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 23 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 263 279
Rank change year-on-year -96 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 54 83 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 1.89% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 96
10th Percentile £381 £400 £338
25th Percentile £460 £439 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +4.27% +2.05%
75th Percentile £622 £603 £600
90th Percentile £746 £675 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +34.29% -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% +94.29% -

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 6,372 4,395 6,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.45% 33.00% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,960 2,547 3,774
10th Percentile £200 £200 £208
25th Percentile £358 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 241 631
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.51 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.08 £22.72 £15.67
Median hourly rate £30.05 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -5.00% +55.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £33.27 £31.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.62% +40.09%

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 23 February 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
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 23 February 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 -26 17 £560 - 27
North of England -74 15 £550 +12.24% 38
North West -43 11 £550 +13.99% 20
Midlands -54 10 £516 -6.14% 19
Scotland +11 7 £388 -8.82%
West Midlands -55 6 £516 -20.58% 11
East Midlands -27 4 £563 +2.27% 8
Yorkshire -60 4 £600 +26.32% 11
South West -23 3 £525 -10.26% 10
Wales -5 1 £425 - 2
East of England -32 1 £488 +3.72% 7
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 (3.70%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 11 (20.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.85%) Maximo
3 1 (1.85%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.85%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 5 (9.26%) SaaS
4 4 (7.41%) dbt
4 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) PaaS
5 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
1 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.56%) VSAN
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) BGP
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.85%) IPsec
3 1 (1.85%) IPv6
3 1 (1.85%) MPLS
3 1 (1.85%) Multicast
3 1 (1.85%) MVNO
3 1 (1.85%) OSPF
3 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.85%) VoIP
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (1.85%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) Wireless
3 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.70%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Gradle
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Selenium
2 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (3.70%) Aviation
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Private Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Senior
2 9 (16.67%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Lead
3 7 (12.96%) Architect
3 7 (12.96%) Data Migration Lead
4 5 (9.26%) SAP Data Migration Lead
5 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Programme Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Manager
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Programme Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
2 4 (7.41%) PySpark
3 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.70%) Kafka
3 2 (3.70%) Playwright
3 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) HTML5
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Node.js
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Sass
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) VMS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
1 15 (27.78%) Migration
2 12 (22.22%) Agile
2 12 (22.22%) DevOps
3 10 (18.52%) Data Migration
3 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.67%) Analytics
4 9 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
6 6 (11.11%) AI
6 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) ERP
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (7.41%) Kanban
8 4 (7.41%) Microservices
8 4 (7.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) SQL
2 9 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) Bash
3 3 (5.56%) Go
3 3 (5.56%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.70%) C#
4 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CCDA
5 1 (1.85%) CCDP
5 1 (1.85%) CCIE
5 1 (1.85%) CCIP
5 1 (1.85%) CCNA
5 1 (1.85%) CCNP
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) PMO
4 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) vSphere
3 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Ansible
1 5 (9.26%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Argo
3 1 (1.85%) CASB
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) SAP
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Ariba
5 1 (1.85%) Arista
5 1 (1.85%) Aruba
5 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Concur
5 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) Juniper
5 1 (1.85%) Meraki
5 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler