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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 305 259
Rank change year-on-year +35 -46 -9
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 64 98 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.47% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.61% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 71 176
10th Percentile £400 £363 £341
25th Percentile £410 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +0.25% +2.07%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £614
90th Percentile £680 £788 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +128.57% -39.13% +422.73%

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 4,237 6,073 7,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.15% 29.39% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,646 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £617
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 726 435
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.91 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.62 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +29.55% +6.98%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.71 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.58 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.81% +36.00% -18.24%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +1 27 £475 -4.04% 108
North West -4 15 £425 -14.14% 78
South East +41 10 £505 +1.00% 110
Midlands +15 10 £550 +2.80% 40
West Midlands +20 7 £650 +23.81% 19
Scotland +12 6 £388 -11.93% 6
Yorkshire +9 6 £475 +5.56% 16
North East +4 6 £600 -4.00% 15
South West +35 5 £585 +31.83% 15
East of England +27 3 £479 -44.49% 26
Northern Ireland -8 3 £410 - 2
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -28.00% 18
Wales +5 1 £400 -5.88% 4
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 4 (6.25%) Apache
1 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) AWS
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) SaaS
3 4 (6.25%) Figma
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.69%) Serverless
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.13%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.56%) dbt
6 1 (1.56%) OCI
6 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) Big Data
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.13%) HBase
3 2 (3.13%) Impala
3 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Selenium
3 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) JMeter
3 2 (3.13%) Postman
3 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.56%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
General
1 11 (17.19%) Finance
2 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Developer
1 14 (21.88%) Senior
2 10 (15.63%) Architect
2 10 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Designer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.25%) UI Designer
6 4 (6.25%) UI/UX Designer
6 4 (6.25%) UX Designer
7 3 (4.69%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) React
2 8 (12.50%) .NET
2 8 (12.50%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.81%) Kafka
4 3 (4.69%) JSON
4 3 (4.69%) SAP PI
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.56%) Flask
6 1 (1.56%) HTML
6 1 (1.56%) Middleware
6 1 (1.56%) NumPy
6 1 (1.56%) pytest
6 1 (1.56%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.56%) Redux
6 1 (1.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.56%) Learning Management System
2 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) Software Engineering
2 12 (18.75%) Agile
3 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.38%) DevOps
5 6 (9.38%) Migration
6 5 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
6 5 (7.81%) Microservices
6 5 (7.81%) Scrum
6 5 (7.81%) Test Automation
6 5 (7.81%) User Experience
7 4 (6.25%) Business Strategy
7 4 (6.25%) Data Modelling
7 4 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.25%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (6.25%) UX Design
8 3 (4.69%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
2 10 (15.63%) Python
3 9 (14.06%) SQL
4 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.94%) Java
6 6 (9.38%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (1.56%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Basel III
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
1 2 (3.13%) HDFS
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Oracle
2 4 (6.25%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) SAP
3 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.13%) Nintex
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.13%) Tenable
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Planview
4 1 (1.56%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds