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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 238 249
Rank change year-on-year -101 +11 -64
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 226 280 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.09% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 3.26% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 196 298
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £495 £486 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £676 £739
90th Percentile £850 £850 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £63.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% +82.00% -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £63.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.51% +82.00% -

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 11,607 8,601 11,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.13% 33.34% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,394 5,244 7,765
10th Percentile £275 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 248 753
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.19 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.83 £24.18 £16.92
Median hourly rate £32.75 £37.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +15.21% +42.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.90 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.05 £34.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year -12.89% +8.66% +41.21%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -55 168 £575 -4.17% 62
South East -30 17 £560 - 33
North of England -81 15 £550 +12.24% 29
North West -41 11 £550 +13.99% 16
Midlands -53 10 £516 -6.14% 19
West Midlands -47 6 £516 -20.58% 10
East Midlands -22 4 £563 +2.27% 9
Yorkshire -60 4 £600 +26.32% 10
South West -24 3 £525 -14.29% 6
East of England -26 1 £488 +3.72% 6
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 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.77%) CMS
2 2 (0.88%) Camunda
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.44%) MicroStation
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (10.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (5.31%) Endur
3 4 (1.77%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.88%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.44%) Maximo
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.44%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.44%) SmartPlant
6 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.57%) Azure
2 37 (16.37%) AWS
3 17 (7.52%) GCP
4 11 (4.87%) SaaS
5 7 (3.10%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.65%) GitHub
6 6 (2.65%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.65%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.21%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.77%) dbt
8 4 (1.77%) PaaS
8 4 (1.77%) Serverless
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.33%) Cloud Run
9 3 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) Firewall
1 3 (1.33%) VPN
2 1 (0.44%) BGP
2 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.44%) IPsec
2 1 (0.44%) IPv6
2 1 (0.44%) MPLS
2 1 (0.44%) Multicast
2 1 (0.44%) OSPF
2 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.44%) SNMP
2 1 (0.44%) VoIP
2 1 (0.44%) VSAN
2 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.44%) WAN
2 1 (0.44%) Wireless
2 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.65%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.65%) Star Schema
4 4 (1.77%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.77%) Metadata
4 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.33%) Power BI
5 3 (1.33%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.88%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Flink
7 1 (0.44%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (4.42%) JIRA
2 5 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.77%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.77%) ERwin
3 4 (1.77%) Git
3 4 (1.77%) GitLab
3 4 (1.77%) Postman
3 4 (1.77%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.33%) JUnit
4 3 (1.33%) Mockito
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.88%) Gradle
5 2 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.44%) Ant
6 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (37.17%) Finance
2 63 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.08%) Banking
4 15 (6.64%) Front Office
5 14 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.54%) Marketing
7 8 (3.54%) Publishing
8 6 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.21%) Retail
10 4 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.33%) Billing
11 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Military
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (26.11%) Senior
2 54 (23.89%) Developer
3 24 (10.62%) Analyst
4 23 (10.18%) Architect
5 19 (8.41%) Lead
6 18 (7.96%) Software Engineer
7 16 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 16 (7.08%) Consultant
7 16 (7.08%) Senior Developer
8 15 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (6.19%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.87%) C# Developer
10 11 (4.87%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.87%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (4.87%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.54%) Data Migration Lead
12 8 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.54%) Senior Business Analyst
12 8 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.64%) React
2 14 (6.19%) .NET
3 13 (5.75%) Next.js
4 11 (4.87%) REST
4 11 (4.87%) Spring Boot
5 10 (4.42%) CSS
5 10 (4.42%) HTML
5 10 (4.42%) Kafka
5 10 (4.42%) RESTful
5 10 (4.42%) Spring
6 8 (3.54%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.54%) Node.js
6 8 (3.54%) OAuth
6 8 (3.54%) PySpark
7 7 (3.10%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.10%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.10%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.21%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.77%) React Native
9 4 (1.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 19 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.77%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.77%) CMDB
6 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.77%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.33%) Life Science
7 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.88%) CBDC
8 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.88%) FMCG
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.75%) Linux
2 11 (4.87%) Unix
3 5 (2.21%) Android
3 5 (2.21%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.99%) Agile
2 36 (15.93%) CI/CD
3 30 (13.27%) AI
3 30 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (12.39%) DevOps
5 27 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (11.50%) Software Engineering
7 24 (10.62%) Analytics
8 23 (10.18%) Migration
9 20 (8.85%) Roadmaps
10 19 (8.41%) Fintech
10 19 (8.41%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (7.52%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.52%) Data Migration
13 15 (6.64%) Mentoring
13 15 (6.64%) Validation
14 14 (6.19%) Data Governance
14 14 (6.19%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (6.19%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.04%) Python
2 29 (12.83%) SQL
3 25 (11.06%) Java
4 18 (7.96%) TypeScript
5 15 (6.64%) C#
6 13 (5.75%) C++
7 7 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.10%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.65%) Go
9 4 (1.77%) Scala
10 2 (0.88%) C
10 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.88%) PHP
10 2 (0.88%) Rust
11 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.44%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) Korn
11 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.50%) Degree
3 22 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) CISSP
6 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CAPM
7 1 (0.44%) CCDA
7 1 (0.44%) CCDP
7 1 (0.44%) CCIE
7 1 (0.44%) CCIP
7 1 (0.44%) CCNA
7 1 (0.44%) CCNP
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.42%) QA
3 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.10%) GDPR
5 4 (1.77%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.88%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.88%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (10.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Ansible
3 2 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.44%) Argo
4 1 (0.44%) CASB
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (11.95%) SAP
2 18 (7.96%) Databricks
3 14 (6.19%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.42%) Oracle
4 10 (4.42%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.98%) Google
6 6 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.77%) Apple
7 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.33%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.33%) Workday
9 2 (0.88%) Informatica
9 2 (0.88%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.88%) VMware
10 1 (0.44%) Ariba
10 1 (0.44%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco
10 1 (0.44%) HP
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) Juniper