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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 196 158
Rank change year-on-year -53 -38 -52
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 409 801 1,586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.38% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.14% 4.14% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 649 1,310
10th Percentile £413 £412 £415
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +6.67%
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 13,028 19,354 28,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.29% 33.27% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,390 13,300 20,260
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 636 720
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.19 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £21.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +30.29% +4.17% -12.50%

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 12 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 12 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 -67 321 £606 +1.04% 307
London -31 233 £650 +4.00% 160
Work from Home -12 212 £575 +0.44% 223
UK excluding London -37 92 £495 -1.00% 163
North of England +5 42 £495 -1.00% 66
North West +15 33 £495 +5.91% 41
East of England +11 10 £875 +40.00% 4
South West +4 10 £444 -6.58% 13
South East +1 9 £500 -1.48% 23
Yorkshire +12 8 £450 -22.58% 16
Midlands -8 7 £585 +23.16% 33
Scotland +21 6 £450 -5.26% 14
East Midlands +20 5 £625 +31.58% 13
Northern Ireland +10 5 - - 7
Wales +7 3 £425 - 3
West Midlands -18 2 £523 +10.00% 20
North East +12 1 £625 +31.58% 9

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 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.73%) CMS
2 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Kentico
3 2 (0.49%) nginx
3 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.24%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (4.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.47%) Endur
3 3 (0.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.73%) Shopify
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.49%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.24%) Magento
5 1 (0.24%) Maximo
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.24%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.47%) AWS
2 84 (20.54%) Azure
3 20 (4.89%) GCP
3 20 (4.89%) Serverless
4 17 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.93%) Amazon S3
6 12 (2.93%) SaaS
7 9 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (1.71%) GitHub
8 7 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon MSK
10 5 (1.22%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.93%) Firewall
2 7 (1.71%) Network Security
3 5 (1.22%) VPN
4 4 (0.98%) MQTT
5 3 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.49%) AMQP
6 2 (0.49%) BGP
6 2 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.49%) IPsec
6 2 (0.49%) OSPF
6 2 (0.49%) SMS
6 2 (0.49%) SSL
6 2 (0.49%) Wireless
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) SNMP
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.89%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.93%) Big Data
5 12 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.47%) Power BI
9 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.73%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (6.60%) Git
2 15 (3.67%) Cucumber
3 12 (2.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.93%) NUnit
4 11 (2.69%) Moq
4 11 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 10 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.71%) Android Studio
6 7 (1.71%) Mocha
7 6 (1.47%) GitLab
8 5 (1.22%) Selenium
8 5 (1.22%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.98%) JIRA
10 3 (0.73%) Gradle
10 3 (0.73%) JMeter
10 3 (0.73%) JUnit
10 3 (0.73%) Maven
10 3 (0.73%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.73%) TestNG
10 3 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 105 (25.67%) Finance
2 48 (11.74%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.05%) Front Office
4 36 (8.80%) Banking
5 33 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.67%) Retail
8 13 (3.18%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.18%) Law
9 11 (2.69%) Marketing
10 7 (1.71%) Back Office
10 7 (1.71%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.98%) Legal
12 4 (0.98%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.73%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (35.94%) Developer
2 42 (10.27%) Senior
3 40 (9.78%) Architect
4 36 (8.80%) C# Developer
5 30 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.60%) Consultant
7 24 (5.87%) Lead
8 23 (5.62%) Analyst
8 23 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 17 (4.16%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.91%) Angular Developer
12 16 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (3.91%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.67%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.18%) Project Manager
15 13 (3.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.49%) React
2 42 (10.27%) .NET
3 34 (8.31%) Node.js
4 27 (6.60%) .NET Core
4 27 (6.60%) RESTful
5 24 (5.87%) AngularJS
5 24 (5.87%) Kafka
6 19 (4.65%) CSS
6 19 (4.65%) HTML
6 19 (4.65%) REST
7 15 (3.67%) Middleware
8 14 (3.42%) Next.js
9 13 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (2.93%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (2.93%) Spring
11 11 (2.69%) SignalR
12 10 (2.44%) GraphQL
12 10 (2.44%) HTML5
13 9 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.89%) Hedge funds
2 17 (4.16%) Fixed Income
3 12 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.47%) Equities
6 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.73%) Derivative
8 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.49%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.49%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.96%) Android
2 7 (1.71%) Linux
3 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.49%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (18.83%) Agile
2 63 (15.40%) DevOps
3 52 (12.71%) CI/CD
3 52 (12.71%) Software Engineering
4 45 (11.00%) Full Stack Development
5 41 (10.02%) Microservices
6 37 (9.05%) Migration
7 36 (8.80%) Test Automation
8 28 (6.85%) Data Modelling
9 26 (6.36%) Fintech
10 23 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (5.13%) Analytics
11 21 (5.13%) Project Management
12 20 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (4.65%) Machine Learning
14 17 (4.16%) Containerisation
15 16 (3.91%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (3.67%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (3.67%) Data Migration
16 15 (3.67%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.63%) C#
2 56 (13.69%) SQL
3 53 (12.96%) Java
3 53 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 50 (12.22%) Python
5 44 (10.76%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.69%) Go
7 10 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.96%) Ruby
9 7 (1.71%) PHP
9 7 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.71%) Scala
10 4 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.49%) Bash
11 2 (0.49%) C
11 2 (0.49%) Clojure
11 2 (0.49%) Haskell
11 2 (0.49%) R
11 2 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.91%) Degree
4 11 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CCNP
8 2 (0.49%) CISM
8 2 (0.49%) CISSP
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.49%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) PgMP
9 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) RHCE
9 1 (0.24%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.93%) QA
2 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.73%) GAAP
4 3 (0.73%) GRC
4 3 (0.73%) MiFID
4 3 (0.73%) NIST
5 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.49%) GPG13
5 2 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
6 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (11.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.07%) Terraform
3 16 (3.91%) Ansible
4 6 (1.47%) Grafana
4 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) Puppet
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.33%) SAP
2 23 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.91%) Oracle
4 11 (2.69%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.69%) TIBCO
5 8 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.47%) Databricks
6 6 (1.47%) Google
6 6 (1.47%) OpenLink
7 5 (1.22%) VMware
8 4 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.73%) Yardi
10 2 (0.49%) Adobe
10 2 (0.49%) Apple
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco
10 2 (0.49%) Dell
10 2 (0.49%) F5
10 2 (0.49%) IBM
10 2 (0.49%) Intel
10 2 (0.49%) Splunk