Greenfield Project Job Trends

Greenfield Project
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Greenfield Project in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Greenfield Project over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 288 221
Rank change year-on-year -66 -67 -33
Permanent jobs citing Greenfield Project 423 416 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.02% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.62% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 352 325 1,169
10th Percentile £45,125 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.11% +11.20% -10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -1.79%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,399 15,879 33,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 38.81% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 9,065 22,695
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £38,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,650 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%

Greenfield Project
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Greenfield Project job vacancy trend in the UK

Greenfield Project
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Greenfield Project

Greenfield Project
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Greenfield Project over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Greenfield Project in the UK

Greenfield Project
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 April 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
England -35 410 £80,000 +14.29% 149
London +49 227 £90,000 - 68
UK excluding London -127 180 £60,000 - 92
Work from Home -40 127 £71,500 +10.00% 86
Midlands -15 54 £65,000 +28.39% 18
North of England -71 51 £62,500 +4.17% 29
East Midlands -27 34 £45,000 - 9
South East -88 29 £60,000 - 34
North West -44 27 £62,500 +4.17% 14
South West -39 25 £50,000 -33.33% 6
West Midlands -7 20 £82,500 +39.02% 9
East of England -43 18 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Yorkshire -49 13 £65,000 +5.26% 10
North East -25 11 £57,500 +43.75% 5
Wales -33 2 £66,498 +33.00% 3
Scotland -32 1 £92,500 +48.00%

Greenfield Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (2.60%) Confluence
2 4 (0.95%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
4 2 (0.47%) nginx
4 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 61 (14.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (7.80%) SAP IBP
2 33 (7.80%) SAP PP
3 10 (2.36%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.42%) SAP WM
5 5 (1.18%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.47%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.47%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-BP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 115 (27.19%) AWS
2 110 (26.00%) Azure
3 42 (9.93%) GCP
4 40 (9.46%) Serverless
5 23 (5.44%) GitHub
6 19 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.07%) Firebase
10 11 (2.60%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.60%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.60%) SaaS
11 10 (2.36%) Stripe
11 10 (2.36%) TestFlight
12 9 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.89%) Amazon Cognito
13 8 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.95%) LTE
3 3 (0.71%) LAN
3 3 (0.71%) WAN
4 2 (0.47%) AMQP
4 2 (0.47%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.38%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.02%) Power BI
5 16 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.60%) Tableau
8 10 (2.36%) DB2
8 10 (2.36%) MySQL
9 9 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.89%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.18%) Big Data
13 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.95%) GIS
14 4 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (4.02%) Jenkins
1 17 (4.02%) Selenium
2 15 (3.55%) JIRA
3 11 (2.60%) Git
4 10 (2.36%) Crashlytics
4 10 (2.36%) Cucumber
4 10 (2.36%) TeamCity
4 10 (2.36%) XCTest
5 9 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.95%) webpack
8 3 (0.71%) Storybook
8 3 (0.71%) Vite
9 2 (0.47%) JMeter
9 2 (0.47%) Mocha
9 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.47%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) GDB
10 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.24%) WinDbg
General
1 104 (24.59%) Finance
2 97 (22.93%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.64%) Law
4 38 (8.98%) Manufacturing
5 24 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.96%) Retail
7 13 (3.07%) Banking
7 13 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.84%) Marketing
9 11 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.36%) Publishing
11 9 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.89%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.65%) Legal
14 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.71%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.47%) Advertising
15 2 (0.47%) Games
15 2 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (31.91%) Developer
2 81 (19.15%) Senior
3 55 (13.00%) Consultant
4 49 (11.58%) SAP Consultant
5 44 (10.40%) Software Developer
6 41 (9.69%) Lead
6 41 (9.69%) Managing Consultant
7 39 (9.22%) Software Engineer
8 33 (7.80%) SAP PP Consultant
9 32 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (7.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 29 (6.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 28 (6.62%) Architect
12 27 (6.38%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.78%) Analyst
14 14 (3.31%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.07%) Data Engineer
16 12 (2.84%) JavaScript Developer
16 12 (2.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.60%) React
2 52 (12.29%) .NET
3 40 (9.46%) SAP Fiori
4 36 (8.51%) CSS
5 33 (7.80%) Node.js
6 31 (7.33%) RESTful
7 28 (6.62%) HTML
8 27 (6.38%) Django
9 15 (3.55%) .NET Core
10 13 (3.07%) Next.js
11 12 (2.84%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.84%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.60%) SwiftUI
13 10 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (2.36%) Jest
13 10 (2.36%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (2.36%) UIKit
13 10 (2.36%) Vue
14 9 (2.13%) Gherkin
15 8 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.69%) Life Science
2 38 (8.98%) Data Structures
3 26 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 23 (5.44%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.60%) FMCG
9 10 (2.36%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.65%) IoT
11 7 (1.65%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.42%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.31%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.89%) Linux
3 6 (1.42%) Windows
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (20.09%) Software Engineering
3 84 (19.86%) Analytics
4 77 (18.20%) Agile
5 71 (16.78%) Mentoring
6 57 (13.48%) CI/CD
6 57 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (13.48%) Microservices
7 53 (12.53%) Computer Science
8 43 (10.17%) Business Development
9 40 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (9.22%) AI
11 37 (8.75%) Data Modelling
12 35 (8.27%) Front End Development
12 35 (8.27%) Test Automation
13 34 (8.04%) Clean Code
13 34 (8.04%) Production Planning
14 33 (7.80%) User Experience
15 31 (7.33%) Decision-Making
16 29 (6.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (20.33%) Python
2 61 (14.42%) JavaScript
3 59 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 57 (13.48%) C#
5 48 (11.35%) SQL
6 30 (7.09%) Java
7 16 (3.78%) PHP
8 11 (2.60%) Swift
9 10 (2.36%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.89%) C++
11 5 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.95%) ABAP
13 3 (0.71%) Dart
13 3 (0.71%) RPG
13 3 (0.71%) Scala
14 2 (0.47%) Bash
15 1 (0.24%) Elm
15 1 (0.24%) Haskell
15 1 (0.24%) OCaml
15 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 69 (16.31%) Degree
2 31 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.84%) ACCA
3 12 (2.84%) CIMA
4 10 (2.36%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.18%) SAP Certification
6 3 (0.71%) CCIE
6 3 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.71%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.47%) CCDE
7 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.13%) SEPA
4 7 (1.65%) GDPR
5 6 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.42%) QA
6 4 (0.95%) NCSC
6 4 (0.95%) NIST
7 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) GMP
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (6.62%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.65%) Terraform
3 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (15.13%) SAP
2 30 (7.09%) Google
3 26 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.26%) Databricks
5 13 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.36%) Amplitude
6 10 (2.36%) Braze
7 7 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.65%) Oracle
8 5 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.71%) Ariba
10 3 (0.71%) Cisco
10 3 (0.71%) IBM
10 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.47%) Adobe
11 2 (0.47%) Okta
11 2 (0.47%) OpenText
12 1 (0.24%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.24%) Sitecore