Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 260 259
Rank change year-on-year -64 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 65 111 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.65% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% 2.22% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 67 128
10th Percentile £381 £393 £325
25th Percentile £413 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -0.76% -5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £582 £578
90th Percentile £675 £735 £729
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +94.29% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,613 4,998 6,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.58% 29.33% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,403 2,745 4,313
10th Percentile £219 £208 £213
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 299 365
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.71 £16.50
25th Percentile £16.85 £22.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +8.27% +105.24%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £79.68
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.62% +3.78% +71.15%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England -39 26 £588 +19.90% 47
Yorkshire -14 13 £563 +15.49% 3
North West -40 12 £575 +17.35% 42
Scotland -4 11 £444 -2.74%
South East -9 11 £500 -13.04% 141
Midlands -34 9 £431 -15.85% 22
East Midlands -9 6 £431 -21.59% 11
South West +10 4 £588 -4.08% 12
East of England -5 4 £460 - 5
West Midlands -20 3 £506 +6.58% 11
North East - 1 £600 - 2
Greenfield Project
UK

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.54%) Maximo
2 1 (1.54%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.54%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.54%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.00%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.23%) Serverless
5 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.15%) SaaS
7 3 (4.62%) GitHub
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.08%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.54%) dbt
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
1 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) Power BI
2 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.62%) ClickHouse
3 3 (4.62%) MySQL
3 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Power Query
3 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.54%) Gradle
5 1 (1.54%) Postman
5 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Retail
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Private Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.54%) Aviation
5 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Developer
2 8 (12.31%) Architect
3 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (6.15%) Consultant
5 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Power BI Developer
6 3 (4.62%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Senior
7 2 (3.08%) Android Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Automation Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.08%) Head of Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) Head of Data Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) CSS
2 6 (9.23%) HTML
2 6 (9.23%) React
3 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.15%) RESTful
4 4 (6.15%) Spring
5 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.62%) jQuery
5 3 (4.62%) REST
5 3 (4.62%) SAP PI
6 2 (3.08%) JSON
6 2 (3.08%) Middleware
6 2 (3.08%) Node.js
6 2 (3.08%) OAuth
6 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.08%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.08%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (3.08%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) FMCG
3 2 (3.08%) IoT
3 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.54%) DevOps
4 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) Front End Development
5 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.31%) Analytics
6 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.77%) Scrum
7 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (10.77%) TDD
8 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (9.23%) Microservices
8 6 (9.23%) Migration
8 6 (9.23%) User Experience
9 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) SQL
2 10 (15.38%) Python
3 9 (13.85%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.23%) C#
5 6 (9.23%) Java
6 3 (4.62%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.62%) Go
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.08%) R
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
1 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) GRC
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.62%) vSphere
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Terraform
2 4 (6.15%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) SAP
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Databricks
3 3 (4.62%) GoldenSource
3 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.08%) Progress
5 1 (1.54%) Ariba
5 1 (1.54%) Concur
5 1 (1.54%) IBM