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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 310 261
Rank change year-on-year -33 -49 +17
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 132 62 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.16% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 45 71
10th Percentile £375 £394 £400
25th Percentile £460 £419 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% -0.76%
75th Percentile £733 £550 £584
90th Percentile £938 £660 £750
UK median daily rate £561 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +2.05% -5.01% +5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.36
25th Percentile £64.25 - £61.35
Median hourly rate £73.00 - £68.00
75th Percentile £84.69 - £71.43
90th Percentile £85.75 - £73.49
UK median hourly rate £73.00 - £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 8,848 5,342 5,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.37% 34.65% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,045 3,188 2,834
10th Percentile £280 £221 £210
25th Percentile £404 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £577 £600
90th Percentile £688 £666 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.20% -3.49% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 433 346
10th Percentile £13.66 £13.91 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £22.10
Median hourly rate £38.25 £29.27 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -48.96% +14.70%
75th Percentile £67.70 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.60 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.31% -42.00% +11.73%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -40 41 £525 +7.53% 33
North of England -53 40 £600 +8.99% 35
South West -21 22 £500 -14.89% 14
North West -35 22 £525 +12.00% 23
East of England -19 12 £460 - 14
Midlands -42 12 £800 +77.78% 13
Yorkshire -40 11 £631 +1.00% 8
East Midlands -17 8 £460 +2.22% 1
North East -34 7 £875 +45.83% 4
Scotland -28 6 £875 +94.44% 16
West Midlands -44 4 £800 +58.02% 12
Wales - 1 - - 1
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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.76%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.27%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.27%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.52%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.76%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.76%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.76%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.76%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.39%) Azure
2 11 (8.33%) AWS
3 8 (6.06%) GCP
4 7 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.55%) GitHub
5 6 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.27%) dbt
6 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.27%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.52%) Serverless
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) NAS
1 2 (1.52%) SAN
2 1 (0.76%) BGP
2 1 (0.76%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.76%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.76%) IPsec
2 1 (0.76%) Junos
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) NX-OS
2 1 (0.76%) OSPF
2 1 (0.76%) SSL
2 1 (0.76%) VLAN
2 1 (0.76%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.27%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.52%) Flink
3 2 (1.52%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.76%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Newman
1 3 (2.27%) Postman
2 2 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (36.36%) Finance
2 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.67%) Banking
4 18 (13.64%) Retail
5 13 (9.85%) Front Office
5 13 (9.85%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.79%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.79%) General Ledger
8 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.27%) Legal
10 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.52%) iGaming
12 1 (0.76%) Aviation
12 1 (0.76%) Billing
12 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (23.48%) Lead
2 27 (20.45%) Senior
3 17 (12.88%) Developer
4 16 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 15 (11.36%) Architect
5 15 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.61%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (9.85%) React Developer
7 13 (9.85%) Senior React Developer
7 13 (9.85%) Senior UI Developer
7 13 (9.85%) UI Developer
8 9 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Data Migration Lead
9 7 (5.30%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) SAP Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.79%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) Kafka
1 13 (9.85%) React
1 13 (9.85%) Redux
2 9 (6.82%) REST
3 8 (6.06%) .NET
4 7 (5.30%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (5.30%) Spring
5 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
7 3 (2.27%) PySpark
7 3 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.27%) SAML
7 3 (2.27%) SAP Basis
7 3 (2.27%) SOAP
7 3 (2.27%) XML
7 3 (2.27%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Equities
1 13 (9.85%) Fixed Income
1 13 (9.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (7.58%) AI Agents
3 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.03%) Digital Currency
5 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.03%) Life Science
6 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.52%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.76%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.76%) CMDB
8 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.79%) Windows
2 3 (2.27%) Linux
3 2 (1.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) SUSE
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.94%) Migration
2 21 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (14.39%) Agile
4 17 (12.88%) CI/CD
4 17 (12.88%) Data Migration
5 13 (9.85%) Electronic Trading
5 13 (9.85%) ERP
5 13 (9.85%) Event-Driven
5 13 (9.85%) Low Latency
5 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (9.09%) Microservices
6 12 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 12 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 12 (9.09%) Validation
7 11 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (6.82%) AI
8 9 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (6.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) Java
2 21 (15.91%) C#
3 15 (11.36%) Python
4 14 (10.61%) SQL
5 13 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.85%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.27%) ABAP
7 2 (1.52%) Perl
8 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (19.70%) SC Cleared
1 26 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.30%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (3.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.27%) PMP
6 2 (1.52%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CCA
7 1 (0.76%) CCIE
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.76%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.76%) RHCA
7 1 (0.76%) RHCE
7 1 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.06%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.03%) NIST
3 4 (3.03%) P3O
3 4 (3.03%) PMO
4 2 (1.52%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Ansible
2 2 (1.52%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.76%) Packer
3 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) SAP
2 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.55%) Databricks
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle
4 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.27%) Ariba
6 2 (1.52%) F5
6 2 (1.52%) OpenText
6 2 (1.52%) Progress
6 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.52%) Veritas
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco
7 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.76%) Foundry
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) Juniper
7 1 (0.76%) New Relic
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk