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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 231 217
Rank change year-on-year -70 -14 -37
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 251 327 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.07% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 3.34% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 231 350
10th Percentile £417 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £490 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £725
90th Percentile £850 £800 £850
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 - £63.70 -

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 11,244 9,786 12,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.14% 32.01% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,081 5,885 8,344
10th Percentile £285 £294 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.75% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 308 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.27 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -29.97% -10.42% +25.26%
75th Percentile £57.88 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.19% -18.82% +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 6 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 6 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 -34 182 £575 -4.17% 70
North of England -49 30 £588 +19.90% 44
South East -21 16 £580 +0.87% 67
Yorkshire -25 15 £600 +26.32% 12
North West -38 14 £550 +12.24% 29
Midlands -46 7 £473 -14.09% 28
East of England -10 4 £460 +2.22% 18
East Midlands -18 4 £473 -14.09% 10
South West -7 3 £425 -37.04% 14
West Midlands -33 3 £506 -22.12% 17
North East - 1 £600 - 3
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 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.99%) CMS
3 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (12.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.58%) Endur
3 5 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.99%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.80%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.40%) Maximo
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.40%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.40%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.51%) Azure
2 45 (17.93%) AWS
3 18 (7.17%) GCP
4 12 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.59%) SaaS
5 9 (3.59%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.79%) GitHub
8 6 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (2.39%) Serverless
9 5 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (1.99%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.59%) dbt
10 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.59%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (1.20%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Firewall
2 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.40%) IGMP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) Multicast
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.19%) Power BI
2 7 (2.79%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.99%) Star Schema
5 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.59%) Data Vault
5 4 (1.59%) Metadata
5 4 (1.59%) MySQL
5 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.20%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.20%) DB2
6 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.20%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (5.18%) Git
2 9 (3.59%) JIRA
3 6 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.99%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.99%) Postman
4 5 (1.99%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.59%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.59%) ERwin
5 4 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.59%) Selenium
6 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.80%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) MLflow
8 1 (0.40%) Mockito
8 1 (0.40%) Snyk
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (40.64%) Finance
2 76 (30.28%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.57%) Front Office
4 15 (5.98%) Banking
5 13 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.19%) Marketing
9 8 (3.19%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.59%) Publishing
11 3 (1.20%) Back Office
11 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.20%) Military
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.80%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (29.48%) Developer
2 43 (17.13%) Senior
3 32 (12.75%) Analyst
4 22 (8.76%) Architect
4 22 (8.76%) Business Analyst
5 20 (7.97%) Lead
6 17 (6.77%) Consultant
7 16 (6.37%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.58%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.58%) SAP Consultant
8 14 (5.58%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (3.59%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.19%) Endur Analyst
12 8 (3.19%) Endur Business Analyst
12 8 (3.19%) Implementation Analyst
12 8 (3.19%) OpenLink Analyst
12 8 (3.19%) OpenLink Business Analyst
13 7 (2.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.16%) .NET
2 22 (8.76%) React
3 14 (5.58%) Node.js
3 14 (5.58%) RESTful
4 13 (5.18%) Next.js
4 13 (5.18%) REST
5 11 (4.38%) CSS
5 11 (4.38%) HTML
6 10 (3.98%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.98%) Kafka
7 7 (2.79%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.39%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.39%) PySpark
8 6 (2.39%) SOAP
8 6 (2.39%) Spring
9 5 (1.99%) Gherkin
9 5 (1.99%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (1.59%) HATEOAS
10 4 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.39%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.99%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.20%) CMDB
7 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.20%) IoT
7 3 (1.20%) Life Science
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.80%) FMCG
8 2 (0.80%) PMI
8 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.39%) Linux
2 5 (1.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) Android
3 2 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.86%) Agile
2 47 (18.73%) CI/CD
3 38 (15.14%) DevOps
4 37 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (13.55%) Software Engineering
6 28 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (10.36%) Migration
7 26 (10.36%) Scrum
8 24 (9.56%) Analytics
9 23 (9.16%) Kanban
10 22 (8.76%) AI
11 21 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (7.57%) Microservices
12 19 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (7.17%) Data Governance
14 17 (6.77%) Containerisation
14 17 (6.77%) Fintech
14 17 (6.77%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.77%) TDD
14 17 (6.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 43 (17.13%) SQL
2 37 (14.74%) Python
3 36 (14.34%) Java
4 29 (11.55%) C#
5 25 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.59%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.19%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Go
10 3 (1.20%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.80%) Rust
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (9.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.97%) Degree
3 17 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.80%) CBAP
8 2 (0.80%) MCP
8 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CCIE
9 1 (0.40%) CCNP
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.98%) GDPR
3 8 (3.19%) QA
4 6 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.20%) WCAG
7 2 (0.80%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) EMIR
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (9.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.17%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Argo
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (14.34%) SAP
2 18 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.37%) Databricks
4 7 (2.79%) Google
4 7 (2.79%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.59%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.20%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.20%) Concur
6 3 (1.20%) GoldenSource
6 3 (1.20%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.80%) Adobe
7 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.80%) Ariba
7 2 (0.80%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.80%) Informatica
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle
7 2 (0.80%) Progress