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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 234 211
Rank change year-on-year -67 -23 -26
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 251 327 442
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.06% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.33% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 231 359
10th Percentile £414 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £490 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year - +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £724 £675 £725
90th Percentile £850 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
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 11,173 9,814 12,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.68% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,854 8,473
10th Percentile £285 £298 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.95% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 318 461
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £41.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% -7.87% +27.14%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -22.86% -20.90% +26.43%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -17 180 £600 - 54
North of England -46 30 £588 +19.90% 22
South East -15 16 £580 +0.87% 50
Yorkshire -17 15 £600 +24.68% 3
North West -41 14 £550 +12.24% 18
Midlands -42 8 £450 -18.18% 10
East Midlands -14 5 £450 -18.18% 3
East of England -14 4 £460 +2.22% 7
South West +3 3 £425 -37.04% 7
West Midlands -32 3 £506 -22.12% 7
North East - 1 £600 - 1
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 Spark
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
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 62 (24.70%) Azure
2 45 (17.93%) AWS
3 18 (7.17%) GCP
4 13 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.59%) SaaS
6 9 (3.59%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.79%) GitHub
9 6 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.39%) Serverless
10 5 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.99%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.59%) dbt
11 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 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 9 (3.59%) Power BI
2 8 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.79%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
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%) DB2
6 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.20%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.80%) Power Query
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
1 103 (41.04%) Finance
2 75 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.17%) Front Office
4 16 (6.37%) Banking
5 15 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.18%) Public Sector
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%) Aviation
12 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 75 (29.88%) Developer
2 42 (16.73%) Senior
3 31 (12.35%) Analyst
4 22 (8.76%) Architect
5 21 (8.37%) Business Analyst
5 21 (8.37%) Lead
6 17 (6.77%) Consultant
6 17 (6.77%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.58%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.58%) SAP Consultant
7 14 (5.58%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (3.59%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Endur Analyst
10 8 (3.19%) Endur Business Analyst
10 8 (3.19%) Implementation Analyst
10 8 (3.19%) OpenLink Analyst
10 8 (3.19%) OpenLink Business Analyst
11 7 (2.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.96%) .NET
2 22 (8.76%) React
3 14 (5.58%) Node.js
4 13 (5.18%) RESTful
5 12 (4.78%) .NET Core
5 12 (4.78%) Next.js
5 12 (4.78%) REST
6 11 (4.38%) CSS
6 11 (4.38%) HTML
7 10 (3.98%) Kafka
8 6 (2.39%) PySpark
8 6 (2.39%) SOAP
8 6 (2.39%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.99%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.99%) Gherkin
9 5 (1.99%) Spring
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%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.99%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
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%) Fixed Income
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%) FMCG
8 2 (0.80%) PMI
8 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.99%) Linux
2 4 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) Android
3 2 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.07%) Agile
2 46 (18.33%) CI/CD
3 38 (15.14%) DevOps
4 36 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (13.55%) Software Engineering
6 29 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (10.36%) Migration
7 26 (10.36%) Scrum
8 25 (9.96%) Analytics
9 23 (9.16%) Kanban
10 22 (8.76%) AI
11 20 (7.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (7.57%) Data Governance
12 19 (7.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (7.17%) Microservices
14 17 (6.77%) Fintech
14 17 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (6.77%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.77%) TDD
14 17 (6.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.93%) SQL
2 38 (15.14%) Python
3 34 (13.55%) Java
4 30 (11.95%) C#
5 24 (9.56%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.59%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.79%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Go
10 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.20%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.80%) Rust
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.57%) Degree
3 16 (6.37%) 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 22 (8.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (7.97%) 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 17 (6.77%) 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