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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 309 261
Rank change year-on-year -48 -48 -4
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 112 64 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.42% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 1.21% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 48 77
10th Percentile £413 £394 £410
25th Percentile £463 £417 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £735 £554 £590
90th Percentile £938 £675 £735
UK median daily rate £575 £568 £579
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.99% +5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £72.50 - £57.36
25th Percentile £80.88 - £61.35
Median hourly rate £83.75 - £68.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £71.43
90th Percentile £88.75 - £73.49
UK median hourly rate £83.75 - £68.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.26%

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 8,460 5,278 5,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.61% 34.43% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 3,148 3,004
10th Percentile £281 £220 £213
25th Percentile £405 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £688 £657 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 412 442
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.80 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.22 £18.27
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -42.86% +15.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +3.75%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -36 39 £550 +10.00% 38
North of England -55 33 £600 +19.76% 56
North West -48 15 £550 +22.22% 39
South West -29 14 £725 +52.63% 17
East of England -14 12 £460 - 11
Yorkshire -36 11 £631 +1.00% 11
Midlands -54 10 £800 +77.78% 32
East Midlands -14 7 £460 +2.22% 15
North East -39 7 £875 +45.83% 6
Scotland -21 6 £875 +94.44% 13
West Midlands -49 3 £800 +33.33% 17
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 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.89%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (24.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.68%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.68%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.68%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.79%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.79%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.89%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.89%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.89%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.89%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.07%) Azure
2 9 (8.04%) AWS
3 7 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.36%) GCP
5 5 (4.46%) GitHub
5 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.57%) dbt
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.79%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.89%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.89%) n8n
8 1 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.89%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) NAS
1 2 (1.79%) SAN
2 1 (0.89%) BGP
2 1 (0.89%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.89%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (0.89%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.89%) IPsec
2 1 (0.89%) Junos
2 1 (0.89%) Network Security
2 1 (0.89%) NX-OS
2 1 (0.89%) OSPF
2 1 (0.89%) SSL
2 1 (0.89%) VLAN
2 1 (0.89%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) Couchbase
1 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (2.68%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.79%) Flink
3 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Newman
1 3 (2.68%) Postman
2 1 (0.89%) GitLab
2 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (38.39%) Finance
2 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.64%) Banking
4 17 (15.18%) Retail
5 13 (11.61%) Front Office
5 13 (11.61%) Investment Banking
6 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.46%) General Ledger
9 4 (3.57%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Legal
12 1 (0.89%) Advertising
12 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.89%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 30 (26.79%) Lead
2 25 (22.32%) Senior
3 15 (13.39%) Developer
3 15 (13.39%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.61%) React Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior Java Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior React Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior UI Developer
4 13 (11.61%) UI Developer
5 12 (10.71%) Architect
6 9 (8.04%) Data Migration Lead
7 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Consultant
8 6 (5.36%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.46%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.46%) SAP Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) React
1 13 (11.61%) Redux
2 9 (8.04%) Kafka
3 7 (6.25%) REST
4 6 (5.36%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (4.46%) Spring
6 4 (3.57%) PySpark
6 4 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.68%) .NET
7 3 (2.68%) Great Expectations
7 3 (2.68%) Pandas
7 3 (2.68%) pytest
7 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.68%) SAP Basis
7 3 (2.68%) SAPUI5
7 3 (2.68%) SOAP
7 3 (2.68%) XML
7 3 (2.68%) XML Schema
8 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Equities
1 13 (11.61%) Fixed Income
1 13 (11.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.57%) Digital Currency
4 4 (3.57%) Life Science
5 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.89%) CMDB
7 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.89%) FMCG
7 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.89%) SUSE
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) Migration
2 21 (18.75%) Data Migration
3 19 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (14.29%) Agile
5 13 (11.61%) Electronic Trading
5 13 (11.61%) Low Latency
6 12 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (9.82%) ERP
8 10 (8.93%) Microservices
8 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
8 10 (8.93%) Validation
9 9 (8.04%) Analytics
9 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (8.04%) ETL
9 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (7.14%) Change Management
10 8 (7.14%) Event-Driven
11 7 (6.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.86%) Java
2 16 (14.29%) C#
3 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.61%) Python
3 13 (11.61%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.71%) SQL
5 3 (2.68%) ABAP
6 2 (1.79%) Perl
7 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (25.89%) SC Cleared
1 29 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.93%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.68%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.68%) PMP
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.89%) CCA
7 1 (0.89%) CCIE
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.89%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.89%) RHCA
7 1 (0.89%) RHCE
7 1 (0.89%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.89%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.57%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) P3O
3 4 (3.57%) PMO
4 2 (1.79%) GRC
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) IFRS
5 1 (0.89%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.79%) Ansible
2 2 (1.79%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.89%) Packer
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) SAP
2 13 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.25%) Databricks
4 4 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.68%) Ariba
5 3 (2.68%) Progress
6 2 (1.79%) OpenText
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.79%) Veritas
7 1 (0.89%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.89%) F5
7 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry
7 1 (0.89%) Juniper
7 1 (0.89%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.89%) Workday