Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Greenfield Project
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 131 144
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 30 33 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.63% 0.93% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 2.85% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 21
10th Percentile £480 £420 £400
25th Percentile £506 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% +0.51% -
75th Percentile £647 - £500
90th Percentile £675 £545 £525
England median daily rate £555 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -3.48% -2.13% -1.47%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,700 1,156 1,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.71% 32.49% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 642 880
10th Percentile £213 £203 £257
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £587
90th Percentile £638 £687 £650
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 65
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.02 £14.04
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.10 £16.92
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.88% +37.18% +3.45%
75th Percentile £56.69 £38.31 £45.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £54.50
England median hourly rate £27.86 £37.25 £43.63
% change year-on-year -25.22% -14.61% +24.45%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the North of England

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the North of England

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Yorkshire -26 15 £600 +26.32% 10
North West -42 15 £550 +12.24% 44
Greenfield Project
England

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Serverless
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.00%) dbt
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.67%) DocumentDB
2 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Gradle
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Private Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Manager
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Programme Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) CSS
2 4 (13.33%) HTML
3 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (10.00%) jQuery
3 3 (10.00%) PySpark
3 3 (10.00%) React
3 3 (10.00%) SAP PI
4 2 (6.67%) Compass CSS Framework
4 2 (6.67%) Kafka
4 2 (6.67%) Middleware
4 2 (6.67%) Next.js
4 2 (6.67%) Playwright
4 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.33%) HTML5
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile
2 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.33%) Matrix Management
5 4 (13.33%) SOA
5 4 (13.33%) TDD
6 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (16.67%) Python
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) C#
2 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) GoldenSource
3 2 (6.67%) Ariba
3 2 (6.67%) Concur
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Google