Greenfield Project Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 245 234
Rank change year-on-year -148 -11 -32
Permanent jobs citing Greenfield Project 131 387 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 1.08% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 3.14% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 107 239 415
10th Percentile - £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -5.17%
75th Percentile £68,800 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Greenfield Project falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,683 12,325 11,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.11% 34.26% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,346 5,311 8,421
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Greenfield Project relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK excluding London

Greenfield Project
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Greenfield Project within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -46 52 £42,500 -29.17% 71
North of England -22 40 £62,500 +13.64% 45
North West +1 29 £62,500 +13.64% 26
South West -25 15 £71,250 +5.56% 21
Midlands -46 13 £45,000 -21.74% 32
East of England +7 8 £100,000 +122.22% 28
West Midlands -15 8 £45,000 -16.18% 17
North East +12 7 £67,500 +28.88% 7
East Midlands -44 5 £45,000 -23.40% 15
Yorkshire -24 4 £34,750 -37.39% 12
Scotland -12 2 £65,050 +18.27% 5
Wales +2 1 £61,496 +44.70% 13
Greenfield Project
UK

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.19%) Azure
2 31 (23.66%) Power Platform
3 22 (16.79%) AWS
4 13 (9.92%) SaaS
5 11 (8.40%) PaaS
6 9 (6.87%) IaaS
7 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.82%) GitHub
9 3 (2.29%) GCP
10 2 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.53%) Dagster
10 2 (1.53%) Datadog
10 2 (1.53%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.53%) Prefect
11 1 (0.76%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.29%) Internet
2 2 (1.53%) LTE
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) MySQL
2 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.53%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.76%) git-flow
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 46 (35.11%) Finance
2 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.29%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.53%) Legal
5 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.76%) Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Electronics
6 1 (0.76%) Law
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (56.49%) Developer
2 29 (22.14%) Software Developer
3 20 (15.27%) Automation Developer
4 16 (12.21%) Senior
5 14 (10.69%) Power Platform Developer
6 12 (9.16%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Analyst
7 11 (8.40%) Lead
8 10 (7.63%) Architect
8 10 (7.63%) Automation Analyst
8 10 (7.63%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Azure Architect
12 6 (4.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.32%) .NET
2 16 (12.21%) React
3 14 (10.69%) .NET Core
4 9 (6.87%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.58%) CSS
5 6 (4.58%) HTML
5 6 (4.58%) RESTful
6 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.82%) Blazor
7 4 (3.05%) Node.js
7 4 (3.05%) OAuth
7 4 (3.05%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.05%) React Native
8 3 (2.29%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.29%) Laravel
8 3 (2.29%) OpenID
8 3 (2.29%) SAML
9 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.58%) IoT
2 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.29%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.76%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Windows
1 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.53%) Android
2 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.76%) Fedora
3 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.88%) Agile
2 37 (28.24%) AI
3 33 (25.19%) Roadmaps
4 31 (23.66%) User Acceptance Testing
5 30 (22.90%) Intelligent Automation
6 22 (16.79%) Software Engineering
7 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (14.50%) Logistics
9 16 (12.21%) Microservices
10 14 (10.69%) E-Commerce
11 13 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.16%) CI/CD
13 9 (6.87%) ArchiMate
13 9 (6.87%) Clean Code
13 9 (6.87%) DevOps
13 9 (6.87%) Front End Development
13 9 (6.87%) UML
14 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 7 (5.34%) Digital Innovation
16 6 (4.58%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 54 (41.22%) SQL
2 24 (18.32%) C#
3 16 (12.21%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.69%) TypeScript
5 10 (7.63%) Python
6 6 (4.58%) PHP
7 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.05%) Java
9 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) Bash
10 1 (0.76%) Go
10 1 (0.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (6.11%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.53%) GDPR
2 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.05%) Terraform
2 3 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 31 (23.66%) Blue Prism
3 9 (6.87%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (1.53%) Databricks
4 2 (1.53%) SAP
4 2 (1.53%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds