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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 87 117
Rank change year-on-year -44 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 11 37 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.49% 1.54% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 5.33% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 19
10th Percentile £496 £350 £324
25th Percentile £538 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% +3.16% -2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £554 £497
90th Percentile £725 £700 £528
England median daily rate £563 £580 £563
% change year-on-year -3.02% +3.11% -6.25%

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 767 694 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.12% 28.86% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 364 561
10th Percentile £273 £294 £258
25th Percentile £368 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -2.10% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £653 £671 £663
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 41
10th Percentile £15.88 £17.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.15 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.18 £32.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -20.73% +88.25%
75th Percentile £54.38 £52.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.81 £89.70 £73.75
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 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
Manchester -17 11 £575 +17.35% 31
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 5 (45.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Stripe
2 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
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 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Private Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
1 2 (18.18%) SAP PI
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Sass
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Vue
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 1 (9.09%) Data Design
4 1 (9.09%) Data Privacy
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Argo
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Ariba
2 1 (9.09%) Concur