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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 229 234
Rank change year-on-year -105 +5 -55
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 212 292 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 3.33% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 200 304
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £477 £501 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £852 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £589 £550
% change year-on-year -6.58% +7.05% -7.37%
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 11,119 8,765 11,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.62% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,266 7,694
10th Percentile £281 £275 £259
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.27% -2.12% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 253 571
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.13 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% +8.77% +46.38%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.02 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.01 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +46.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -48 156 £575 -4.17% 73
North of England -68 18 £563 +14.80% 59
South East -31 13 £513 -10.09% 98
North West -41 11 £550 +12.24% 31
Yorkshire -47 7 £600 +26.32% 18
Midlands -52 7 £525 -4.55% 41
South West -4 5 £525 -14.29% 34
West Midlands -41 4 £506 -22.12% 19
East Midlands -24 3 £563 +2.27% 21
East of England -14 2 £460 - 46
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 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.42%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (6.13%) Endur
3 4 (1.89%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.94%) 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 44 (20.75%) Azure
2 40 (18.87%) AWS
3 16 (7.55%) GCP
4 8 (3.77%) SaaS
5 7 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.30%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.83%) GitHub
6 6 (2.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (2.36%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.36%) dbt
7 5 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.36%) Serverless
8 4 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.83%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
1 6 (2.83%) Star Schema
2 5 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.89%) Data Vault
3 4 (1.89%) Metadata
3 4 (1.89%) MySQL
3 4 (1.89%) Power BI
3 4 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (1.42%) ClickHouse
4 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.42%) DB2
4 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.42%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
5 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 8 (3.77%) JIRA
2 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.89%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.89%) ERwin
3 4 (1.89%) Git
3 4 (1.89%) GitLab
3 4 (1.89%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.89%) Selenium
4 3 (1.42%) JUnit
4 3 (1.42%) Mockito
4 3 (1.42%) Postman
4 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.47%) Ant
5 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.47%) Gradle
5 1 (0.47%) Snyk
5 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (38.68%) Finance
2 65 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.02%) Front Office
4 14 (6.60%) Banking
5 13 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Marketing
7 8 (3.77%) Publishing
8 5 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Retail
9 4 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.42%) Billing
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Military
11 2 (0.94%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 54 (25.47%) Senior
2 53 (25.00%) Developer
3 25 (11.79%) Analyst
4 18 (8.49%) Business Analyst
5 17 (8.02%) Lead
5 17 (8.02%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 15 (7.08%) Architect
8 14 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.13%) Consultant
10 12 (5.66%) Java Developer
11 11 (5.19%) SAP Consultant
12 10 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.25%) C++ Software Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (3.77%) Endur Business Analyst
14 8 (3.77%) Implementation Analyst
14 8 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.77%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.60%) Next.js
2 12 (5.66%) Node.js
2 12 (5.66%) React
2 12 (5.66%) RESTful
3 11 (5.19%) REST
3 11 (5.19%) Spring Boot
4 10 (4.72%) Kafka
4 10 (4.72%) Spring
5 9 (4.25%) CSS
5 9 (4.25%) HTML
5 9 (4.25%) PySpark
6 8 (3.77%) .NET
7 6 (2.83%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.83%) OAuth
7 6 (2.83%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.36%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.89%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.89%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.42%) CMDB
5 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.42%) IoT
5 3 (1.42%) Life Science
5 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.94%) CBDC
6 2 (0.94%) Digital Currency
6 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.94%) PMI
6 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.72%) Linux
2 9 (4.25%) Unix
3 5 (2.36%) Android
4 4 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.25%) Agile
2 38 (17.92%) CI/CD
3 30 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (13.68%) Software Engineering
5 25 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (11.32%) AI
7 23 (10.85%) Analytics
8 22 (10.38%) DevOps
9 18 (8.49%) Migration
10 17 (8.02%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.55%) Data Governance
11 16 (7.55%) Fintech
11 16 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (7.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (7.08%) Test Automation
13 14 (6.60%) Mentoring
13 14 (6.60%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.60%) Scrum
14 13 (6.13%) ETL
14 13 (6.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.98%) SQL
2 28 (13.21%) Java
3 27 (12.74%) Python
4 18 (8.49%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.19%) C#
5 11 (5.19%) C++
5 11 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.77%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.36%) Go
8 4 (1.89%) Scala
9 2 (0.94%) C
9 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.94%) PHP
9 2 (0.94%) Rust
10 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.38%) Degree
3 21 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.94%) CBAP
6 2 (0.94%) MCP
6 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.72%) QA
3 8 (3.77%) GDPR
4 6 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.89%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) WCAG
7 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.94%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (11.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.25%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Grafana
3 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) SAP
2 20 (9.43%) Databricks
3 10 (4.72%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.25%) Google
4 9 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.89%) Apple
6 4 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.89%) Oracle
7 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.42%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.94%) Informatica
8 2 (0.94%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.94%) Progress
9 1 (0.47%) Ariba
9 1 (0.47%) Citrix
9 1 (0.47%) Concur
9 1 (0.47%) IBM
9 1 (0.47%) Murex
9 1 (0.47%) Workday