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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 261 286
Rank change year-on-year -89 +25 -46
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 56 87 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 1.98% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 93
10th Percentile £381 £400 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +1.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £698 £715 £845
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £63.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% +82.00% -
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 6,318 4,405 6,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.76% 32.55% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 2,513 3,811
10th Percentile £200 £200 £207
25th Percentile £355 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £676 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 232 618
10th Percentile £14.24 £19.31 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.91 £23.52 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.08% +60.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £82.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.74 £35.13 £32.31
% change year-on-year -15.33% +8.72% +43.92%

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 12 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 12 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 -34 16 £560 -1.75% 35
North of England -83 15 £550 +12.24% 35
North West -36 11 £550 +13.99% 22
Midlands -54 10 £516 -6.14% 20
Scotland +9 8 £413 -8.33%
West Midlands -50 6 £516 -20.58% 12
East Midlands -24 4 £563 +2.27% 8
Yorkshire -61 4 £600 +26.32% 10
South West -21 3 £525 -14.29% 8
East of England -26 3 £460 -2.13% 5
Wales 0 1 £425 - 5
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 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 10 (17.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.79%) Maximo
3 1 (1.79%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.79%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 4 (7.14%) dbt
4 4 (7.14%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) Serverless
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub
5 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) DNS
1 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.36%) VSAN
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) BGP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.79%) IPsec
3 1 (1.79%) IPv6
3 1 (1.79%) MPLS
3 1 (1.79%) Multicast
3 1 (1.79%) OSPF
3 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.79%) SNMP
3 1 (1.79%) VoIP
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
3 1 (1.79%) Wireless
3 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.36%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (3.57%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Gradle
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Selenium
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Marketing
5 2 (3.57%) Aviation
5 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Senior
2 10 (17.86%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) Lead
3 7 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (10.71%) Data Migration Lead
5 5 (8.93%) SAP Data Migration Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Programme Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) QA Manager
8 2 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) SAP Programme Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 4 (7.14%) PySpark
3 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.57%) CSS
4 2 (3.57%) HTML
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Playwright
4 2 (3.57%) React
4 2 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.79%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) Next.js
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.79%) Sass
5 1 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) VMS
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Agile
1 16 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (25.00%) Migration
3 13 (23.21%) DevOps
4 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.07%) Analytics
5 9 (16.07%) Data Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
7 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.71%) AI
8 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.71%) Scrum
9 5 (8.93%) ERP
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (8.93%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (8.93%) Microservices
9 5 (8.93%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (7.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) SQL
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) Java
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
4 3 (5.36%) Go
4 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) CCDA
5 1 (1.79%) CCDP
5 1 (1.79%) CCIE
5 1 (1.79%) CCIP
5 1 (1.79%) CCNA
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.93%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
1 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.36%) vSphere
3 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Ansible
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Argo
3 1 (1.79%) CASB
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) SAP
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Databricks
3 4 (7.14%) VMware
4 2 (3.57%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.57%) Progress
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Ariba
5 1 (1.79%) Arista
5 1 (1.79%) Aruba
5 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Juniper
5 1 (1.79%) Meraki
5 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.79%) Zscaler