Greenfield Project Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Greenfield Project
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 151 137
Rank change year-on-year -39 -14 -16
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 114 218 460
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.42% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 4.95% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 168 383
10th Percentile £398 £409 £411
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -
75th Percentile £763 £700 £725
90th Percentile £850 £816 £823
UK median daily rate £568 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -5.42% +1.35% -1.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Greenfield Project
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Greenfield Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Greenfield Project trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Greenfield Project.

Greenfield Project daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Greenfield Project
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Greenfield Project over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Greenfield Project daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Greenfield Project
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Greenfield Project.

Greenfield Project hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Greenfield Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.75%) Apache
1 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (8.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.63%) SAP Retail
3 2 (1.75%) SAP CAR
3 2 (1.75%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.75%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.88%) Odoo
4 1 (0.88%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.95%) AWS
2 20 (17.54%) Azure
3 8 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.02%) Figma
3 8 (7.02%) Serverless
4 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (6.14%) GitHub
4 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (5.26%) GCP
6 5 (4.39%) SaaS
7 4 (3.51%) IBM Blueworks
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.75%) Salsify
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Hive
2 2 (1.75%) Big Data
2 2 (1.75%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.75%) HBase
2 2 (1.75%) Impala
2 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) SQLite
3 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (35.96%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.16%) Banking
4 14 (12.28%) Front Office
5 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.89%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 3 (2.63%) Automotive
8 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 2 (1.75%) Law
9 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (30.70%) Developer
2 19 (16.67%) Lead
3 17 (14.91%) Software Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Senior
5 11 (9.65%) Consultant
6 10 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (4.39%) React Developer
10 4 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.68%) React
2 17 (14.91%) Node.js
3 6 (5.26%) Play Framework
4 5 (4.39%) Next.js
4 5 (4.39%) OpenFin
4 5 (4.39%) Redux
5 4 (3.51%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.63%) Kafka
7 2 (1.75%) .NET
7 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.75%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.75%) Django
7 2 (1.75%) JSON
7 2 (1.75%) RESTful
7 2 (1.75%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.88%) gRPC
8 1 (0.88%) Jest
8 1 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.39%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.75%) FMCG
3 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.75%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.88%) NHS
4 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.67%) Agile
1 19 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 17 (14.91%) CI/CD
3 15 (13.16%) DevOps
4 12 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (9.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (8.77%) Analytics
6 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (7.89%) Data Science
7 9 (7.89%) LLM
7 9 (7.89%) User Experience
8 8 (7.02%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (6.14%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (6.14%) Machine Learning
9 7 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.26%) B2B
10 6 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (5.26%) Data Engineering
10 6 (5.26%) ModelOps
10 6 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.68%) TypeScript
2 24 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 23 (20.18%) Python
4 17 (14.91%) SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Java
6 6 (5.26%) Scala
7 5 (4.39%) C#
8 3 (2.63%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.75%) C++
9 2 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.39%) Degree
2 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) CFA
3 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) Basel II
1 2 (1.75%) Basel III
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) HDFS
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Terraform
2 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) SAP
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
3 7 (6.14%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.39%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Ariba
7 1 (0.88%) Calypso
7 1 (0.88%) Conga
7 1 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.88%) Google
7 1 (0.88%) Murex
7 1 (0.88%) Netskope
7 1 (0.88%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.88%) Planview
7 1 (0.88%) Rapid7