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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 223 241
Rank change year-on-year -99 +18 -67
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 221 297 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.10% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 3.38% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 204 295
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £851 £869
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -7.17%
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 11,104 8,780 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.56% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,063 5,284 7,551
10th Percentile £281 £275 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.15% -2.25% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 254 512
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.33 £15.26
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.86
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -1.99% +57.29%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.89 £63.95
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -8.67% +56.25%

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 15 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 15 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 -51 160 £575 -4.17% 62
North of England -57 21 £550 +12.24% 45
South East -25 14 £556 -2.41% 69
North West -39 11 £550 +12.24% 25
Yorkshire -41 10 £600 +26.32% 13
Midlands -43 8 £450 -18.18% 32
South West -21 5 £525 -20.00% 21
East Midlands -29 4 £450 -18.18% 15
West Midlands -38 4 £506 -22.12% 17
East of England -21 3 £460 - 28
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 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.81%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (9.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (5.88%) Endur
3 4 (1.81%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.90%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.45%) Maximo
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.45%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.81%) Azure
2 40 (18.10%) AWS
3 16 (7.24%) GCP
4 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.07%) SaaS
5 8 (3.62%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.17%) GitHub
7 6 (2.71%) dbt
7 6 (2.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (2.26%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.26%) Serverless
9 4 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.36%) Cloud Run
10 3 (1.36%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.71%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.71%) Power BI
1 6 (2.71%) SQL Server
1 6 (2.71%) Star Schema
2 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.81%) Data Vault
3 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.81%) Metadata
3 4 (1.81%) MySQL
3 4 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (1.36%) ClickHouse
4 3 (1.36%) DB2
4 3 (1.36%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.36%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.90%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.45%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (4.07%) JIRA
2 8 (3.62%) Git
3 7 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.81%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.81%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.81%) ERwin
5 4 (1.81%) GitLab
5 4 (1.81%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.81%) Selenium
6 3 (1.36%) Postman
6 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.90%) JUnit
7 2 (0.90%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) Ant
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) Gradle
8 1 (0.45%) Snyk
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (39.82%) Finance
2 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.69%) Front Office
4 14 (6.33%) Banking
5 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.62%) Marketing
7 8 (3.62%) Publishing
8 6 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.71%) Retail
9 4 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.36%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Billing
11 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (25.34%) Developer
2 53 (23.98%) Senior
3 26 (11.76%) Analyst
4 19 (8.60%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.69%) Lead
5 17 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.24%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.79%) Architect
8 14 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (5.88%) Consultant
9 13 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.98%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.98%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (4.07%) C++ Software Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Endur Business Analyst
13 8 (3.62%) Implementation Analyst
13 8 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (3.62%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.33%) Next.js
2 13 (5.88%) React
3 12 (5.43%) CSS
3 12 (5.43%) HTML
3 12 (5.43%) Node.js
3 12 (5.43%) RESTful
4 11 (4.98%) .NET
4 11 (4.98%) REST
5 10 (4.52%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.07%) Kafka
6 9 (4.07%) PySpark
6 9 (4.07%) Spring
7 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.71%) OAuth
7 6 (2.71%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.26%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.81%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.81%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.81%) React Native
10 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.71%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.81%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.36%) CMDB
6 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.36%) IoT
6 3 (1.36%) Life Science
6 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.90%) CBDC
7 2 (0.90%) Digital Currency
7 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) PMI
7 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.52%) Linux
2 9 (4.07%) Unix
3 5 (2.26%) Android
4 4 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.32%) Agile
2 38 (17.19%) CI/CD
3 35 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (13.57%) Software Engineering
5 26 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (11.31%) Analytics
7 24 (10.86%) AI
8 23 (10.41%) DevOps
9 18 (8.14%) Fintech
9 18 (8.14%) Migration
9 18 (8.14%) Test Automation
10 17 (7.69%) Data Governance
10 17 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (7.24%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.24%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (6.79%) Mentoring
12 15 (6.79%) Roadmaps
12 15 (6.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (6.79%) Use Case
13 14 (6.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.74%) SQL
2 28 (12.67%) Java
3 27 (12.22%) Python
4 18 (8.14%) TypeScript
5 15 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.33%) C#
7 11 (4.98%) C++
8 8 (3.62%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.26%) Go
10 4 (1.81%) Scala
11 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.90%) C
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) Rust
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.95%) Degree
3 21 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) CBAP
6 2 (0.90%) MCP
6 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.52%) QA
3 8 (3.62%) GDPR
4 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.81%) NIST
6 3 (1.36%) WCAG
7 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.90%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Argo
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (11.31%) SAP
2 20 (9.05%) Databricks
3 12 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.07%) Google
4 9 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.81%) Apple
6 4 (1.81%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.36%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.36%) GoldenSource
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle
8 2 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.90%) Informatica
8 2 (0.90%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.90%) Progress
9 1 (0.45%) Ariba
9 1 (0.45%) Citrix
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) Murex