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 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 280 289
Rank change year-on-year -90 +9 -34
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 59 65 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 1.53% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 51 72
10th Percentile £506 £400 £364
25th Percentile £513 £418 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -4.04% +0.25%
75th Percentile £733 £614 £570
90th Percentile £769 £700 £661
UK median daily rate £560 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.42% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £62.30 - -
25th Percentile £80.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.13% +128.57% -56.25%

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 7,064 4,241 6,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.82% 33.27% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 2,610 3,689
10th Percentile £240 £208 £208
25th Percentile £375 £365 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £589 £599
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 301 718
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.88 £21.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.54 £31.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.69% +15.49% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £85.48 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% +10.17% +31.11%

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 26 April 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 April 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
South East -44 30 £715 +35.55% 29
North of England -85 10 £531 +11.84% 39
Midlands -60 8 £575 -11.54% 23
North West -44 6 £513 +20.59% 22
South West -30 5 £525 -10.26% 5
West Midlands -60 5 £548 -15.77% 14
Yorkshire -62 4 £600 +26.32% 12
Scotland +6 3 - - 2
East Midlands -36 3 £675 +50.00% 9
East of England -34 2 £474 -1.04% 4
Wales -8 1 £425 +6.25% 1
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 2 (3.39%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 19 (32.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.69%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.69%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.69%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) dbt
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) SaaS
5 4 (6.78%) PaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) BGP
2 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.69%) IPsec
2 1 (1.69%) IPv6
2 1 (1.69%) MPLS
2 1 (1.69%) Multicast
2 1 (1.69%) MVNO
2 1 (1.69%) OSPF
2 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.69%) SNMP
2 1 (1.69%) VoIP
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Wireless
2 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.39%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.69%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.69%) Power BI
2 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Postman
2 1 (1.69%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.08%) Marketing
5 3 (5.08%) Retail
6 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Aviation
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Lead
2 13 (22.03%) Data Migration Lead
3 11 (18.64%) Senior
4 9 (15.25%) Architect
5 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Consultant
7 4 (6.78%) Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Programme Manager
7 4 (6.78%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (6.78%) SAP Data Migration Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.08%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.08%) SAP Manager
8 3 (5.08%) SAP Programme Manager
9 2 (3.39%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) PySpark
2 3 (5.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) React
4 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.69%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Next.js
4 1 (1.69%) Node.js
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) Spring
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) CMDB
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.69%) VMS
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Migration
2 19 (32.20%) Data Migration
3 11 (18.64%) Analytics
4 10 (16.95%) Data Cleansing
4 10 (16.95%) DevOps
5 8 (13.56%) ERP
5 8 (13.56%) ETL
5 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.86%) Agile
6 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.86%) Data Analysis
6 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (10.17%) Data Engineering
7 6 (10.17%) E-Commerce
7 6 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.17%) Validation
8 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (6.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) SQL
2 10 (16.95%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) Bicep
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 16 (27.12%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.39%) PMP
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.69%) CCDA
6 1 (1.69%) CCDP
6 1 (1.69%) CCIE
6 1 (1.69%) CCIP
6 1 (1.69%) CCNA
6 1 (1.69%) CCNP
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.69%) RHCA
6 1 (1.69%) RHCE
6 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
4 1 (1.69%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) CASB
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Packer
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) SAP
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.39%) OpenText
5 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Ariba
6 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) Concur
6 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) Juniper
6 1 (1.69%) Meraki
6 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.69%) Progress
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.69%) VMware
106 Greenfield Project jobs in the UK excluding London