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 have cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 184 156
Rank change year-on-year -57 -28 -53
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 426 834 1,630
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.40% 1.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 4.22% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 671 1,340
10th Percentile £413 £413 £415
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £494 £484
% change year-on-year +0.25% +2.07% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.50 -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £10.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +422.73% -67.65%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £11.50
90th Percentile - £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -67.65%

All Generic Skills
UK

Greenfield Project is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,182 19,760 29,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.36% 33.28% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,463 13,583 20,472
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £792 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 639 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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 -59 333 £625 +4.17% 302
London -33 237 £675 +8.00% 155
Work from Home -15 214 £575 +4.55% 237
UK excluding London -43 101 £495 +0.25% 159
North of England +14 46 £495 +1.54% 55
North West +12 35 £495 +7.03% 37
East of England +21 11 £863 +38.00% 7
South West +12 10 £444 -6.58% 16
Yorkshire +12 10 £450 -18.18% 13
South East +6 9 £500 -1.48% 29
Midlands -9 9 £535 +12.63% 33
Scotland +15 7 £440 -7.37% 11
East Midlands +16 6 £625 +31.58% 11
Northern Ireland +15 6 - - 5
Wales +8 3 £425 - 3
West Midlands -14 3 £525 +10.53% 22
North East +15 1 £625 +29.87% 6

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 4 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.70%) CMS
2 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.47%) Apache
3 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.47%) Kentico
3 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.41%) Endur
3 4 (0.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.70%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.70%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.47%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.23%) Magento
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 97 (22.77%) AWS
2 86 (20.19%) Azure
3 20 (4.69%) GCP
4 18 (4.23%) Serverless
5 16 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 12 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (2.82%) SaaS
7 11 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.88%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.41%) GitHub
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (1.17%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.58%) Firewall
2 7 (1.64%) Network Security
3 5 (1.17%) VPN
4 4 (0.94%) MQTT
5 3 (0.70%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.47%) IPsec
6 2 (0.47%) OSPF
6 2 (0.47%) SMS
6 2 (0.47%) SSL
6 2 (0.47%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) FTP
7 1 (0.23%) SNMP
7 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (3.05%) Big Data
6 12 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.11%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.41%) Power BI
12 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.70%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (6.10%) Git
2 15 (3.52%) Cucumber
3 12 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.82%) Moq
3 12 (2.82%) NUnit
3 12 (2.82%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.64%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.41%) GitLab
6 6 (1.41%) Mocha
7 4 (0.94%) JIRA
7 4 (0.94%) Selenium
7 4 (0.94%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.70%) Gradle
8 3 (0.70%) JMeter
8 3 (0.70%) JUnit
8 3 (0.70%) Maven
8 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.70%) TestNG
8 3 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 103 (24.18%) Finance
2 50 (11.74%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.92%) Front Office
4 36 (8.45%) Banking
5 32 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.76%) Retail
8 13 (3.05%) Law
9 12 (2.82%) Marketing
10 10 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.64%) Back Office
12 7 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.41%) Legal
13 6 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.70%) Billing
15 3 (0.70%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 153 (35.92%) Developer
2 43 (10.09%) Senior
3 40 (9.39%) Architect
4 35 (8.22%) C# Developer
5 29 (6.81%) Consultant
5 29 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.87%) Analyst
6 25 (5.87%) Lead
7 24 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.16%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
10 18 (4.23%) Java Developer
11 17 (3.99%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.76%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.76%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.05%) Angular Developer
14 13 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.05%) React Developer
14 13 (3.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.50%) React
2 43 (10.09%) .NET
3 34 (7.98%) Node.js
4 27 (6.34%) .NET Core
4 27 (6.34%) RESTful
5 22 (5.16%) Kafka
6 21 (4.93%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.69%) CSS
7 20 (4.69%) HTML
8 19 (4.46%) REST
9 16 (3.76%) Middleware
10 14 (3.29%) Next.js
10 14 (3.29%) Spring
11 13 (3.05%) ASP.NET
11 13 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
11 13 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (2.82%) SignalR
13 11 (2.58%) HTML5
14 10 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.93%) Hedge funds
2 18 (4.23%) Fixed Income
3 13 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.88%) Equities
6 6 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.70%) Derivative
8 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.47%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.88%) Android
1 8 (1.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.54%) Agile
2 65 (15.26%) DevOps
3 54 (12.68%) CI/CD
4 52 (12.21%) Software Engineering
5 46 (10.80%) Full Stack Development
6 39 (9.15%) Microservices
7 38 (8.92%) Migration
8 34 (7.98%) Test Automation
9 29 (6.81%) Data Modelling
10 26 (6.10%) Fintech
11 24 (5.63%) Project Management
11 24 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (4.93%) Analytics
13 20 (4.69%) Machine Learning
14 19 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (3.99%) Containerisation
15 17 (3.99%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (3.76%) Data Migration
16 16 (3.76%) Electronic Trading
17 15 (3.52%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.73%) C#
2 58 (13.62%) SQL
3 54 (12.68%) Java
3 54 (12.68%) JavaScript
4 51 (11.97%) Python
5 46 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.58%) Go
7 9 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.11%) Ruby
8 8 (1.88%) Scala
9 7 (1.64%) PHP
10 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.70%) C
13 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Clojure
13 2 (0.47%) Haskell
13 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.99%) Degree
4 11 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.70%) CCNP
8 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.47%) CISM
8 2 (0.47%) CISSP
8 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.47%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) RHCE
9 1 (0.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.58%) QA
2 6 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.70%) GAAP
3 3 (0.70%) GRC
3 3 (0.70%) MiFID
3 3 (0.70%) NIST
4 2 (0.47%) GPG13
4 2 (0.47%) NCSC
4 2 (0.47%) PMO
5 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 46 (10.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.51%) Terraform
3 16 (3.76%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) Grafana
4 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) Puppet
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (7.98%) SAP
2 24 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.76%) Oracle
4 12 (2.82%) TIBCO
5 11 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.64%) Databricks
8 6 (1.41%) Google
8 6 (1.41%) OpenLink
9 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.17%) VMware
10 3 (0.70%) Cisco
10 3 (0.70%) Yardi
11 2 (0.47%) Adobe
11 2 (0.47%) Apple
11 2 (0.47%) Dell
11 2 (0.47%) F5
11 2 (0.47%) Intel
11 2 (0.47%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.47%) Splunk