Greenfield Project Contract Job Trends

Greenfield Project
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 253 229
Rank change year-on-year -108 -24 -50
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 282 300 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.02% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 3.02% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 213 370
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £464 £469 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £719
90th Percentile £825 £850 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +6.44% +1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £53.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +51.43% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +92.31% -25.71% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,347 9,936 13,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.24% 33.67% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,016 6,259 8,638
10th Percentile £290 £281 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 676 353 868
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £15.63
Median hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.07% +24.53%
75th Percentile £67.31 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.72 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +25.06% +22.15% +18.18%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Greenfield Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the UK

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Greenfield Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 March 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
England -108 236 £565 -5.36% 160
London -61 180 £575 -4.17% 70
Work from Home -76 73 £500 -13.04% 88
UK excluding London -100 52 £538 +6.44% 100
North of England -87 15 £550 +12.53% 30
South East -47 14 £683 +21.88% 33
North West -44 11 £550 +25.71% 16
Midlands -56 9 £520 -20.00% 19
Scotland +10 6 £388 -7.46% 1
West Midlands -63 6 £516 -20.58% 10
South West -29 5 £525 -10.26% 8
Yorkshire -60 4 £600 +26.32% 8
East Midlands -29 3 £675 +25.58% 9
East of England -28 2 £474 +0.80% 10
Wales -10 1 £425 +6.25% 2

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.13%) CMS
2 5 (1.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) MicroStation
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.19%) Endur
3 3 (1.06%) SAP PP
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.35%) Maximo
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.35%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.35%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.35%) SmartPlant
5 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (23.76%) Azure
2 58 (20.57%) AWS
3 14 (4.96%) GCP
4 13 (4.61%) SaaS
5 11 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.19%) Serverless
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.84%) GitHub
9 7 (2.48%) dbt
9 7 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.77%) PaaS
11 5 (1.77%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 4 (1.42%) DNS
2 4 (1.42%) VPN
2 4 (1.42%) VSAN
3 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) BGP
4 2 (0.71%) OSPF
4 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.71%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) IPv6
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) MPLS
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) SNMP
5 1 (0.35%) VoIP
5 1 (0.35%) Wireless
5 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.55%) Power BI
3 7 (2.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.48%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.13%) Star Schema
5 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.06%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.06%) Metadata
7 3 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.71%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.71%) Sisense
8 2 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (4.96%) JIRA
2 7 (2.48%) GitLab
3 6 (2.13%) Git
3 6 (2.13%) Postman
4 5 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.42%) JUnit
6 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.06%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.06%) ERwin
6 3 (1.06%) Mockito
6 3 (1.06%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.06%) Selenium
7 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.71%) Gradle
8 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) git-flow
8 1 (0.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (32.27%) Finance
2 75 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.74%) Banking
4 17 (6.03%) Front Office
4 17 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.55%) Marketing
6 9 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.84%) Publishing
8 7 (2.48%) Retail
9 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.77%) Cyber-Physical System
10 5 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.42%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (25.18%) Developer
2 70 (24.82%) Senior
3 31 (10.99%) Architect
4 29 (10.28%) Analyst
5 26 (9.22%) Senior Developer
6 23 (8.16%) Lead
7 19 (6.74%) Consultant
8 18 (6.38%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.67%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 15 (5.32%) C# Developer
11 14 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.90%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (3.90%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 10 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.19%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.19%) SAP Consultant
15 9 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.45%) .NET
2 19 (6.74%) React
3 15 (5.32%) Next.js
3 15 (5.32%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.96%) Spring
5 13 (4.61%) RESTful
6 11 (3.90%) REST
7 10 (3.55%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.55%) Kafka
7 10 (3.55%) PySpark
8 9 (3.19%) CSS
8 9 (3.19%) HTML
8 9 (3.19%) Node.js
9 8 (2.84%) .NET Framework
9 8 (2.84%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.84%) OAuth
10 6 (2.13%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.42%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.42%) React Native
12 3 (1.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.22%) Product Ownership
2 22 (7.80%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.77%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.42%) CMDB
6 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.42%) Equities
6 4 (1.42%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.06%) CCTV
7 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.06%) Life Science
7 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.67%) Linux
2 11 (3.90%) Unix
3 5 (1.77%) Android
3 5 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.34%) Agile
2 45 (15.96%) CI/CD
3 42 (14.89%) DevOps
4 32 (11.35%) AI
4 32 (11.35%) Analytics
4 32 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (10.99%) Software Engineering
6 30 (10.64%) Migration
7 25 (8.87%) Roadmaps
8 23 (8.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (8.16%) Test Automation
9 21 (7.45%) Data Modelling
10 20 (7.09%) Fintech
10 20 (7.09%) Mentoring
11 19 (6.74%) Scrum
11 19 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (6.38%) Containerisation
12 18 (6.38%) Data Migration
12 18 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.02%) Python
2 34 (12.06%) Java
3 30 (10.64%) SQL
4 23 (8.16%) C#
4 23 (8.16%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.26%) C++
6 8 (2.84%) Go
6 8 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.48%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.42%) Bash
9 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.42%) Scala
10 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.35%) Degree
3 26 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CISSP
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CAPM
8 1 (0.35%) CCDA
8 1 (0.35%) CCDP
8 1 (0.35%) CCIE
8 1 (0.35%) CCIP
8 1 (0.35%) CCNA
8 1 (0.35%) CCNP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.90%) QA
3 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.77%) PMO
3 5 (1.77%) RMADS
4 4 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (8.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.74%) Terraform
3 6 (2.13%) Ansible
4 5 (1.77%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) CASB
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (9.57%) SAP
2 20 (7.09%) Databricks
3 18 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.90%) Oracle
6 6 (2.13%) Google
6 6 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.13%) VMware
7 5 (1.77%) Workday
8 4 (1.42%) Apple
9 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.71%) Ariba
10 2 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.71%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.71%) Cisco
10 2 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.71%) HP
10 2 (0.71%) Informatica
10 2 (0.71%) Okta
10 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto