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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 241 258
Rank change year-on-year -92 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 64 97 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 2.18% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 55 108
10th Percentile £381 £381 £325
25th Percentile £419 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £583 £606
90th Percentile £675 £725 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £63.70 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 -

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 5,932 4,442 5,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.61% 31.51% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 2,484 3,784
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 242 399
10th Percentile £13.12 £18.18 £15.57
25th Percentile £17.20 £22.72 £18.58
Median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% -26.97% +96.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £82.03 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £33.54 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.44% -16.15% +43.11%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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
North of England -58 23 £550 +12.24% 59
South East -29 15 £580 +1.75% 63
North West -40 13 £550 +12.24% 36
Scotland -2 10 £438 -2.78% 6
Yorkshire -40 10 £600 +26.32% 19
Midlands -44 8 £473 -14.09% 41
South West -9 5 £525 -20.00% 19
East Midlands -27 4 £473 -14.09% 16
West Midlands -44 4 £506 -22.12% 23
East of England -15 3 £460 +2.22% 28
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 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.56%) CMS
1 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (20.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) Maximo
3 1 (1.56%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
3 5 (7.81%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.25%) dbt
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) DNS
1 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (4.69%) ClickHouse
2 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.69%) MySQL
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.69%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (3.13%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.69%) JIRA
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.13%) GitLab
5 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.56%) Gradle
5 1 (1.56%) Postman
5 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Private Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Lead
3 8 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Data Migration Lead
5 5 (7.81%) SAP Data Migration Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Automation Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 2 (3.13%) SAP Manager
8 2 (3.13%) SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) CSS
2 6 (9.38%) HTML
3 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.25%) PySpark
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
5 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.69%) jQuery
5 3 (4.69%) React
5 3 (4.69%) REST
6 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.13%) JSON
6 2 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.13%) RESTful
6 2 (3.13%) SAP PI
6 2 (3.13%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.13%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (3.13%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Agile
2 18 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.88%) DevOps
4 12 (18.75%) Migration
4 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.06%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.50%) Analytics
6 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.94%) Data Cleansing
7 7 (10.94%) Data Modelling
7 7 (10.94%) Front End Development
7 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.38%) Roadmaps
8 6 (9.38%) Scrum
8 6 (9.38%) User Experience
9 5 (7.81%) Microservices
9 5 (7.81%) MVC
9 5 (7.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 7 (10.94%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.81%) C#
6 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.69%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) Go
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.69%) vSphere
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Ansible
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) SAP
2 6 (9.38%) Databricks
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) GoldenSource
3 3 (4.69%) VMware
4 2 (3.13%) Ariba
4 2 (3.13%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.13%) Concur
4 2 (3.13%) Progress
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) IBM