Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in London

Greenfield Project
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 203 192
Rank change year-on-year -61 -11 -26
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 180 172 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.28% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 3.38% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 140 174
10th Percentile £413 £438 £475
25th Percentile £470 £502 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £619 £608
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +1.81% +1.29%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £734
90th Percentile £938 £839 £822
England median daily rate £575 £585 £584
% change year-on-year -1.71% +0.21% +6.14%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,549 5,086 5,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.57% 37.78% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,719 3,332 3,798
10th Percentile £356 £331 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 123 81
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.56 £27.50 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -8.61% -14.03%
75th Percentile £56.25 £45.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.40 £31.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.98% -34.36% +11.11%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Greenfield Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in London

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in London

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Central London -20 20 £875 +45.83% 19
West London - 7 £500 -
East London - 6 £875 -
South London -8 3 £481 -
Greenfield Project
England

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.33%) CMS
2 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.11%) Confluence
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Trello
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.67%) Endur
3 2 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.11%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.11%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.22%) Azure
2 48 (26.67%) AWS
3 14 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.22%) GCP
4 13 (7.22%) GitHub
5 9 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.44%) dbt
6 8 (4.44%) Serverless
7 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.33%) SaaS
9 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.22%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) BGP
1 2 (1.11%) Firewall
1 2 (1.11%) OSPF
1 2 (1.11%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.11%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.56%) DKIM
2 1 (0.56%) DMZ
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) LAN
2 1 (0.56%) SNMP
2 1 (0.56%) VLAN
2 1 (0.56%) VSAN
2 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.44%) Power BI
4 6 (3.33%) Star Schema
5 5 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.78%) Metadata
5 5 (2.78%) Redis
6 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.67%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.67%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.67%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.67%) Tableau
8 2 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.11%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) JIRA
2 8 (4.44%) Git
2 8 (4.44%) GitLab
3 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.33%) Postman
4 2 (1.11%) git-flow
4 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.11%) MSBuild
4 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.11%) webpack
5 1 (0.56%) Snyk
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (42.22%) Finance
2 53 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.89%) Banking
4 29 (16.11%) Front Office
5 24 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.44%) Marketing
9 7 (3.89%) Retail
10 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (25.00%) Developer
2 40 (22.22%) Senior
3 23 (12.78%) Java Developer
4 22 (12.22%) Analyst
5 21 (11.67%) Senior Developer
6 20 (11.11%) React Developer
7 19 (10.56%) Lead
8 17 (9.44%) Architect
9 16 (8.89%) Senior React Developer
9 16 (8.89%) UI Developer
10 15 (8.33%) Business Analyst
10 15 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
10 15 (8.33%) Senior UI Developer
11 14 (7.78%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Java Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Designer
14 8 (4.44%) Consultant
14 8 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.44%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.89%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (22.78%) React
2 19 (10.56%) Redux
3 15 (8.33%) Spring
4 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 11 (6.11%) Next.js
6 10 (5.56%) REST
7 8 (4.44%) .NET
8 7 (3.89%) PySpark
9 5 (2.78%) Kafka
9 5 (2.78%) Node.js
10 4 (2.22%) Middleware
10 4 (2.22%) OAuth
11 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.67%) CSS
11 3 (1.67%) HTML
11 3 (1.67%) Ktor
11 3 (1.67%) RESTful
12 2 (1.11%) JWT
12 2 (1.11%) OpenAPI
12 2 (1.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 15 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.33%) Equities
4 13 (7.22%) Onboarding
4 13 (7.22%) Product Ownership
5 11 (6.11%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.33%) CMDB
7 5 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.22%) Derivative
8 4 (2.22%) Replication
9 3 (1.67%) CCTV
9 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.67%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.11%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.11%) Linux
1 2 (1.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.78%) Agile
2 42 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 31 (17.22%) AI
3 31 (17.22%) DevOps
4 30 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (12.22%) Scrum
7 21 (11.67%) Electronic Trading
7 21 (11.67%) Microservices
7 21 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (11.11%) Low Latency
8 20 (11.11%) Migration
8 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 19 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.44%) Data Engineering
11 17 (9.44%) Kanban
11 17 (9.44%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (7.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 44 (24.44%) Java
2 34 (18.89%) SQL
3 33 (18.33%) TypeScript
4 32 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 31 (17.22%) Python
6 25 (13.89%) C#
7 4 (2.22%) Bash
7 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) ABAP
10 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Korn
10 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.78%) Degree
4 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.11%) VCAP
5 2 (1.11%) VCDX
6 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.22%) PMO
2 4 (2.22%) WCAG
3 3 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.11%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) GMP
5 1 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.11%) Docker
2 6 (3.33%) IAG
3 4 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.00%) Terraform
3 5 (2.78%) Ansible
4 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) SAP
3 10 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.00%) Databricks
5 7 (3.89%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.89%) Refinitiv
6 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.22%) Ariba
7 4 (2.22%) VMware
8 3 (1.67%) Oracle
9 2 (1.11%) Cisco
9 2 (1.11%) Google
9 2 (1.11%) Workday
10 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry
10 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk