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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 244 257
Rank change year-on-year -119 +13 -83
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 233 248 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 1.01% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 2.96% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 191 287
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £505 £488 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - -
75th Percentile £675 £750 £731
90th Percentile £825 £856 £850
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.66% +51.43% -56.25%

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 12,608 8,369 11,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 33.93% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,009 5,430 7,607
10th Percentile £300 £300 £257
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -0.46% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £741 £786 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 309 792
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +25.45% +15.59%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.12 £84.20 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -49 176 £575 -4.17% 75
North of England -93 15 £550 +12.82% 31
South East -46 14 £683 +21.88% 37
North West -33 11 £550 +37.50% 17
Midlands -57 9 £520 -20.00% 22
West Midlands -66 6 £516 -20.58% 12
South West -35 5 £525 -10.26% 7
Yorkshire -61 4 £600 +26.32% 9
East Midlands -32 3 £675 +28.57% 10
East of England -24 2 £474 +0.80% 5
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 (2.58%) CMS
2 5 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Camunda
3 2 (0.86%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (8.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.86%) Endur
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.43%) SmartPlant
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.03%) Azure
2 42 (18.03%) AWS
3 13 (5.58%) GCP
4 9 (3.86%) SaaS
5 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.43%) GitHub
6 7 (3.00%) dbt
7 6 (2.58%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.15%) PaaS
8 5 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.15%) Serverless
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.72%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) BGP
1 3 (1.29%) Firewall
1 3 (1.29%) OSPF
1 3 (1.29%) VPN
1 3 (1.29%) VXLAN
2 2 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (0.86%) WAN
3 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) IPsec
3 1 (0.43%) IPv6
3 1 (0.43%) LAN
3 1 (0.43%) MPLS
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) MVNO
3 1 (0.43%) SNMP
3 1 (0.43%) VoIP
3 1 (0.43%) VSAN
3 1 (0.43%) Wireless
3 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.00%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.15%) Power BI
3 5 (2.15%) Star Schema
4 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.29%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.86%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.86%) Metadata
6 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.43%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) JIRA
2 6 (2.58%) GitLab
2 6 (2.58%) Postman
3 5 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.72%) Git
5 3 (1.29%) JUnit
5 3 (1.29%) Mockito
6 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.86%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.86%) ERwin
6 2 (0.86%) Gradle
6 2 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.86%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) git-flow
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (34.76%) Finance
2 68 (29.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.73%) Banking
4 15 (6.44%) Front Office
4 15 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.29%) Marketing
6 9 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.43%) Publishing
8 5 (2.15%) Retail
9 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.29%) Billing
10 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Aviation
11 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.86%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (25.75%) Senior
2 57 (24.46%) Developer
3 28 (12.02%) Analyst
4 26 (11.16%) Architect
5 21 (9.01%) Lead
6 18 (7.73%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.87%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.87%) Senior Developer
8 15 (6.44%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Consultant
9 14 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.72%) C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.86%) Senior Business Analyst
14 8 (3.43%) Data Migration Lead
14 8 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.73%) React
2 15 (6.44%) .NET
3 11 (4.72%) Next.js
3 11 (4.72%) REST
3 11 (4.72%) RESTful
3 11 (4.72%) Spring Boot
4 10 (4.29%) Kafka
4 10 (4.29%) Spring
5 9 (3.86%) CSS
5 9 (3.86%) HTML
5 9 (3.86%) PySpark
6 8 (3.43%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.43%) .NET Framework
6 8 (3.43%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.43%) Node.js
6 8 (3.43%) OAuth
7 6 (2.58%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.72%) React Native
9 3 (1.29%) Middleware
9 3 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.44%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.72%) CMDB
6 4 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.72%) Equities
6 4 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.29%) CCTV
7 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.29%) Life Science
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.58%) Linux
2 11 (4.72%) Unix
3 6 (2.58%) Android
3 6 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.18%) Agile
2 38 (16.31%) CI/CD
3 31 (13.30%) DevOps
4 30 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (11.59%) AI
6 27 (11.59%) Migration
7 26 (11.16%) Analytics
8 25 (10.73%) Software Engineering
9 24 (10.30%) Roadmaps
10 21 (9.01%) Test Automation
11 19 (8.15%) Scrum
12 18 (7.73%) Data Migration
12 18 (7.73%) Validation
13 17 (7.30%) Data Engineering
13 17 (7.30%) Data Modelling
13 17 (7.30%) Fintech
13 17 (7.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (6.87%) Kanban
15 15 (6.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.60%) Python
2 27 (11.59%) SQL
3 26 (11.16%) Java
4 22 (9.44%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.87%) C#
6 12 (5.15%) C++
7 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.15%) Go
8 5 (2.15%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.72%) Scala
10 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.86%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.59%) Degree
3 20 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.86%) CISSP
7 2 (0.86%) VCAP
7 2 (0.86%) VCDX
8 1 (0.43%) CCDA
8 1 (0.43%) CCDP
8 1 (0.43%) CCIE
8 1 (0.43%) CCIP
8 1 (0.43%) CCNA
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.86%) QA
3 5 (2.15%) PMO
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (8.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.29%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) Argo
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (9.87%) SAP
2 18 (7.73%) Databricks
3 12 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.29%) Oracle
5 6 (2.58%) Google
5 6 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.72%) Apple
6 4 (1.72%) VMware
6 4 (1.72%) Workday
7 2 (0.86%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.86%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco
7 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.86%) Informatica
7 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.86%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.43%) Meraki
8 1 (0.43%) Roku