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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 234 239
Rank change year-on-year -106 +5 -60
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 215 288 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.08% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 3.30% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 195 307
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £477 £501 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £697 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £854 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11,262 8,731 11,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 32.75% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,197 5,252 7,807
10th Percentile £282 £274 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 660
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.05 £67.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.05 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.87% - +58.51%

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 25 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 25 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 -50 160 £575 -4.17% 77
North of England -72 17 £550 +12.24% 47
South East -28 14 £536 -4.24% 83
North West -39 11 £550 +12.24% 24
Midlands -49 7 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire -46 6 £600 +26.32% 15
South West -16 4 £525 -14.29% 28
West Midlands -48 4 £506 -22.12% 19
East Midlands -28 3 £563 +2.27% 20
East of England -19 2 £460 -2.13% 35
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 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.93%) Camunda
2 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (6.05%) Endur
3 4 (1.86%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.47%) Maximo
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.47%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.47%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 43 (20.00%) Azure
2 39 (18.14%) AWS
3 16 (7.44%) GCP
4 9 (4.19%) SaaS
5 8 (3.72%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.26%) Snowflake
7 6 (2.79%) GitHub
7 6 (2.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (2.33%) dbt
8 5 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.33%) Serverless
9 4 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.40%) PaaS
10 3 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) VPN
2 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.79%) Star Schema
3 5 (2.33%) Power BI
4 4 (1.86%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.86%) Metadata
4 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.40%) MySQL
5 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.40%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.93%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.93%) DB2
6 2 (0.93%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (3.26%) JIRA
2 6 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.86%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.86%) ERwin
3 4 (1.86%) Git
3 4 (1.86%) GitLab
3 4 (1.86%) Postman
3 4 (1.86%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.40%) JUnit
4 3 (1.40%) Mockito
4 3 (1.40%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Gradle
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.47%) Ant
6 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.47%) Snyk
6 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (37.67%) Finance
2 68 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.44%) Banking
4 15 (6.98%) Front Office
5 12 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.19%) Marketing
8 8 (3.72%) Publishing
9 6 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.33%) Retail
11 4 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.40%) Billing
12 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.40%) Military
13 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (25.58%) Senior
2 53 (24.65%) Developer
3 26 (12.09%) Analyst
4 18 (8.37%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.91%) Lead
5 17 (7.91%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.44%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) Architect
7 15 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Consultant
10 11 (5.12%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.65%) C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.65%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Endur Analyst
12 8 (3.72%) Endur Business Analyst
12 8 (3.72%) OpenLink Analyst
12 8 (3.72%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.51%) Next.js
2 13 (6.05%) React
3 11 (5.12%) Node.js
3 11 (5.12%) RESTful
3 11 (5.12%) Spring Boot
4 10 (4.65%) Kafka
4 10 (4.65%) REST
4 10 (4.65%) Spring
5 9 (4.19%) .NET
5 9 (4.19%) PySpark
6 8 (3.72%) CSS
6 8 (3.72%) HTML
6 8 (3.72%) OAuth
7 7 (3.26%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.79%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.33%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.33%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (1.86%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.86%) React Native
10 4 (1.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.86%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.86%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.40%) CMDB
5 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.40%) Life Science
5 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.93%) CBDC
6 2 (0.93%) Digital Currency
6 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.93%) IoT
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.93%) PMI
6 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.12%) Linux
2 10 (4.65%) Unix
3 5 (2.33%) Android
3 5 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.91%) Agile
2 39 (18.14%) CI/CD
3 30 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (12.09%) Software Engineering
5 25 (11.63%) AI
5 25 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (11.16%) DevOps
7 23 (10.70%) Analytics
8 18 (8.37%) Migration
8 18 (8.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (7.91%) Containerisation
9 17 (7.91%) Fintech
9 17 (7.91%) Test Automation
10 16 (7.44%) Data Governance
11 15 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (6.51%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (6.51%) Scrum
13 13 (6.05%) ETL
13 13 (6.05%) Mentoring
13 13 (6.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.35%) SQL
2 28 (13.02%) Python
3 25 (11.63%) Java
4 18 (8.37%) TypeScript
5 12 (5.58%) C++
6 11 (5.12%) C#
7 10 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.26%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.79%) Go
10 4 (1.86%) Scala
11 2 (0.93%) C
11 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.47%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.70%) Degree
3 20 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CBAP
7 2 (0.93%) CISSP
7 2 (0.93%) MCP
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.12%) QA
3 8 (3.72%) GDPR
4 7 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.86%) NIST
6 3 (1.40%) WCAG
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (11.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Grafana
3 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.16%) SAP
2 19 (8.84%) Databricks
3 12 (5.58%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.19%) Google
4 9 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.79%) Oracle
6 5 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.86%) Apple
7 4 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.40%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.93%) Progress
9 2 (0.93%) Workday
10 1 (0.47%) Ariba
10 1 (0.47%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (0.47%) IBM
10 1 (0.47%) Murex
10 1 (0.47%) Okta