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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 242 243
Rank change year-on-year -112 +1 -59
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 230 272 365
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.06% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 3.18% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 198 303
10th Percentile £415 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £490 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £719 £745
90th Percentile £850 £850 £869
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +94.29% -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% +94.29% -

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 12,048 8,560 11,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.91% 33.33% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,666 5,312 7,665
10th Percentile £285 £275 £256
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £658
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 272 756
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.01 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.75 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £32.06
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +15.42% +42.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.19 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.39 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £32.91 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.55% +5.30% +38.98%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -50 174 £575 -4.17% 56
South East -33 15 £650 +16.07% 27
North of England -84 15 £550 +12.24% 31
North West -47 11 £550 +15.79% 16
Midlands -56 10 £516 -6.14% 13
West Midlands -49 6 £516 -20.58% 10
East Midlands -21 4 £563 +2.27% 3
South West -30 4 £525 -10.26% 11
Yorkshire -66 4 £600 +26.32% 10
East of England -27 1 £488 +3.72% 4
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 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.74%) CMS
2 2 (0.87%) Camunda
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.78%) Endur
3 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.87%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.43%) Maximo
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.43%) SmartPlant
5 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.91%) Azure
2 40 (17.39%) AWS
3 15 (6.52%) GCP
4 10 (4.35%) SaaS
5 9 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.61%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.17%) PaaS
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.74%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.74%) dbt
8 4 (1.74%) GitHub
8 4 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) Serverless
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) VPN
2 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) BGP
3 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.43%) IPsec
3 1 (0.43%) IPv6
3 1 (0.43%) MPLS
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) MVNO
3 1 (0.43%) OSPF
3 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.43%) SNMP
3 1 (0.43%) VoIP
3 1 (0.43%) VSAN
3 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
3 1 (0.43%) Wireless
3 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.04%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.04%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.61%) Star Schema
4 5 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.74%) Data Vault
5 4 (1.74%) Metadata
5 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.30%) Power BI
6 3 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.87%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) DB2
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) JIRA
2 5 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.74%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.74%) ERwin
3 4 (1.74%) Git
3 4 (1.74%) GitLab
3 4 (1.74%) Postman
3 4 (1.74%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.30%) JUnit
4 3 (1.30%) Mockito
5 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.87%) Gradle
5 2 (0.87%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (34.78%) Finance
2 66 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.83%) Front Office
4 15 (6.52%) Banking
4 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.48%) Marketing
7 8 (3.48%) Publishing
8 7 (3.04%) Retail
9 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.87%) Aviation
12 2 (0.87%) Games
12 2 (0.87%) Military
12 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (25.65%) Senior
2 52 (22.61%) Developer
3 27 (11.74%) Analyst
4 24 (10.43%) Architect
5 20 (8.70%) Lead
6 19 (8.26%) Business Analyst
7 18 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.39%) Consultant
9 16 (6.96%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.09%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) C# Developer
13 11 (4.78%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.91%) Data Migration Lead
15 9 (3.91%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.91%) SAP Consultant
15 9 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (3.91%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.52%) .NET
1 15 (6.52%) React
2 11 (4.78%) Next.js
2 11 (4.78%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.35%) Kafka
3 10 (4.35%) RESTful
3 10 (4.35%) Spring
4 9 (3.91%) .NET Core
4 9 (3.91%) CSS
4 9 (3.91%) HTML
4 9 (3.91%) REST
5 8 (3.48%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.48%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.48%) Node.js
5 8 (3.48%) PySpark
6 7 (3.04%) OAuth
7 6 (2.61%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.74%) React Native
9 3 (1.30%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (1.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.57%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.61%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.74%) CMDB
6 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.74%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.30%) CCTV
7 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.30%) Life Science
8 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.87%) FMCG
8 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.65%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Unix
3 5 (2.17%) Android
3 5 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.52%) Agile
2 33 (14.35%) CI/CD
2 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (12.61%) DevOps
4 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (11.74%) Migration
6 26 (11.30%) AI
6 26 (11.30%) Analytics
6 26 (11.30%) Software Engineering
7 24 (10.43%) Roadmaps
8 20 (8.70%) Data Migration
8 20 (8.70%) Fintech
8 20 (8.70%) Test Automation
9 18 (7.83%) Mentoring
9 18 (7.83%) Scrum
9 18 (7.83%) Validation
10 17 (7.39%) Kanban
11 15 (6.52%) ETL
11 15 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.65%) Python
2 28 (12.17%) Java
2 28 (12.17%) SQL
3 18 (7.83%) TypeScript
4 16 (6.96%) C#
5 12 (5.22%) C++
6 7 (3.04%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.17%) Go
8 4 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.74%) Scala
9 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.43%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) Rust
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) Degree
3 22 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.43%) CAPM
8 1 (0.43%) CCDA
8 1 (0.43%) CCDP
8 1 (0.43%) CCIE
8 1 (0.43%) CCIP
8 1 (0.43%) CCNA
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (2.17%) PMO
4 4 (1.74%) GDPR
4 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.04%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Argo
4 1 (0.43%) CASB
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (10.87%) SAP
2 18 (7.83%) Databricks
3 14 (6.09%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.78%) Oracle
4 11 (4.78%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.04%) Google
6 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.74%) Apple
8 3 (1.30%) Workday
9 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) Ariba
10 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) Juniper
10 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat