Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Greenfield Project
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 55 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 12 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.16% 2.52% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.32% 7.95% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 15
10th Percentile £496 - £321
25th Percentile £538 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% +8.89% -9.55%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £500
90th Percentile £725 £750 £533
North West median daily rate £575 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +17.35% +3.16% -2.56%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 361 365 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.95% 31.66% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 189 342
10th Percentile £305 £294 £226
25th Percentile £381 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £582
90th Percentile £673 £684 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -7.98% -2.20% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 14
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.93 £16.19
25th Percentile £19.75 £23.88 £20.14
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -13.13% +62.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £95.10 £77.25
North West median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £41.75
% change year-on-year -3.51% -22.16% +91.69%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in Manchester

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in Manchester

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Stripe
2 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Gradle
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Private Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
1 2 (16.67%) SAP PI
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Sass
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
2 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) API Design
5 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
5 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Argo
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba
2 1 (8.33%) Concur