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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 132 157
Rank change year-on-year -39 +25 +17
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 26 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.61% 0.90% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 3.09% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 25
10th Percentile £464 £340 £350
25th Percentile £491 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.90% +3.16% -4.52%
75th Percentile £638 - £494
90th Percentile £675 £690 £515
England median daily rate £563 £579 £570
% change year-on-year -2.85% +1.58% -5.00%

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 1,520 1,164 1,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.76% 28.96% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 627 952
10th Percentile £278 £213 £263
25th Percentile £375 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £573 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.20 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.13 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.08 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% +8.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £49.09 £46.51 £46.11
90th Percentile £68.12 £63.75 £57.40
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +16.67% +73.08%

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 23 October 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 23 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
Yorkshire -14 13 £563 +15.49% 4
North West -40 12 £575 +17.35% 46
North East - 1 £600 - 3
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 (26.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) Serverless
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.85%) DocumentDB
2 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Gradle
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Private Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Architect
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SAP GRC Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) CSS
2 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (11.54%) jQuery
3 3 (11.54%) React
3 3 (11.54%) SAP PI
4 2 (7.69%) Compass CSS Framework
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) Next.js
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
3 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 5 (19.23%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Matrix Management
6 3 (11.54%) MVC
6 3 (11.54%) OO
6 3 (11.54%) OOP
6 3 (11.54%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) SAP
2 3 (11.54%) GoldenSource
3 1 (3.85%) Ariba
3 1 (3.85%) Concur
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft