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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 232 251
Rank change year-on-year -111 +19 -70
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 231 284 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.10% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 3.29% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 201 303
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £480 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £740
90th Percentile £850 £850 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +94.29% -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% +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 11,890 8,645 11,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.03% 33.44% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 5,326 7,698
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £660
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 590 260 761
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.83 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £36.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.80 £83.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.55% +1.25% +44.54%

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 21 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 21 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 -57 173 £569 -5.21% 55
South East -29 17 £560 - 36
North of England -83 15 £550 +12.24% 41
North West -45 11 £550 +13.99% 22
Midlands -56 10 £516 -6.14% 21
West Midlands -54 6 £516 -20.58% 13
East Midlands -25 4 £563 +2.27% 8
Yorkshire -65 4 £600 +26.32% 11
South West -24 3 £525 -10.26% 13
East of England -25 1 £488 +3.72% 13
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 (2.16%) CMS
2 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.87%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (9.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.76%) Endur
3 4 (1.73%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.87%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
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%) SmartPlant
6 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.08%) Azure
2 37 (16.02%) AWS
3 16 (6.93%) GCP
4 10 (4.33%) SaaS
5 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.60%) GitHub
6 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.73%) dbt
8 4 (1.73%) PaaS
8 4 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Serverless
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Firewall
1 3 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.43%) BGP
2 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.43%) IPsec
2 1 (0.43%) IPv6
2 1 (0.43%) MPLS
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) MVNO
2 1 (0.43%) OSPF
2 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.43%) SNMP
2 1 (0.43%) VoIP
2 1 (0.43%) VSAN
2 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.43%) Wireless
2 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.60%) Star Schema
4 4 (1.73%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.73%) Metadata
4 4 (1.73%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.30%) Power BI
5 3 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.87%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.43%) Flink
7 1 (0.43%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (4.76%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.16%) Postman
3 4 (1.73%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.73%) ERwin
3 4 (1.73%) Git
3 4 (1.73%) GitLab
3 4 (1.73%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.30%) JUnit
4 3 (1.30%) Mockito
5 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.87%) Gradle
5 2 (0.87%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Ant
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (35.93%) Finance
2 65 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.49%) Banking
3 15 (6.49%) Front Office
3 15 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.90%) Marketing
4 9 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.46%) Publishing
6 6 (2.60%) Retail
7 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Military
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Games
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (25.54%) Senior
2 55 (23.81%) Developer
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 24 (10.39%) Architect
5 19 (8.23%) Lead
6 18 (7.79%) Consultant
6 18 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.36%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) C# Developer
12 11 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
12 11 (4.76%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 9 (3.90%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.46%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.93%) React
2 15 (6.49%) .NET
3 12 (5.19%) Next.js
4 11 (4.76%) CSS
4 11 (4.76%) HTML
4 11 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 10 (4.33%) Kafka
5 10 (4.33%) REST
5 10 (4.33%) RESTful
5 10 (4.33%) Spring
6 9 (3.90%) .NET Core
7 8 (3.46%) .NET Framework
7 8 (3.46%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.46%) Node.js
7 8 (3.46%) OAuth
7 8 (3.46%) PySpark
8 7 (3.03%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.73%) React Native
9 4 (1.73%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (1.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.73%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.73%) CMDB
6 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.73%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.30%) Life Science
7 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.87%) CBDC
8 2 (0.87%) CCTV
8 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.87%) FMCG
8 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Linux
2 11 (4.76%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Android
3 5 (2.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.41%) Agile
2 35 (15.15%) CI/CD
3 32 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (12.99%) DevOps
5 29 (12.55%) AI
6 28 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (11.26%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.82%) Analytics
9 24 (10.39%) Migration
10 23 (9.96%) Roadmaps
11 20 (8.66%) Fintech
11 20 (8.66%) Test Automation
12 18 (7.79%) Data Migration
12 18 (7.79%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (7.79%) Validation
13 16 (6.93%) Containerisation
13 16 (6.93%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (6.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.15%) Python
2 29 (12.55%) SQL
3 25 (10.82%) Java
4 18 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.93%) C#
6 13 (5.63%) C++
7 7 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.60%) Go
8 6 (2.60%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.73%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) C
10 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 2 (0.87%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.43%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.26%) Degree
3 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.43%) CAPM
7 1 (0.43%) CCDA
7 1 (0.43%) CCDP
7 1 (0.43%) CCIE
7 1 (0.43%) CCIP
7 1 (0.43%) CCNA
7 1 (0.43%) CCNP
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.33%) QA
3 6 (2.60%) GDPR
3 6 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 3 (1.30%) PMO
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) PSD2
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (10.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Grafana
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Argo
4 1 (0.43%) CASB
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (11.69%) SAP
2 18 (7.79%) Databricks
3 14 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.76%) Oracle
4 11 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.90%) Google
6 6 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.73%) Apple
8 3 (1.30%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.30%) Workday
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) Ariba
10 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) IBM
10 1 (0.43%) Juniper