 3 (1.22%) Back Office
11 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.22%) Military
12 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (28.46%) Developer
2 43 (17.48%) Senior
3 32 (13.01%) Analyst
4 23 (9.35%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.13%) Architect
5 20 (8.13%) Lead
6 16 (6.50%) Consultant
7 15 (6.10%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.69%) SAP Consultant
8 14 (5.69%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.69%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.25%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.25%) Endur Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) Endur Business Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) Implementation Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) OpenLink Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.13%) .NET
2 19 (7.72%) React
3 15 (6.10%) RESTful
4 14 (5.69%) Node.js
4 14 (5.69%) REST
5 13 (5.28%) Next.js
6 11 (4.47%) CSS
6 11 (4.47%) HTML
6 11 (4.47%) Kafka
7 7 (2.85%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.85%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.85%) PySpark
7 7 (2.85%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.44%) Spring
9 5 (2.03%) Gherkin
9 5 (2.03%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (1.63%) HATEOAS
10 4 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.63%) Vue
11 3 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.03%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.22%) CMDB
7 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.22%) IoT
7 3 (1.22%) Life Science
7 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) CBDC
8 2 (0.81%) Digital Currency
8 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.44%) Linux
2 5 (2.03%) Unix
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.93%) Agile
2 44 (17.89%) CI/CD
3 38 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (13.82%) DevOps
4 34 (13.82%) Software Engineering
5 27 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.57%) Migration
7 23 (9.35%) AI
7 23 (9.35%) Analytics
8 22 (8.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (8.94%) Scrum
9 19 (7.72%) Fintech
9 19 (7.72%) Kanban
10 18 (7.32%) Microservices
10 18 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (6.91%) Containerisation
11 17 (6.91%) Data Governance
11 17 (6.91%) Use Case
11 17 (6.91%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (6.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.85%) SQL
2 34 (13.82%) Java
3 33 (13.41%) Python
4 27 (10.98%) C#
5 22 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.66%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.25%) C++
9 3 (1.22%) Go
9 3 (1.22%) Scala
10 2 (0.81%) C
10 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.81%) PHP
10 2 (0.81%) Rust
11 1 (0.41%) Groovy
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.13%) Degree
3 16 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.81%) CBAP
8 2 (0.81%) MCP
8 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CCIE
9 1 (0.41%) CCNP
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.07%) GDPR
2 10 (4.07%) QA
3 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.63%) NIST
5 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.22%) WCAG
6 2 (0.81%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.41%) EMIR
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (9.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.10%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Argo
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (13.82%) SAP
2 17 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.50%) Databricks
4 9 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.44%) Google
7 4 (1.63%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.22%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.22%) Concur
8 3 (1.22%) GoldenSource
8 3 (1.22%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.81%) Adobe
9 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.81%) Ariba
9 2 (0.81%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.81%) Informatica
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle
9 2 (0.81%) Progress