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 7 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 120 80
Rank change year-on-year -45 -40 +37
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 16 8 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.40% 0.37% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 1.09% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 30
10th Percentile £363 £435 £401
25th Percentile £400 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -8.16% +1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £506 £538
90th Percentile £938 £683 £660
England median daily rate £573 £593 £580
% change year-on-year -3.38% +2.16% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £64.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.75 - £68.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.26%

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 1,315 734 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.04% 33.81% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 491 381
10th Percentile £325 £308 £297
25th Percentile £413 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 40 25
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.38 £15.67
25th Percentile £24.04 £26.38 £18.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £41.31 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +75.79% -41.72%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.63 £80.80
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -40.42% +20.03%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -37 9 £525 +16.67% 28
Cumbria - 3 £875 - 1
Merseyside - 2 £575 - 3
Cheshire - 2 £388 - 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (12.50%) SAP MDG
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) n8n
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Zapier
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office
3 2 (12.50%) iGaming
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) PMO Lead
3 2 (12.50%) React Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior React Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior UI Developer
3 2 (12.50%) UI Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cutover Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Redux
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Next.js
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Equities
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (25.00%) ERP
1 4 (25.00%) Migration
1 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
2 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
2 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (12.50%) Data Design
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (12.50%) LLM
3 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
3 2 (12.50%) Observability
3 2 (12.50%) Order to Cash
3 2 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (12.50%) Project Governance
3 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) P3O
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Ariba
3 1 (6.25%) Foundry
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle