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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 263 287
Rank change year-on-year -117 +24 -37
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 58 69 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 1.62% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 74
10th Percentile £503 £400 £368
25th Percentile £512 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -4.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £733 £603 £566
90th Percentile £763 £695 £659
UK median daily rate £560 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -0.44% -6.25% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £62.30 - -
25th Percentile £80.75 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.31% -25.71% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £27.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £53.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.66% +51.43% -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 6,990 4,260 6,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.79% 33.22% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 2,627 3,697
10th Percentile £233 £207 £206
25th Percentile £375 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £595
90th Percentile £675 £668 £687
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 301 713
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +22.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70.62 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.41 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +16.07% +24.44%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -32 30 £715 +35.55% 29
North of England -82 10 £531 +11.84% 35
Midlands -65 7 £548 -15.77% 21
North West -46 6 £513 +17.14% 22
South West -31 5 £525 -10.26% 4
Yorkshire -55 4 £600 +26.32% 8
West Midlands -64 4 £520 -20.00% 14
Scotland +1 3 - - 4
East Midlands -32 3 £675 +50.00% 7
East of England -28 2 £474 +0.80% 4
Wales -10 1 £425 +6.25% 3
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 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 18 (31.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.72%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.72%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.72%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) dbt
4 5 (8.62%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) PaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) IaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) BGP
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.72%) IPsec
2 1 (1.72%) IPv6
2 1 (1.72%) MPLS
2 1 (1.72%) Multicast
2 1 (1.72%) MVNO
2 1 (1.72%) OSPF
2 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.72%) SNMP
2 1 (1.72%) VoIP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.72%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) Wireless
2 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.45%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Finance
2 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing
4 3 (5.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Aviation
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Lead
2 13 (22.41%) Data Migration Lead
3 11 (18.97%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Programme Manager
7 4 (6.90%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) SAP Data Migration Lead
7 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.17%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.17%) SAP Manager
8 3 (5.17%) SAP Programme Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.45%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) PySpark
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) React
4 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (1.72%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.72%) Kafka
4 1 (1.72%) Next.js
4 1 (1.72%) Node.js
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) Spring
4 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) CMDB
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.72%) VMS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Migration
2 18 (31.03%) Data Migration
3 11 (18.97%) Analytics
4 10 (17.24%) Data Cleansing
4 10 (17.24%) DevOps
5 8 (13.79%) ERP
5 8 (13.79%) ETL
5 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.07%) Agile
6 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis
6 7 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (10.34%) Data Engineering
7 6 (10.34%) E-Commerce
7 6 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.34%) Validation
8 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) SQL
2 10 (17.24%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PMP
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) CCDA
6 1 (1.72%) CCDP
6 1 (1.72%) CCIE
6 1 (1.72%) CCIP
6 1 (1.72%) CCNA
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) RHCA
6 1 (1.72%) RHCE
6 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) CASB
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Packer
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) SAP
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) OpenText
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Ariba
6 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Concur
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) Juniper
6 1 (1.72%) Meraki
6 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.72%) Progress
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.72%) VMware
103 Greenfield Project jobs in the UK excluding London