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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 242 251
Rank change year-on-year -114 +9 -69
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 236 262 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 3.10% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 197 294
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £488 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - -
75th Percentile £684 £750 £738
90th Percentile £850 £853 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
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% -

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 12,419 8,439 11,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.67% 33.90% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,880 5,433 7,643
10th Percentile £295 £285 £258
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £749 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 298 789
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.55 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.91 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% +16.48% +22.03%
75th Percentile £67.75 £66.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.30 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.16 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +11.26% +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 15 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 15 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 -52 180 £575 -4.17% 73
North of England -83 15 £550 +12.53% 30
South East -49 14 £683 +21.88% 31
North West -39 11 £550 +25.71% 16
Midlands -56 9 £520 -20.00% 19
West Midlands -63 6 £516 -20.58% 10
South West -34 5 £525 -10.26% 8
Yorkshire -60 4 £600 +26.32% 8
East Midlands -29 3 £675 +25.58% 9
East of England -28 2 £474 +0.80% 9
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 (2.54%) CMS
2 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) Camunda
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) MicroStation
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (8.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.81%) Endur
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Maximo
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.42%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.42%) SmartPlant
4 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.73%) Azure
2 43 (18.22%) AWS
3 13 (5.51%) GCP
4 9 (3.81%) SaaS
5 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.97%) GitHub
7 6 (2.54%) dbt
7 6 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.12%) PaaS
8 5 (2.12%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.12%) Serverless
9 4 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Firewall
1 3 (1.27%) VPN
2 2 (0.85%) BGP
2 2 (0.85%) OSPF
2 2 (0.85%) VXLAN
2 2 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.42%) IPsec
3 1 (0.42%) IPv6
3 1 (0.42%) LAN
3 1 (0.42%) MPLS
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) MVNO
3 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.42%) SNMP
3 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.42%) VoIP
3 1 (0.42%) VSAN
3 1 (0.42%) Wireless
3 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.97%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.97%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.54%) Star Schema
4 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.12%) Power BI
5 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.27%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.27%) Metadata
6 3 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (4.66%) JIRA
2 6 (2.54%) GitLab
2 6 (2.54%) Postman
3 5 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.69%) Git
5 3 (1.27%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.27%) ERwin
5 3 (1.27%) JUnit
5 3 (1.27%) Mockito
5 3 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.85%) Gradle
6 2 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) git-flow
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (34.32%) Finance
2 68 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.63%) Banking
4 17 (7.20%) Front Office
5 15 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.24%) Marketing
7 9 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.39%) Publishing
9 7 (2.97%) Retail
10 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Aviation
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (25.42%) Senior
2 57 (24.15%) Developer
3 28 (11.86%) Analyst
4 25 (10.59%) Architect
5 21 (8.90%) Lead
6 18 (7.63%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.36%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.93%) Consultant
9 14 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.08%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (4.66%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.81%) Senior Business Analyst
14 8 (3.39%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.63%) React
2 15 (6.36%) .NET
3 11 (4.66%) Next.js
3 11 (4.66%) RESTful
3 11 (4.66%) Spring Boot
4 10 (4.24%) Kafka
4 10 (4.24%) PySpark
4 10 (4.24%) REST
4 10 (4.24%) Spring
5 9 (3.81%) CSS
5 9 (3.81%) HTML
5 9 (3.81%) Node.js
6 8 (3.39%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.39%) .NET Framework
6 8 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.39%) OAuth
7 6 (2.54%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.69%) React Native
9 3 (1.27%) Middleware
9 3 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.02%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.32%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.51%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.12%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.69%) CMDB
6 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.69%) Equities
6 4 (1.69%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.27%) CCTV
7 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.27%) Life Science
7 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.51%) Linux
2 11 (4.66%) Unix
3 5 (2.12%) Android
3 5 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.27%) Agile
2 36 (15.25%) CI/CD
3 32 (13.56%) DevOps
4 31 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (11.44%) Analytics
5 27 (11.44%) Software Engineering
5 27 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (11.02%) Migration
7 25 (10.59%) AI
7 25 (10.59%) Roadmaps
8 21 (8.90%) Test Automation
9 20 (8.47%) Fintech
10 19 (8.05%) Scrum
11 18 (7.63%) Data Migration
11 18 (7.63%) Data Modelling
11 18 (7.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (7.63%) Validation
12 17 (7.20%) Kanban
13 16 (6.78%) Containerisation
13 16 (6.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.37%) Python
2 29 (12.29%) SQL
3 28 (11.86%) Java
4 21 (8.90%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.78%) C#
6 12 (5.08%) C++
7 7 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.12%) Go
9 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.69%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.85%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Groovy
11 1 (0.42%) Korn
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) Rust
11 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.44%) Degree
3 20 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.42%) CAPM
8 1 (0.42%) CCDA
8 1 (0.42%) CCDP
8 1 (0.42%) CCIE
8 1 (0.42%) CCIP
8 1 (0.42%) CCNA
8 1 (0.42%) CCNP
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.81%) QA
3 5 (2.12%) PMO
4 4 (1.69%) GDPR
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.85%) NIST
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (8.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.24%) Terraform
3 3 (1.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) CASB
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (9.75%) SAP
2 20 (8.47%) Databricks
3 12 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.24%) Oracle
5 6 (2.54%) Google
5 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.69%) Apple
6 4 (1.69%) Workday
7 3 (1.27%) VMware
8 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.85%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.85%) Cisco
8 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.85%) Informatica
8 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.85%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.42%) Arista
9 1 (0.42%) Okta
9 1 (0.42%) Zscaler