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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 290 304
Rank change year-on-year -63 +14 -37
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 82 57 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.44% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 1.31% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 46 70
10th Percentile £439 £400 £379
25th Percentile £506 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £733 £602 £575
90th Percentile £938 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £62.30 - -
25th Percentile £80.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.13% +128.57% -39.13%

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 7,393 4,345 5,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.62% 33.41% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,533 2,667 3,572
10th Percentile £268 £210 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 307 743
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.44 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £14.17
Median hourly rate £43.85 £32.05 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +36.83% -6.31% +55.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.35 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +59.09%

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 1 June 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 June 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 June 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 -33 36 £560 +10.89% 27
North of England -85 12 £600 +20.00% 37
South West -21 11 £625 +6.84% 5
Midlands -53 10 £520 +15.56% 23
Scotland +1 7 £875 +94.44% 3
North West -52 7 £513 +20.59% 21
East of England -29 6 £460 -3.92% 10
West Midlands -53 6 £575 +43.75% 17
East Midlands -28 4 £460 +2.22% 6
North East -29 3 £875 +45.83% 7
Yorkshire -60 2 - - 9
Wales -11 1 £425 +6.25% 2
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 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 20 (24.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.22%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (1.22%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.22%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.22%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.29%) Azure
2 6 (7.32%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) dbt
4 4 (4.88%) SaaS
5 3 (3.66%) GCP
5 3 (3.66%) GitHub
5 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.44%) PaaS
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.22%) IaaS
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Firewall
1 2 (2.44%) NAS
1 2 (2.44%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) BGP
2 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.22%) IPsec
2 1 (1.22%) IPv6
2 1 (1.22%) MPLS
2 1 (1.22%) Multicast
2 1 (1.22%) MVNO
2 1 (1.22%) OSPF
2 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.22%) SNMP
2 1 (1.22%) VoIP
2 1 (1.22%) VPN
2 1 (1.22%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.22%) WAN
2 1 (1.22%) Wireless
2 1 (1.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.22%) Power BI
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Postman
2 2 (2.44%) Newman
3 1 (1.22%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) GitLab
3 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.39%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Banking
4 6 (7.32%) Front Office
4 6 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.88%) Retail
6 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.44%) Aviation
7 2 (2.44%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.44%) Legal
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Advertising
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Lead
2 15 (18.29%) Senior
3 11 (13.41%) Data Migration Lead
4 10 (12.20%) Architect
5 8 (9.76%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Developer
6 7 (8.54%) React Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior React Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior UI Developer
7 6 (7.32%) UI Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Analyst
8 5 (6.10%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) React
2 6 (7.32%) Redux
3 5 (6.10%) PySpark
4 3 (3.66%) .NET
5 2 (2.44%) Celery
5 2 (2.44%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.44%) Kafka
5 2 (2.44%) Pandas
5 2 (2.44%) pytest
5 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.44%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.44%) XML
5 2 (2.44%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.22%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (1.22%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.22%) Next.js
6 1 (1.22%) Node.js
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.54%) Fixed Income
3 6 (7.32%) Equities
3 6 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) CMDB
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Migration
2 16 (19.51%) Data Migration
3 11 (13.41%) Agile
4 10 (12.20%) Analytics
5 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (10.98%) ETL
6 8 (9.76%) CI/CD
6 8 (9.76%) DevOps
6 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.76%) Scrum
6 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.54%) Roadmaps
7 7 (8.54%) Validation
8 6 (7.32%) Electronic Trading
8 6 (7.32%) Low Latency
8 6 (7.32%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (7.32%) Test Strategy
9 5 (6.10%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.07%) Python
2 12 (14.63%) SQL
3 8 (9.76%) C#
3 8 (9.76%) Java
4 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) Perl
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Degree
5 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CCDA
6 1 (1.22%) CCDP
6 1 (1.22%) CCIE
6 1 (1.22%) CCIP
6 1 (1.22%) CCNA
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.22%) RHCA
6 1 (1.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.54%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.22%) NCSC
5 1 (1.22%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.66%) Terraform
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.22%) CASB
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.22%) Packer
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) SAP
2 7 (8.54%) Databricks
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Progress
4 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Ariba
5 2 (2.44%) OpenText
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.44%) Veritas
6 1 (1.22%) Aruba
6 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco
6 1 (1.22%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.22%) HP
6 1 (1.22%) Juniper
6 1 (1.22%) Meraki
6 1 (1.22%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.22%) VMware