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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 232 225
Rank change year-on-year -75 -7 -46
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 244 303 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.07% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 3.30% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 208 317
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £583 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -0.85% -2.08%
75th Percentile £700 £716 £738
90th Percentile £850 £822 £858
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.50%
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 11,156 9,168 11,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.37% 32.47% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,055 5,531 7,831
10th Percentile £283 £275 £263
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £530 £548
% change year-on-year -4.81% -3.20% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 471
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% -12.94% +28.79%
75th Percentile £63.05 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.75 £41.50
% change year-on-year -19.38% -18.67% +29.69%

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 December 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 December 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 -36 172 £580 -3.33% 183
North of England -49 30 £563 +14.80% 132
South East -16 15 £580 +1.75% 120
North West -33 15 £550 +12.24% 74
Yorkshire -34 15 £600 +26.32% 47
Midlands -50 8 £473 -14.09% 88
South West -7 5 £525 -20.00% 36
East Midlands -24 4 £473 -14.09% 31
West Midlands -33 4 £506 -22.12% 52
East of England -19 3 £460 +2.22% 55
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 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.05%) CMS
3 4 (1.64%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 28 (11.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.74%) Endur
3 5 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.64%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.82%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.41%) Maximo
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.41%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.41%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.41%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.72%) Azure
2 42 (17.21%) AWS
3 17 (6.97%) GCP
4 11 (4.51%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.69%) SaaS
5 9 (3.69%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.28%) GitHub
7 7 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.87%) Serverless
8 6 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.46%) dbt
8 6 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.64%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.28%) Power BI
2 7 (2.87%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.46%) Star Schema
4 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.64%) Data Vault
5 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.64%) Metadata
5 4 (1.64%) MySQL
5 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.23%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.23%) DB2
6 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.82%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) Git
2 9 (3.69%) JIRA
3 6 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.05%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.05%) Postman
5 4 (1.64%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.64%) ERwin
5 4 (1.64%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.64%) Selenium
6 3 (1.23%) GitLab
6 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Ant
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) Gradle
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.41%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Mockito
7 1 (0.41%) Snyk
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (40.57%) Finance
2 76 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.38%) Front Office
4 13 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.92%) Banking
6 11 (4.51%) Marketing
6 11 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.46%) Retail
9 5 (2.05%) Publishing
10 4 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.23%) Military
12 2 (0.82%) Back Office
12 2 (0.82%) Billing
12 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (25.00%) Developer
2 47 (19.26%) Senior
3 33 (13.52%) Analyst
4 24 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.20%) Architect
6 18 (7.38%) Lead
7 16 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) Consultant
9 13 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.92%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Endur Business Analyst
12 8 (3.28%) Implementation Analyst
12 8 (3.28%) OpenLink Business Analyst
12 8 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.28%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.97%) .NET
1 17 (6.97%) React
2 15 (6.15%) RESTful
3 14 (5.74%) Next.js
4 13 (5.33%) Node.js
5 11 (4.51%) CSS
5 11 (4.51%) HTML
5 11 (4.51%) Kafka
5 11 (4.51%) REST
6 8 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.28%) PySpark
6 8 (3.28%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.87%) Spring
8 5 (2.05%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.05%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.05%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.23%) Nuxt
9 3 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.46%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.46%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.05%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.05%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.23%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.23%) CMDB
6 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.23%) IoT
6 3 (1.23%) Life Science
6 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) FMCG
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.82%) PMI
7 2 (0.82%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.28%) Linux
2 7 (2.87%) Unix
3 3 (1.23%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Windows
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.79%) Agile
2 40 (16.39%) CI/CD
3 38 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (14.75%) Software Engineering
5 32 (13.11%) DevOps
6 29 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (10.66%) Analytics
7 26 (10.66%) Migration
8 25 (10.25%) AI
9 22 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (7.79%) Fintech
10 19 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (7.38%) Data Governance
11 18 (7.38%) Mentoring
11 18 (7.38%) Scrum
12 17 (6.97%) Microservices
12 17 (6.97%) Test Automation
12 17 (6.97%) Use Case
12 17 (6.97%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (6.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.57%) SQL
2 29 (11.89%) Java
2 29 (11.89%) Python
3 21 (8.61%) C#
4 19 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 19 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.69%) C++
5 9 (3.69%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.23%) Go
6 3 (1.23%) Scala
7 2 (0.82%) C
7 2 (0.82%) PHP
7 2 (0.82%) Rust
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.41%) R
8 1 (0.41%) Ruby
8 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.02%) Degree
3 16 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.82%) CBAP
7 2 (0.82%) MCP
7 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.10%) GDPR
2 10 (4.10%) QA
3 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.64%) NIST
5 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.23%) WCAG
6 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.41%) EMIR
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (9.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Argo
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.11%) SAP
2 18 (7.38%) Databricks
3 16 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.87%) Google
5 7 (2.87%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.64%) Guidewire
6 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.23%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.23%) GoldenSource
7 3 (1.23%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.82%) Adobe
8 2 (0.82%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.82%) Ariba
8 2 (0.82%) Concur
8 2 (0.82%) Informatica
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle
8 2 (0.82%) Progress
9 1 (0.41%) Workday