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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 300 259
Rank change year-on-year -50 -41 +16
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 112 65 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 1.24% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 48 76
10th Percentile £413 £398 £409
25th Percentile £463 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £738 £574 £590
90th Percentile £938 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £580
% change year-on-year - -0.86% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £72.50 - £56.39
25th Percentile £80.88 - £58.93
Median hourly rate £83.75 - £66.32
75th Percentile £85.00 - £72.18
90th Percentile £88.75 - £73.79
UK median hourly rate £83.75 - £66.32
% change year-on-year - - +15.34%

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 8,420 5,231 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.46% 34.16% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,998 3,107 3,091
10th Percentile £282 £225 £213
25th Percentile £404 £363 £399
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 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 419 464
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.78 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.99 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -38.78% +7.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +2.66%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -40 38 £545 -0.91% 25
North of England -54 32 £600 +19.76% 32
South West -31 16 £725 +52.63% 7
North West -32 15 £550 +22.22% 22
East of England -13 12 £460 - 4
Yorkshire -39 10 £600 -4.00% 5
Midlands -62 10 £800 +77.78% 21
East Midlands -18 7 £460 +2.22% 7
North East -33 7 £875 +45.83% 5
Scotland -15 6 £875 +94.44% 1
West Midlands -45 3 £800 +33.33% 14
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 19 (16.96%) Azure
2 8 (7.14%) AWS
3 7 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.46%) GCP
4 5 (4.46%) GitHub
4 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.57%) dbt
6 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
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%) n8n
8 1 (0.89%) PaaS
8 1 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.89%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) NAS
1 2 (1.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) Couchbase
1 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (2.68%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.89%) Flink
2 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.89%) MySQL
2 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.89%) Power BI
2 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
2 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 24 (21.43%) Senior
3 16 (14.29%) Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Java Developer
5 14 (12.50%) React Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Architect
6 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Senior React Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Senior UI Developer
6 13 (11.61%) UI Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Data Migration Lead
8 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) Programme Manager
10 5 (4.46%) SAP Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) React
2 13 (11.61%) Redux
3 8 (7.14%) Kafka
4 6 (5.36%) REST
4 6 (5.36%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (4.46%) Spring
6 4 (3.57%) .NET
6 4 (3.57%) PySpark
6 4 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET Core
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
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 13 (11.61%) Equities
2 13 (11.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.57%) Digital Currency
5 4 (3.57%) Life Science
6 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.68%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.89%) CMDB
8 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) FMCG
8 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Public 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 27 (24.11%) 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
7 11 (9.82%) ERP
7 11 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
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%) Microservices
9 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.04%) Validation
10 8 (7.14%) Change Management
11 7 (6.25%) Data Modelling
11 7 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) Java
2 17 (15.18%) C#
3 14 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.61%) Python
5 12 (10.71%) SQL
6 3 (2.68%) ABAP
7 2 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.25%) Degree
5 4 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.68%) PMP
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CCA
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) RHCA
8 1 (0.89%) RHCE
8 1 (0.89%) RHCSA
8 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%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.89%) Ansible
3 1 (0.89%) Packer
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) SAP
2 14 (12.50%) 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%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry
7 1 (0.89%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.89%) Workday