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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 253 201
Rank change year-on-year -40 -52 -37
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 250 401 756
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.93% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.53% 3.09% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 309 604
10th Percentile £400 £413 £411
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £728
90th Percentile £850 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile £75.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -39.13% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
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 9,884 12,958 18,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.17% 30.20% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,239 8,332 12,877
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 925 610
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.80 £15.22 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.91 £34.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +55.50% -18.46%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.15 £70.82 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £21.67
% change year-on-year -2.58% +48.20% +1.98%

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 May 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 May 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 -12 204 £594 -1.00% 1,725
London -11 151 £625 -3.81% 305
Work from Home -30 103 £550 -4.35% 978
UK excluding London +14 57 £475 -4.04% 1,670
North of England -11 24 £500 +1.01% 398
North West -13 15 £425 -14.14% 217
Midlands +20 10 £450 -23.08% 302
South East +57 8 £505 +1.00% 503
North East +5 6 £600 -4.00% 44
South West +40 5 £585 +17.00% 174
East Midlands +10 5 £450 -28.00% 120
West Midlands +18 4 £400 -23.44% 162
Scotland +2 4 £450 -0.28% 65
East of England +28 3 £479 -45.29% 229
Yorkshire +14 3 £475 +5.56% 138
Northern Ireland -13 3 £410 - 23
Wales +3 1 £400 -43.86% 40

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 7 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.20%) CMS
3 2 (0.80%) Apache
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.20%) Sketch
3 1 (0.40%) Notion
Business Applications
1 26 (10.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.00%) SAP PS
4 4 (1.60%) Endur
4 4 (1.60%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.60%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.80%) Primavera
6 1 (0.40%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.40%) Odoo
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.40%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.40%) Shopify
6 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (25.60%) AWS
2 39 (15.60%) Azure
3 24 (9.60%) Serverless
4 21 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.60%) GCP
7 13 (5.20%) GitHub
8 12 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.00%) Figma
10 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.80%) SaaS
13 6 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.40%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.40%) Power BI
3 7 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.40%) Tableau
5 5 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.00%) Big Data
5 5 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.20%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.80%) HBase
8 2 (0.80%) Impala
8 2 (0.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Git
2 5 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.60%) Postman
4 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.80%) JMeter
5 2 (0.80%) Selenium
5 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.40%) Ant
6 1 (0.40%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Grunt
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) ScalaTest
6 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 85 (34.00%) Finance
2 51 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 38 (15.20%) Banking
4 33 (13.20%) Front Office
5 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.00%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.00%) Retail
8 7 (2.80%) Back Office
8 7 (2.80%) Law
8 7 (2.80%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.40%) Marketing
10 5 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.00%) Automotive
11 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) German Language
13 2 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (28.40%) Developer
2 41 (16.40%) Senior
3 30 (12.00%) Lead
4 26 (10.40%) Analyst
4 26 (10.40%) Software Engineer
5 22 (8.80%) Python Developer
6 21 (8.40%) Architect
6 21 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 18 (7.20%) Consultant
8 15 (6.00%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) SAP Architect
12 9 (3.60%) Senior Python Developer
13 8 (3.20%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.20%) React Developer
13 8 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.20%) React
2 23 (9.20%) Node.js
3 20 (8.00%) .NET
4 9 (3.60%) Kafka
5 8 (3.20%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.20%) FastAPI
5 8 (3.20%) Redux
6 7 (2.80%) CSS
6 7 (2.80%) HTML
6 7 (2.80%) JSON
7 6 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (2.40%) Django
7 6 (2.40%) Play Framework
8 5 (2.00%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.00%) Next.js
8 5 (2.00%) OpenFin
8 5 (2.00%) RESTful
8 5 (2.00%) XML
9 4 (1.60%) Jest
9 4 (1.60%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.20%) Fixed Income
2 8 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.20%) FMCG
6 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) CMDB
8 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.40%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.40%) NHS
8 1 (0.40%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.40%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (16.80%) Agile
2 37 (14.80%) CI/CD
3 36 (14.40%) DevOps
4 33 (13.20%) Software Engineering
5 21 (8.40%) Test Automation
6 20 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (7.60%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (6.00%) Migration
11 14 (5.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (5.20%) Analytics
12 13 (5.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (4.80%) LLM
13 12 (4.80%) Project Management
13 12 (4.80%) Risk Management
14 11 (4.40%) Computer Science
14 11 (4.40%) Machine Learning
14 11 (4.40%) Scrum
14 11 (4.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.40%) Python
2 43 (17.20%) SQL
3 36 (14.40%) TypeScript
4 35 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.40%) C#
5 21 (8.40%) Java
6 10 (4.00%) Scala
7 4 (1.60%) Go
7 4 (1.60%) VBA
8 3 (1.20%) Bash
8 3 (1.20%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.20%) Swift
9 2 (0.80%) Clojure
9 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.60%) Degree
2 14 (5.60%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CFA
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.60%) QA
2 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.80%) Basel II
3 2 (0.80%) Basel III
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.40%) IFRS
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) IAG
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.20%) Terraform
2 16 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.00%) Ansible
4 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (12.80%) SAP
2 23 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.80%) Databricks
4 11 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.20%) Oracle
6 5 (2.00%) Ariba
7 3 (1.20%) Genesys
7 3 (1.20%) Google
7 3 (1.20%) IBM
7 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.20%) Workday
8 2 (0.80%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.80%) Nintex
8 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Tenable
9 1 (0.40%) Concur
9 1 (0.40%) Conga
9 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.40%) Netskope