Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in the North West

Greenfield Project
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 111 98
Rank change year-on-year -43 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 7 15 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.76% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 2.69% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 37
10th Percentile £400 - £350
25th Percentile £506 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -14.14% -1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £506 £538
90th Percentile £803 £575 £600
England median daily rate £560 £597 £600
% change year-on-year -6.20% -0.50% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,047 558 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.40% 28.15% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 386 445
10th Percentile £315 £213 £297
25th Percentile £393 £360 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £581
90th Percentile £648 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 34 74
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.44 £26.88 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.63 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.81% +33.19% -8.84%
75th Percentile £76.50 £64.69 £37.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.38 £57.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the North West

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the North West

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Manchester -41 4 £513 +24.24% 11
Cumbria - 2 £616 - 1
Merseyside -14 1 - - 1
Greenfield Project
England

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) n8n
2 1 (14.29%) Zapier
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Redux
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Multichannel Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI