Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Greenfield Project
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.20% 0.52% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 1.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £465 -
25th Percentile £656 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% - -
75th Percentile £669 £508 -
90th Percentile - £512 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £663 £488 -
% change year-on-year +35.76% - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 443 246 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 43.22% 42.49% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 149 71
10th Percentile £358 £319 £400
25th Percentile £428 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £438 £520
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -15.87% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £523 £614
90th Percentile £691 £600 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £431 £520
% change year-on-year +15.94% -17.07% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.41
25th Percentile - - £33.41
Median hourly rate £13.69 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Flink
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP