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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 185 155
Rank change year-on-year -60 -30 -52
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 433 837 1,638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.40% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.27% 4.21% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 675 1,342
10th Percentile £413 £412 £415
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £592 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £731 £719 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £786
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £488 £494
% change year-on-year +2.05% -1.27% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +627.27% -67.65%
75th Percentile - - £11.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,239 19,871 29,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,498 13,667 20,456
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -62 336 £613 +2.08% 318
London -32 238 £675 +8.00% 164
Work from Home -18 221 £563 -2.17% 243
UK excluding London -36 102 £498 +2.05% 161
North of England +11 48 £495 +0.25% 56
North West +18 37 £495 +4.21% 39
East of England +19 11 £863 +38.00% 5
Yorkshire +15 10 £450 -18.18% 12
South West -3 10 £444 -6.58% 18
South East -1 9 £500 -1.48% 32
Midlands -8 9 £535 +12.63% 37
Scotland +11 7 £440 -6.13% 8
East Midlands +22 6 £625 +51.52% 12
Northern Ireland +14 6 - - 3
West Midlands -7 3 £525 +10.53% 25
Wales +2 2 £406 -4.41% 2
North East +16 1 £625 +29.87% 6

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 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.69%) Apache
2 3 (0.69%) CMS
2 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.46%) Kentico
3 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.46%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) InVision
Business Applications
1 27 (6.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.39%) Endur
3 4 (0.92%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.69%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.69%) Shopify
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.46%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.23%) Magento
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 100 (23.09%) AWS
2 84 (19.40%) Azure
3 21 (4.85%) GCP
4 19 (4.39%) Serverless
5 16 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (2.77%) SaaS
8 11 (2.54%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.54%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.62%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.39%) GitHub
11 6 (1.39%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.54%) Firewall
2 7 (1.62%) Network Security
3 5 (1.15%) VPN
4 4 (0.92%) MQTT
5 3 (0.69%) DNS
6 2 (0.46%) BGP
6 2 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.46%) IPsec
6 2 (0.46%) OSPF
6 2 (0.46%) SMS
6 2 (0.46%) SSL
6 2 (0.46%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) FTP
7 1 (0.23%) RTP
7 1 (0.23%) SAN
7 1 (0.23%) SNMP
7 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.62%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.77%) Big Data
5 11 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.39%) Power BI
9 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.69%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.00%) Git
2 15 (3.46%) Cucumber
3 12 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.77%) Moq
3 12 (2.77%) NUnit
3 12 (2.77%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.62%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.39%) GitLab
6 6 (1.39%) Mocha
7 4 (0.92%) JIRA
7 4 (0.92%) Selenium
7 4 (0.92%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.69%) Gradle
8 3 (0.69%) JMeter
8 3 (0.69%) JUnit
8 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 3 (0.69%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.69%) TestNG
8 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 105 (24.25%) Finance
2 50 (11.55%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.01%) Front Office
4 36 (8.31%) Banking
5 31 (7.16%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.16%) Retail
7 13 (3.00%) Law
7 13 (3.00%) Marketing
8 10 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.62%) Back Office
10 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.39%) Legal
11 6 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.69%) Billing
13 3 (0.69%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (35.80%) Developer
2 43 (9.93%) Architect
2 43 (9.93%) Senior
3 37 (8.55%) C# Developer
4 28 (6.47%) Consultant
5 27 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.77%) Analyst
6 25 (5.77%) Lead
7 24 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 22 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
10 18 (4.16%) .NET Developer
10 18 (4.16%) Java Developer
11 16 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.70%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.23%) React Developer
14 13 (3.00%) Angular Developer
14 13 (3.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.01%) React
2 45 (10.39%) .NET
3 34 (7.85%) Node.js
4 28 (6.47%) .NET Core
5 27 (6.24%) RESTful
6 21 (4.85%) AngularJS
6 21 (4.85%) CSS
6 21 (4.85%) HTML
7 20 (4.62%) Kafka
8 19 (4.39%) REST
9 16 (3.70%) Middleware
10 14 (3.23%) Next.js
10 14 (3.23%) Spring
11 13 (3.00%) ASP.NET
11 13 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 13 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (2.77%) SignalR
13 11 (2.54%) HTML5
14 10 (2.31%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.62%) Hedge funds
2 19 (4.39%) Fixed Income
3 14 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.08%) Equities
6 6 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.69%) Derivative
8 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.46%) CMDB
9 2 (0.46%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.46%) Life Science
9 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.08%) Android
2 8 (1.85%) Linux
3 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.24%) Agile
2 63 (14.55%) DevOps
3 54 (12.47%) CI/CD
3 54 (12.47%) Software Engineering
4 47 (10.85%) Full Stack Development
5 40 (9.24%) Microservices
6 39 (9.01%) Migration
7 34 (7.85%) Test Automation
8 29 (6.70%) Data Modelling
9 26 (6.00%) Fintech
10 24 (5.54%) Project Management
10 24 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (5.08%) Analytics
12 20 (4.62%) Machine Learning
13 19 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (3.93%) Containerisation
14 17 (3.93%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (3.70%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (3.70%) Data Migration
15 16 (3.70%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 69 (15.94%) C#
2 61 (14.09%) SQL
3 54 (12.47%) Java
3 54 (12.47%) JavaScript
4 51 (11.78%) Python
5 48 (11.09%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.54%) Go
7 9 (2.08%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.08%) Ruby
8 7 (1.62%) PHP
8 7 (1.62%) Scala
9 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.46%) Bash
12 2 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.46%) Clojure
12 2 (0.46%) Haskell
12 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.16%) Degree
4 11 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.69%) CCNP
8 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.46%) CISM
8 2 (0.46%) CISSP
8 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.46%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PgMP
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.54%) QA
2 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.69%) GAAP
4 3 (0.69%) GRC
4 3 (0.69%) MiFID
4 3 (0.69%) NIST
5 2 (0.46%) GPG13
5 2 (0.46%) NCSC
5 2 (0.46%) PMO
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 44 (10.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.62%) Terraform
3 16 (3.70%) Ansible
4 5 (1.15%) Grafana
4 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) Puppet
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (8.31%) SAP
2 24 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.16%) Oracle
4 12 (2.77%) TIBCO
5 11 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.62%) Databricks
8 6 (1.39%) Google
8 6 (1.39%) OpenLink
8 6 (1.39%) VMware
9 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.69%) Cisco
10 3 (0.69%) Yardi
11 2 (0.46%) Adobe
11 2 (0.46%) Apple
11 2 (0.46%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.46%) F5
11 2 (0.46%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.46%) Splunk