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 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 233 224
Rank change year-on-year -86 -9 -45
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 235 294 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.07% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 3.30% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 201 305
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +1.87%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £850 £869
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -4.26%
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 11,068 8,902 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 32.53% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,016 5,361 7,592
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £545
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.75% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 261 480
10th Percentile £14.34 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.46
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -8.55% +61.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -16.67% -13.51% +52.62%

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 8 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 8 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 -34 170 £560 -6.67% 77
North of England -59 23 £550 +12.24% 57
South East -29 15 £580 +1.75% 76
North West -35 13 £550 +12.24% 31
Yorkshire -40 10 £600 +26.32% 15
Midlands -46 8 £473 -14.09% 39
South West -10 5 £525 -20.00% 28
East Midlands -29 4 £473 -14.09% 19
West Midlands -43 4 £506 -22.12% 19
East of England -19 3 £460 +2.22% 36
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 5 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.13%) CMS
2 4 (1.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (10.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.96%) Endur
3 5 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.70%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.85%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.43%) Maximo
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.43%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.28%) Azure
2 40 (17.02%) AWS
3 16 (6.81%) GCP
4 11 (4.68%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.40%) GitHub
5 8 (3.40%) SaaS
5 8 (3.40%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.13%) dbt
7 5 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.13%) Serverless
8 4 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.70%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.40%) Power BI
2 7 (2.98%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.55%) Star Schema
4 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.70%) Data Vault
5 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.70%) Metadata
5 4 (1.70%) MySQL
5 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.28%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.28%) DB2
6 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.28%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.85%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (4.26%) Git
2 9 (3.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.13%) Postman
5 4 (1.70%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.70%) ERwin
5 4 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.70%) Selenium
6 3 (1.28%) GitLab
6 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.43%) Ant
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Snyk
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (41.70%) Finance
2 74 (31.49%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.66%) Front Office
4 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.53%) Banking
6 11 (4.68%) Marketing
6 11 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Publishing
9 6 (2.55%) Retail
10 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.28%) Military
12 2 (0.85%) Back Office
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
12 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (25.11%) Developer
2 52 (22.13%) Senior
3 31 (13.19%) Analyst
4 22 (9.36%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.23%) Lead
5 17 (7.23%) Software Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Architect
7 14 (5.96%) Consultant
7 14 (5.96%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.96%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (5.11%) SAP Consultant
9 11 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.83%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Implementation Analyst
11 8 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.40%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.96%) .NET
1 14 (5.96%) Next.js
1 14 (5.96%) RESTful
2 13 (5.53%) React
3 12 (5.11%) Node.js
4 11 (4.68%) CSS
4 11 (4.68%) HTML
4 11 (4.68%) REST
5 10 (4.26%) Kafka
6 9 (3.83%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.40%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.40%) PySpark
7 8 (3.40%) Spring
8 5 (2.13%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.13%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.13%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.70%) OAuth
9 4 (1.70%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.28%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (1.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.70%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.28%) CMDB
6 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.28%) IoT
6 3 (1.28%) Life Science
6 3 (1.28%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.85%) CBDC
7 2 (0.85%) Digital Currency
7 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.26%) Linux
2 9 (3.83%) Unix
3 5 (2.13%) Android
4 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Windows
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.34%) Agile
2 37 (15.74%) CI/CD
3 36 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (14.47%) Software Engineering
5 29 (12.34%) DevOps
6 26 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (10.21%) AI
7 24 (10.21%) Analytics
8 23 (9.79%) Migration
9 19 (8.09%) Fintech
10 18 (7.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (7.66%) Mentoring
10 18 (7.66%) Scrum
10 18 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (7.66%) Test Automation
11 17 (7.23%) Data Governance
11 17 (7.23%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (6.81%) Containerisation
12 16 (6.81%) Roadmaps
12 16 (6.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.74%) SQL
2 29 (12.34%) Java
3 26 (11.06%) Python
4 18 (7.66%) C#
5 17 (7.23%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.81%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.68%) C++
8 9 (3.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.70%) Scala
10 3 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.28%) Go
11 2 (0.85%) C
11 2 (0.85%) PHP
11 2 (0.85%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.79%) Degree
3 18 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) CBAP
6 2 (0.85%) MCP
6 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.26%) GDPR
2 10 (4.26%) QA
3 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.70%) NIST
5 3 (1.28%) WCAG
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.43%) EMIR
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (9.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (9.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.43%) Ansible
3 1 (0.43%) Argo
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (12.34%) SAP
2 18 (7.66%) Databricks
3 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.40%) Google
6 6 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.28%) Apple
8 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.28%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.28%) GoldenSource
8 3 (1.28%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.85%) Ariba
9 2 (0.85%) Concur
9 2 (0.85%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle
9 2 (0.85%) Progress