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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 252 273
Rank change year-on-year -53 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 63 117 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 2.28% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 75 118
10th Percentile £394 £406 £325
25th Percentile £419 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £600
90th Percentile £656 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £560 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -3.28% +5.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 £57.50
% 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 5,333 5,141 6,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.48% 28.87% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,180 2,923 4,379
10th Percentile £220 £213 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £604 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 386 343
10th Percentile £14.78 £13.78 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.56 £20.94
Median hourly rate £30.05 £57.35 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.60% +17.04% +124.98%
75th Percentile £58.56 £70.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.08 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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
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 17 September 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 -31 20 £501 +2.24% 48
South East +3 13 £488 -13.58% 63
Yorkshire -1 11 £625 +47.06% 5
Midlands -17 11 £450 -18.18% 19
East Midlands -5 8 £450 -18.18% 5
Scotland -15 8 £450 - 2
North West -43 8 £450 -8.16% 37
South West +21 4 £588 +6.82% 1
East of England +5 4 £460 -45.88% 7
Northern Ireland -5 3 £410 -8.89%
West Midlands -16 3 £600 +26.32% 14
North East -3 1 £600 -4.00% 6
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 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (12.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.59%) Primavera
2 1 (1.59%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.59%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) AWS
2 14 (22.22%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.52%) SaaS
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.35%) Serverless
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) Figma
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub
8 1 (1.59%) IaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) Stripe
8 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Big Data
2 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.76%) Apache Hive
3 3 (4.76%) ClickHouse
3 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.76%) Power Query
3 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) HBase
4 2 (3.17%) Impala
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) Postman
4 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) JMeter
4 2 (3.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 23 (36.51%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Retail
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.59%) Aviation
7 1 (1.59%) Banking
7 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Developer
2 8 (12.70%) Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark Developer
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) Automation Test Lead
8 2 (3.17%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.17%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) React
2 5 (7.94%) .NET
2 5 (7.94%) CSS
2 5 (7.94%) HTML
2 5 (7.94%) Node.js
3 4 (6.35%) JSON
3 4 (6.35%) RESTful
4 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (4.76%) jQuery
4 3 (4.76%) Kafka
4 3 (4.76%) SAP PI
4 3 (4.76%) Spring
4 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.17%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.17%) Compass CSS Framework
5 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.17%) REST
5 2 (3.17%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (3.17%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) FMCG
4 2 (3.17%) IoT
4 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Android
1 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Agile
2 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
2 13 (20.63%) DevOps
2 13 (20.63%) Software Engineering
3 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
4 8 (12.70%) Analytics
4 8 (12.70%) Front End Development
4 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (12.70%) Scrum
5 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (11.11%) Migration
5 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 6 (9.52%) TDD
7 5 (7.94%) Logistics
7 5 (7.94%) MVC
7 5 (7.94%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
1 12 (19.05%) TypeScript
2 9 (14.29%) Java
2 9 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (7.94%) C#
4 3 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.17%) R
6 1 (1.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) GoldenSource
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.17%) Nintex
4 2 (3.17%) Progress
5 1 (1.59%) Ariba
5 1 (1.59%) Concur