Greenfield Project Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 245 185
Rank change year-on-year -36 -60 -30
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 263 433 837
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.99% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.65% 3.27% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 335 675
10th Percentile £400 £413 £412
25th Percentile £433 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £592
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £728 £731 £719
90th Percentile £850 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £488
% change year-on-year -4.52% +2.05% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -56.25% +627.27%
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Greenfield Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project.

Daily rate trend for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Greenfield Project.

Hourly rate trend for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -26 213 £585 -4.49% 317
London -22 154 £625 -7.41% 155
Work from Home -34 114 £550 -2.22% 249
UK excluding London +16 64 £475 -4.52% 164
North of England +7 27 £475 -4.04% 85
North West -11 15 £425 -14.14% 64
Midlands +26 11 £650 +21.50% 36
South East +43 9 £505 +1.00% 15
West Midlands +21 8 £650 +23.81% 21
Yorkshire +11 6 £475 +5.56% 12
Scotland +8 6 £388 -11.93% 5
North East +5 6 £600 -4.00% 9
South West +40 5 £585 +31.83% 11
East of England +25 3 £479 -44.49% 10
Northern Ireland -11 3 £410 - 2
East Midlands +6 2 £450 -28.00% 15
Wales +4 1 £400 -1.54% 2

Greenfield Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.52%) Apache
2 4 (1.52%) CMS
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) 1Password
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Notion
Business Applications
1 25 (9.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.90%) Endur
3 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.52%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.52%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.52%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.52%) SAP MM
4 3 (1.14%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.14%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.14%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.76%) Primavera
5 2 (0.76%) SAP CAR
5 2 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Odoo
6 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.48%) AWS
2 39 (14.83%) Azure
3 23 (8.75%) Serverless
4 20 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.94%) GitHub
6 13 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.56%) GCP
8 11 (4.18%) SaaS
9 9 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.42%) Figma
10 8 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.66%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.28%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
2 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (3.04%) Power BI
2 7 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.90%) Big Data
4 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.52%) Tableau
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.14%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.76%) HBase
7 2 (0.76%) Impala
Development Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.28%) Git
3 4 (1.52%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.52%) JIRA
3 4 (1.52%) Postman
4 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.14%) GitLab
4 3 (1.14%) Selenium
4 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.76%) JMeter
5 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.38%) Ant
6 1 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) Grunt
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 79 (30.04%) Finance
2 58 (22.05%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.69%) Banking
4 33 (12.55%) Front Office
5 21 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.46%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.56%) Retail
8 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.04%) Law
9 8 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.28%) Marketing
11 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.52%) Automotive
12 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.14%) Back Office
13 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (30.80%) Developer
2 40 (15.21%) Senior
3 30 (11.41%) Lead
4 25 (9.51%) Software Engineer
5 23 (8.75%) Analyst
5 23 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.37%) Python Developer
7 19 (7.22%) Architect
7 19 (7.22%) Consultant
8 13 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.56%) Senior Python Developer
10 11 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.80%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (3.42%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.42%) React Developer
13 8 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.21%) React
2 24 (9.13%) Node.js
3 19 (7.22%) .NET
4 11 (4.18%) HTML
5 8 (3.04%) CSS
5 8 (3.04%) Redux
6 7 (2.66%) .NET Core
6 7 (2.66%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.66%) JSON
7 6 (2.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (2.28%) Kafka
7 6 (2.28%) Play Framework
7 6 (2.28%) RESTful
8 5 (1.90%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.90%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.90%) Next.js
8 5 (1.90%) OpenFin
8 5 (1.90%) XML
9 4 (1.52%) Jest
9 4 (1.52%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.66%) Algorithms
2 7 (2.66%) Fixed Income
3 4 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.76%) Educational Technology
5 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.76%) FMCG
5 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
5 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.14%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (18.25%) Agile
2 40 (15.21%) CI/CD
3 33 (12.55%) DevOps
4 32 (12.17%) Software Engineering
5 22 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (7.22%) Migration
8 16 (6.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (6.08%) Test Automation
9 15 (5.70%) Analytics
9 15 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.70%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (5.32%) OO
11 12 (4.56%) Project Delivery
12 11 (4.18%) Front End Development
12 11 (4.18%) Project Management
12 11 (4.18%) User Experience
13 10 (3.80%) Machine Learning
13 10 (3.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.05%) Python
2 42 (15.97%) TypeScript
3 40 (15.21%) SQL
4 36 (13.69%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.13%) Java
6 20 (7.60%) C#
7 8 (3.04%) Scala
8 4 (1.52%) Go
9 3 (1.14%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.14%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.14%) Swift
9 3 (1.14%) VBA
10 2 (0.76%) Bash
10 2 (0.76%) C++
10 2 (0.76%) Clojure
10 2 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.18%) Degree
4 5 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.76%) PMP
6 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CFA
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.80%) QA
2 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) Basel II
3 2 (0.76%) Basel III
3 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) GRC
4 1 (0.38%) IFRS
4 1 (0.38%) MiFID
4 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (4.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) HDFS
3 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (9.89%) Terraform
2 18 (6.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.42%) Ansible
4 6 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (15.59%) SAP
2 27 (10.27%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.56%) Databricks
3 12 (4.56%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.42%) Oracle
5 6 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (1.90%) Ariba
7 3 (1.14%) Adobe
7 3 (1.14%) Netskope
7 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.76%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.76%) Datto
8 2 (0.76%) Freshdesk
8 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.76%) Nintex
8 2 (0.76%) Okta
8 2 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Tenable
9 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds