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

6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 273 294
Rank change year-on-year -95 +21 -39
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 64 63 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 1.49% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 49 69
10th Percentile £458 £400 £378
25th Percentile £506 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £733 £603 £600
90th Percentile £771 £680 £805
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% +1.35%
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% -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 7,145 4,227 6,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.62% 33.20% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,451 2,588 3,611
10th Percentile £255 £208 £208
25th Percentile £381 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.60% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 303 723
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.99 £14.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +11.44% +29.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.76 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.49 £83.37 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.13
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.42% +38.43%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -46 29 £715 +41.58% 33
Midlands -70 10 £520 +9.47% 14
North of England -79 10 £513 +7.89% 31
South West -36 6 £525 -10.26% 5
North West -48 6 £513 +20.59% 19
West Midlands -57 6 £575 -11.54% 8
Scotland -8 4 - - 2
East Midlands -27 4 £460 +2.22% 6
East of England -29 4 £460 -3.92% 5
Yorkshire -50 4 £600 +26.32% 6
Wales -9 1 £425 +6.25% 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 2 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 19 (29.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.56%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.56%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.56%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) dbt
3 5 (7.81%) GCP
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.25%) PaaS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) IaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) BGP
2 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.56%) IPsec
2 1 (1.56%) IPv6
2 1 (1.56%) MPLS
2 1 (1.56%) Multicast
2 1 (1.56%) MVNO
2 1 (1.56%) OSPF
2 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.56%) SNMP
2 1 (1.56%) VoIP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.56%) WAN
2 1 (1.56%) Wireless
2 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.56%) Power BI
1 1 (1.56%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.69%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Aviation
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Lead
2 12 (18.75%) Data Migration Lead
3 10 (15.63%) Architect
3 10 (15.63%) Senior
4 7 (10.94%) Data Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.69%) SAP Manager
7 3 (4.69%) SAP Programme Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Change Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) IT Change Manager
8 2 (3.13%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) PySpark
2 3 (4.69%) .NET
3 2 (3.13%) React
4 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.56%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.56%) Next.js
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.56%) VMS
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Migration
2 18 (28.13%) Data Migration
3 11 (17.19%) Analytics
4 10 (15.63%) Agile
5 9 (14.06%) DevOps
6 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.50%) ETL
6 8 (12.50%) Scrum
7 7 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (10.94%) ERP
7 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (9.38%) Data Engineering
8 6 (9.38%) E-Commerce
8 6 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (7.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Python
3 2 (3.13%) C#
3 2 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) Bicep
4 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.56%) CCDA
6 1 (1.56%) CCDP
6 1 (1.56%) CCIE
6 1 (1.56%) CCIP
6 1 (1.56%) CCNA
6 1 (1.56%) CCNP
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.56%) RHCA
6 1 (1.56%) RHCE
6 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) CASB
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Packer
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (34.38%) SAP
2 6 (9.38%) Databricks
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Progress
3 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.13%) OpenText
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Ariba
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Concur
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) HP
5 1 (1.56%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) Meraki
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.56%) VMware
90 Greenfield Project jobs in the UK excluding London