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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 95 114
Rank change year-on-year -41 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 11 27 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 1.31% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 4.25% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 19
10th Percentile - £419 £385
25th Percentile £506 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £495
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -1.01% +3.15%
75th Percentile £575 - £509
90th Percentile £605 £705 £518
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +0.63%

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 881 636 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.68% 30.78% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 345 542
10th Percentile £200 £203 £251
25th Percentile £358 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £511
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -6.50% +3.28%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £631 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 34 43
10th Percentile £17.15 £19.53 £13.83
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.62 £17.34
Median hourly rate £45.46 £27.33 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.34% -27.12% +40.61%
75th Percentile £58.65 £33.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.83 £54.45 £54.75
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
% change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%

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
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 11 January 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 -18 11 £550 +12.24% 15
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 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) dbt
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (18.18%) DocumentDB
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Private Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Angular Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Sass
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) SAP