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 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 253 251
Rank change year-on-year -105 -2 -63
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 232 236 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 2.84% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 185 281
10th Percentile £418 £400 £413
25th Percentile £506 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £681 £750 £738
90th Percentile £818 £854 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £81.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £53.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.36% +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 12,886 8,306 11,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.96% 34.11% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 5,455 7,553
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £672
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 313 808
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.35
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.27 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +17.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.80 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +36.92% +16.07% +24.44%

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 8 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Greenfield Project in England over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Greenfield Project in England

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 8 April 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 -66 173 £575 -5.74% 68
South East -31 22 £715 +27.68% 34
North of England -81 10 £531 +11.84% 29
Midlands -65 7 £548 -15.77% 18
North West -40 6 £513 +13.89% 14
South West -31 5 £525 -10.26% 6
Yorkshire -56 4 £600 +26.32% 10
West Midlands -68 4 £520 -20.00% 9
East Midlands -28 3 £675 +28.57% 9
East of England -33 2 £474 +0.80% 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 8 (3.45%) CMS
2 6 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Camunda
3 2 (0.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 21 (9.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.59%) Endur
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.43%) SmartPlant
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.71%) Azure
2 47 (20.26%) AWS
3 10 (4.31%) dbt
3 10 (4.31%) GCP
3 10 (4.31%) SaaS
4 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.45%) GitHub
5 7 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (3.02%) Serverless
6 6 (2.59%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.16%) PaaS
7 5 (2.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.29%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Route 53
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%) SNMP
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%) VoIP
3 1 (0.43%) VSAN
3 1 (0.43%) Wireless
3 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.02%) Oracle Database
2 7 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.16%) Power BI
3 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.72%) Star Schema
5 3 (1.29%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.29%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.29%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.43%) DB2
7 1 (0.43%) GIS
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.45%) JIRA
1 8 (3.45%) Postman
2 5 (2.16%) GitLab
2 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Git
3 3 (1.29%) JUnit
3 3 (1.29%) Mockito
4 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.86%) git-flow
5 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.43%) Gradle
5 1 (0.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (32.76%) Finance
2 67 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.33%) Banking
4 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.03%) Front Office
6 12 (5.17%) Marketing
7 10 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.02%) Publishing
9 6 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.59%) Retail
10 5 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.29%) Billing
12 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Advertising
13 2 (0.86%) Games
13 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (26.72%) Senior
2 55 (23.71%) Developer
3 29 (12.50%) Architect
4 26 (11.21%) Analyst
5 24 (10.34%) Lead
6 20 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.60%) Consultant
8 13 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.60%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.17%) C# Developer
9 12 (5.17%) Data Migration Lead
10 11 (4.74%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.74%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.88%) Senior Business Analyst
12 9 (3.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.05%) React
2 13 (5.60%) .NET
3 12 (5.17%) Spring
3 12 (5.17%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.74%) PySpark
4 11 (4.74%) REST
5 10 (4.31%) RESTful
6 9 (3.88%) Next.js
6 9 (3.88%) OAuth
7 8 (3.45%) .NET Framework
7 8 (3.45%) CSS
7 8 (3.45%) HTML
7 8 (3.45%) Kafka
8 7 (3.02%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.02%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.59%) Node.js
9 6 (2.59%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.72%) React Native
11 3 (1.29%) Middleware
11 3 (1.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 23 (9.91%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.16%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.16%) CMDB
5 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.72%) Equities
6 4 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.29%) CCTV
7 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.29%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.60%) Linux
2 11 (4.74%) Unix
3 6 (2.59%) Android
3 6 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.00%) Agile
2 34 (14.66%) CI/CD
3 33 (14.22%) DevOps
3 33 (14.22%) Migration
4 28 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (11.21%) AI
5 26 (11.21%) Roadmaps
6 25 (10.78%) Analytics
7 24 (10.34%) Data Migration
7 24 (10.34%) Software Engineering
7 24 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (8.62%) Data Engineering
8 20 (8.62%) Data Modelling
8 20 (8.62%) Validation
9 19 (8.19%) Scrum
10 18 (7.76%) ETL
10 18 (7.76%) Microservices
10 18 (7.76%) Test Automation
11 16 (6.90%) Kanban
11 16 (6.90%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.53%) Python
2 27 (11.64%) Java
2 27 (11.64%) SQL
3 21 (9.05%) TypeScript
4 17 (7.33%) C#
5 12 (5.17%) C++
6 10 (4.31%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.16%) Go
8 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.29%) Scala
10 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
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 42 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) Degree
4 13 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.86%) CISSP
7 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.86%) PMP
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.59%) QA
3 5 (2.16%) PMO
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
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
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.76%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) IAG
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.74%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (11.21%) SAP
2 16 (6.90%) Databricks
3 12 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.74%) Oracle
5 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.59%) Google
7 4 (1.72%) Apple
7 4 (1.72%) VMware
7 4 (1.72%) Workday
8 3 (1.29%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.29%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.86%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.86%) Cisco
9 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.43%) Meraki
10 1 (0.43%) Roku
10 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds