Greenfield Project Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 287 276
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 63 99 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.47% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 1.62% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 74 131
10th Percentile £400 £361 £325
25th Percentile £425 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £603 £580 £612
90th Percentile £695 £646 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -39.13% -

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 4,789 6,115 7,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 28.87% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 3,587 4,845
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 745 391
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.41 £12.95
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +58.44% +4.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Greenfield Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 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 -14 28 £525 +7.14% 213
North West -19 14 £438 -10.71% 126
Midlands +17 10 £450 -23.08% 88
South East +29 8 £513 -10.87% 190
North East +7 7 £600 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire +5 7 £513 +13.89% 70
South West +29 5 £585 +11.43% 73
East Midlands +5 5 £450 -28.00% 31
Scotland -3 5 £513 +16.48% 43
East of England +25 4 £488 -32.76% 78
West Midlands +8 4 £400 -20.00% 56
Northern Ireland -8 3 £410 - 12
Wales +5 1 £400 -43.86% 20
Greenfield Project
UK

Greenfield Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.59%) Primavera
2 1 (1.59%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.35%) SaaS
4 4 (6.35%) Serverless
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.17%) Figma
6 2 (3.17%) IaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.17%) PaaS
6 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Big Data
3 3 (4.76%) Apache Hive
3 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) HBase
4 2 (3.17%) Impala
4 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Power Query
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.17%) JMeter
2 2 (3.17%) Postman
2 2 (3.17%) Selenium
2 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.59%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 5 (7.94%) Retail
3 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.17%) Law
4 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Senior
3 11 (17.46%) Software Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Architect
4 8 (12.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Consultant
6 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark Developer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Product Manager
8 3 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (3.17%) Security Consultant
9 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) React
2 10 (15.87%) Node.js
3 6 (9.52%) .NET
4 5 (7.94%) Kafka
5 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.76%) JSON
6 3 (4.76%) RESTful
7 2 (3.17%) Apache Avro
7 2 (3.17%) Middleware
7 2 (3.17%) SAP PI
8 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.59%) Flask
8 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.59%) Immutable.js
8 1 (1.59%) Jest
8 1 (1.59%) Next.js
8 1 (1.59%) pytest
8 1 (1.59%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (1.59%) Redux
8 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.17%) FMCG
2 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.59%) NHS
3 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.59%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Android
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
2 11 (17.46%) Agile
3 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
4 6 (9.52%) DevOps
4 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (9.52%) Migration
4 6 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (7.94%) Microservices
5 5 (7.94%) Scrum
5 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
6 4 (6.35%) Analytics
6 4 (6.35%) Logistics
6 4 (6.35%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (4.76%) Front End Development
7 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (4.76%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
3 8 (12.70%) SQL
4 7 (11.11%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (6.35%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) Clojure
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.59%) Bicep
7 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.17%) Degree
1 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) Nintex
3 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) Tenable
4 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds