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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 225 216
Rank change year-on-year -68 -9 -35
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 240 320 470
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.03% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 3.29% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 224 380
10th Percentile £418 £450 £412
25th Percentile £463 £490 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £719
90th Percentile £850 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +94.29% -
UK median hourly rate - £63.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +82.00% -

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 10,373 9,733 13,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.32% 31.23% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,478 5,850 9,011
10th Percentile £290 £296 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 306 454
10th Percentile £14.37 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.97% +12.36% +67.39%
75th Percentile £52.97 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £42.88 £43.33
% change year-on-year -38.20% -1.04% +60.60%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -30 179 £600 - 194
North of England -42 26 £588 +19.90% 59
Yorkshire -20 13 £563 +15.49% 4
North West -43 12 £575 +17.35% 50
South East -16 11 £500 -13.04% 153
Midlands -25 9 £431 -17.86% 24
East Midlands -10 6 £431 -21.59% 11
South West +9 4 £588 -4.08% 9
East of England -13 4 £460 +2.22% 9
West Midlands -22 3 £506 +6.58% 13
North East - 1 £600 - 5
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 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.08%) CMS
3 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.25%) Sketch
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (10.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.17%) Endur
3 5 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.08%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.67%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.42%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.42%) Maximo
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.42%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.00%) Azure
2 45 (18.75%) AWS
3 18 (7.50%) GCP
4 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.33%) Serverless
8 7 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.92%) GitHub
9 6 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.50%) dbt
9 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.50%) SaaS
10 5 (2.08%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.67%) Figma
11 4 (1.67%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) BGP
2 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.42%) IGMP
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) Multicast
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) OSPF
2 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.42%) Power BI
2 10 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.08%) Tableau
8 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.67%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.67%) Metadata
8 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.67%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.25%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.25%) DB2
9 3 (1.25%) Power Query
10 2 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Git
2 9 (3.75%) JIRA
3 5 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.08%) Postman
3 5 (2.08%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.67%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.67%) ERwin
4 4 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (1.67%) Selenium
5 3 (1.25%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.83%) GitLab
6 2 (0.83%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) Ant
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) MLflow
7 1 (0.42%) Snyk
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (44.17%) Finance
2 68 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.75%) Banking
4 19 (7.92%) Front Office
5 17 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.00%) Retail
7 10 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.75%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.92%) Back Office
9 7 (2.92%) Marketing
9 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.25%) Military
12 3 (1.25%) Publishing
13 2 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (30.00%) Developer
2 33 (13.75%) Senior
3 29 (12.08%) Analyst
4 25 (10.42%) Architect
5 19 (7.92%) Lead
6 17 (7.08%) Business Analyst
6 17 (7.08%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.25%) Consultant
8 14 (5.83%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.92%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 6 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (2.50%) ServiceNow Architect
15 5 (2.08%) Endur Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.83%) .NET
2 23 (9.58%) React
3 13 (5.42%) .NET Core
3 13 (5.42%) Node.js
4 11 (4.58%) CSS
4 11 (4.58%) HTML
4 11 (4.58%) RESTful
5 10 (4.17%) Kafka
6 9 (3.75%) Next.js
6 9 (3.75%) REST
7 6 (2.50%) SOAP
8 5 (2.08%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.08%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.08%) PySpark
8 5 (2.08%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.67%) HATEOAS
9 4 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.67%) Spring
9 4 (1.67%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.25%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.25%) CMDB
7 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.25%) IoT
7 3 (1.25%) Life Science
7 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) FMCG
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) PMI
8 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.25%) Android
1 3 (1.25%) Linux
1 3 (1.25%) Windows
2 2 (0.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Agile
2 44 (18.33%) CI/CD
3 39 (16.25%) DevOps
4 31 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.92%) Software Engineering
5 28 (11.67%) Scrum
6 27 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (10.00%) Kanban
8 23 (9.58%) Analytics
8 23 (9.58%) Migration
8 23 (9.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (9.17%) Test Automation
10 21 (8.75%) AI
11 19 (7.92%) Data Governance
11 19 (7.92%) Use Case
12 18 (7.50%) Data Modelling
12 18 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (7.08%) Microservices
14 16 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.58%) SQL
2 43 (17.92%) Python
3 33 (13.75%) Java
4 32 (13.33%) C#
5 24 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.75%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.08%) C++
8 5 (2.08%) Scala
9 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.25%) Go
9 3 (1.25%) VBA
10 2 (0.83%) C
10 2 (0.83%) R
10 2 (0.83%) Rust
11 1 (0.42%) Bash
11 1 (0.42%) Korn
11 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (7.50%) Degree
1 18 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) CBAP
6 2 (0.83%) MCP
6 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CCIE
7 1 (0.42%) CCNP
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.75%) QA
2 8 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.50%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.25%) WCAG
6 2 (0.83%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.83%) NIST
6 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 18 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Argo
3 1 (0.42%) Grafana
3 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (12.08%) SAP
2 20 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.08%) Databricks
4 9 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.08%) Google
7 4 (1.67%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.67%) IBM
7 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.67%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.25%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.25%) Genesys
8 3 (1.25%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe
9 2 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.83%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle
9 2 (0.83%) Progress