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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 288 276
Rank change year-on-year -57 -12 -4
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 106 69 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 1.37% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 78
10th Percentile £413 £400 £393
25th Percentile £500 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -4.52% +4.74%
75th Percentile £778 £575 £584
90th Percentile £938 £675 £666
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65.38 - -
25th Percentile £80.88 - -
Median hourly rate £83.75 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £83.75 - -

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 8,232 5,042 5,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.43% 33.53% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 2,986 3,350
10th Percentile £283 £225 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £575 £600
90th Percentile £687 £650 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £542
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 405 564
10th Percentile £15.68 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -27.71% -9.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.42 £80.00 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -39 41 £555 - 24
North of England -75 26 £650 +30.00% 30
South West -26 15 £750 +28.21% 14
North West -49 12 £588 +30.56% 14
East of England -13 10 £460 -0.54% 6
Midlands -53 10 £548 +21.67% 24
North East -36 7 £875 +45.83% 6
Yorkshire -46 7 £600 +19.76% 10
West Midlands -50 6 £688 +71.88% 11
Scotland -16 5 £875 +81.82% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £460 +2.22% 13
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 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
2 1 (0.94%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 27 (25.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.89%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.89%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.89%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.89%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.94%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (0.94%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.94%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.09%) Azure
2 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.72%) AWS
3 5 (4.72%) GitHub
3 5 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.77%) dbt
4 4 (3.77%) GCP
4 4 (3.77%) SaaS
5 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.89%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.89%) PaaS
6 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.94%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.94%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) NAS
1 2 (1.89%) SAN
2 1 (0.94%) BGP
2 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
2 1 (0.94%) IPsec
2 1 (0.94%) IPv6
2 1 (0.94%) MPLS
2 1 (0.94%) Multicast
2 1 (0.94%) MVNO
2 1 (0.94%) OSPF
2 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.94%) SNMP
2 1 (0.94%) VoIP
2 1 (0.94%) VPN
2 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.94%) WAN
2 1 (0.94%) Wireless
2 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.94%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Postman
2 3 (2.83%) Newman
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (34.91%) Finance
2 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Banking
4 13 (12.26%) Front Office
4 13 (12.26%) Investment Banking
4 13 (12.26%) Retail
5 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.77%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.77%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Legal
10 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.94%) Advertising
11 1 (0.94%) Aviation
11 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.42%) Lead
2 23 (21.70%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Java Developer
4 14 (13.21%) React Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Senior Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Architect
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior React Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior UI Developer
5 13 (12.26%) UI Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Data Migration Lead
7 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.72%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.15%) React
2 13 (12.26%) Redux
3 5 (4.72%) .NET
4 4 (3.77%) Kafka
4 4 (3.77%) PySpark
4 4 (3.77%) REST
4 4 (3.77%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (2.83%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (2.83%) Great Expectations
5 3 (2.83%) Pandas
5 3 (2.83%) pytest
5 3 (2.83%) XML
5 3 (2.83%) XML Schema
6 2 (1.89%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.89%) Celery
6 2 (1.89%) SAP Basis
6 2 (1.89%) SOAP
6 2 (1.89%) Spring
6 2 (1.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Fixed Income
2 13 (12.26%) Equities
2 13 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Life Science
5 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.83%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.94%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.47%) Migration
2 21 (19.81%) Data Migration
3 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (14.15%) Agile
5 13 (12.26%) Electronic Trading
5 13 (12.26%) Low Latency
6 11 (10.38%) Analytics
6 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
6 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (9.43%) ERP
8 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (8.49%) ETL
8 9 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (8.49%) Validation
9 8 (7.55%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.55%) Decision-Making
10 7 (6.60%) Data Modelling
10 7 (6.60%) DevOps
10 7 (6.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.04%) C#
2 15 (14.15%) Java
3 14 (13.21%) Python
3 14 (13.21%) TypeScript
4 13 (12.26%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.26%) SQL
5 2 (1.89%) ABAP
5 2 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (31.13%) Security Cleared
2 30 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.83%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) CCDA
6 1 (0.94%) CCDP
6 1 (0.94%) CCIE
6 1 (0.94%) CCIP
6 1 (0.94%) CCNA
6 1 (0.94%) CCNP
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) RHCA
6 1 (0.94%) RHCE
6 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.66%) QA
3 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.77%) NIST
5 3 (2.83%) P3O
5 3 (2.83%) PMO
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
7 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.94%) GDPR
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
7 1 (0.94%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.89%) Ansible
2 2 (1.89%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.94%) CASB
3 1 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.94%) Packer
3 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (28.30%) SAP
2 13 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.60%) Databricks
4 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.83%) Ariba
5 3 (2.83%) Progress
6 2 (1.89%) OpenText
6 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) Veritas
7 1 (0.94%) Aruba
7 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.94%) Foundry
7 1 (0.94%) Meraki
7 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.94%) VMware