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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 317 246
Rank change year-on-year -38 -71 +28
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 128 63 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.41% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 1.19% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 46 76
10th Percentile £394 £394 £406
25th Percentile £463 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% +0.51%
75th Percentile £733 £550 £590
90th Percentile £938 £656 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.09% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.36
25th Percentile £64.25 - £61.35
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £68.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £71.43
90th Percentile £87.25 - £73.49
UK median hourly rate £82.00 - £68.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 8,745 5,292 5,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.03% 34.67% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,032 3,159 2,888
10th Percentile £281 £222 £213
25th Percentile £405 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £576 £600
90th Percentile £688 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 423 367
10th Percentile £13.56 £14.13 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.36 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% -47.69% +17.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.06
UK median hourly rate £37.88 £29.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.39% -41.00% +12.36%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -32 44 £539 +10.34% 47
North of England -51 38 £600 +19.76% 51
North West -39 20 £525 +16.67% 35
South West -22 19 £500 -14.89% 19
East of England -24 12 £460 - 18
Yorkshire -44 11 £631 +1.00% 8
Midlands -50 11 £800 +77.78% 26
East Midlands -14 8 £460 +2.22% 5
North East -29 7 £875 +45.83% 8
Scotland -26 6 £875 +94.44% 16
West Midlands -48 3 £800 +33.33% 21
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 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (21.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.34%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.34%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.34%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.56%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.56%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.78%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.78%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.78%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.78%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.63%) Azure
2 10 (7.81%) AWS
3 8 (6.25%) GCP
4 7 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.69%) GitHub
5 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.13%) dbt
7 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.34%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.34%) SaaS
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.78%) Serverless
9 1 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.78%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) NAS
1 2 (1.56%) SAN
2 1 (0.78%) BGP
2 1 (0.78%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.78%) IPsec
2 1 (0.78%) Junos
2 1 (0.78%) Network Security
2 1 (0.78%) NGFW
2 1 (0.78%) NX-OS
2 1 (0.78%) OSPF
2 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.78%) VLAN
2 1 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.13%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.34%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.56%) Flink
3 2 (1.56%) Metadata
3 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.78%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Newman
1 3 (2.34%) Postman
2 2 (1.56%) Selenium
3 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (36.72%) Finance
2 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Banking
4 18 (14.06%) Retail
5 13 (10.16%) Front Office
5 13 (10.16%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.91%) General Ledger
9 4 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.34%) Legal
10 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) iGaming
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Billing
12 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Lead
2 27 (21.09%) Senior
3 16 (12.50%) Developer
3 16 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 14 (10.94%) Architect
4 14 (10.94%) Senior Developer
4 14 (10.94%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (10.16%) React Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Senior React Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Senior UI Developer
5 13 (10.16%) UI Developer
6 9 (7.03%) Data Migration Lead
7 8 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Consultant
9 6 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (3.91%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.91%) SAP Architect
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.16%) React
1 13 (10.16%) Redux
2 12 (9.38%) Kafka
3 9 (7.03%) REST
4 7 (5.47%) Spring
5 6 (4.69%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.91%) .NET
7 4 (3.13%) PySpark
8 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.34%) Pandas
8 3 (2.34%) pytest
8 3 (2.34%) RxJava
8 3 (2.34%) SAML
8 3 (2.34%) SAP Basis
8 3 (2.34%) SAPUI5
8 3 (2.34%) SOAP
8 3 (2.34%) XML
8 3 (2.34%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Equities
1 13 (10.16%) Fixed Income
1 13 (10.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.47%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.13%) Digital Currency
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Life Science
4 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.34%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) FMCG
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 3 (2.34%) Linux
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) SUSE
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.31%) Migration
2 21 (16.41%) Data Migration
3 20 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (13.28%) Agile
4 17 (13.28%) CI/CD
5 13 (10.16%) Electronic Trading
5 13 (10.16%) ERP
5 13 (10.16%) Low Latency
5 13 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (9.38%) Event-Driven
6 12 (9.38%) Microservices
6 12 (9.38%) Validation
7 11 (8.59%) Roadmaps
7 11 (8.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (7.81%) Analytics
8 10 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (7.81%) ETL
8 10 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.03%) DevOps
9 9 (7.03%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) Java
2 18 (14.06%) C#
3 15 (11.72%) Python
4 14 (10.94%) SQL
5 13 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.16%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.34%) ABAP
7 2 (1.56%) Perl
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (22.66%) SC Cleared
1 29 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.81%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Degree
4 4 (3.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.34%) PMP
6 1 (0.78%) CCA
6 1 (0.78%) CCIE
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.78%) JNCIE
6 1 (0.78%) RHCA
6 1 (0.78%) RHCE
6 1 (0.78%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.13%) NIST
3 4 (3.13%) P3O
3 4 (3.13%) PMO
4 2 (1.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 8 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.56%) Ansible
2 2 (1.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.78%) Packer
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (24.22%) SAP
2 14 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) Databricks
4 4 (3.13%) Oracle
4 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.34%) Ariba
6 2 (1.56%) F5
6 2 (1.56%) OpenText
6 2 (1.56%) Progress
6 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.56%) Veritas
7 1 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.78%) Foundry
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) New Relic
7 1 (0.78%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk