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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 202 163
Rank change year-on-year -47 -39 -52
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 404 739 1,530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.32% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.12% 3.96% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 590 1,261
10th Percentile £413 £412 £418
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -65 319 £600 - 285
London -25 230 £650 +4.00% 149
Work from Home -2 204 £575 -1.29% 194
UK excluding London -37 95 £495 -1.00% 144
North of England +19 47 £495 -3.41% 48
North West +31 38 £495 -1.00% 32
South East -1 10 £500 -1.48% 24
Scotland +19 8 £451 -9.75% 11
Yorkshire +6 8 £450 -17.24% 12
East of England +4 8 £875 +37.25% 6
South West -3 8 £500 +5.26% 13
Midlands -12 7 £585 +23.16% 35
East Midlands +9 5 £625 +31.58% 16
Northern Ireland +6 5 - - 4
Wales +12 2 £713 +67.65% 3
West Midlands -18 2 £523 +4.50% 19
North East +10 1 £625 +40.85% 4

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 3 (0.74%) Apache
1 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.74%) CMS
1 3 (0.74%) nginx
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.50%) Kentico
2 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.25%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (5.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.24%) Endur
3 3 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.74%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Maximo
5 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.25%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.01%) AWS
2 81 (20.05%) Azure
3 22 (5.45%) Serverless
4 20 (4.95%) GCP
5 18 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.72%) SaaS
8 10 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (1.98%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.49%) GitHub
11 6 (1.49%) npm
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.24%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.97%) Firewall
2 7 (1.73%) Network Security
3 5 (1.24%) VPN
4 4 (0.99%) MQTT
5 3 (0.74%) AMQP
5 3 (0.74%) DNS
6 2 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.50%) IPsec
6 2 (0.50%) OSPF
6 2 (0.50%) SMS
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) Wireless
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.95%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (3.47%) Big Data
3 14 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.23%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.23%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.73%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.24%) Power BI
8 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.74%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (5.94%) Git
2 13 (3.22%) Cucumber
2 13 (3.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.72%) Cypress.io
3 11 (2.72%) NUnit
4 10 (2.48%) Moq
4 10 (2.48%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.73%) Android Studio
5 7 (1.73%) Mocha
6 5 (1.24%) GitLab
7 4 (0.99%) JIRA
7 4 (0.99%) Selenium
7 4 (0.99%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.74%) Snyk
8 3 (0.74%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.50%) Gradle
9 2 (0.50%) Postman
9 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.50%) TestNG
9 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 104 (25.74%) Finance
2 45 (11.14%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.67%) Banking
4 31 (7.67%) Front Office
5 18 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.96%) Financial Institution
6 16 (3.96%) Retail
7 13 (3.22%) Law
8 11 (2.72%) Marketing
9 7 (1.73%) Back Office
9 7 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.24%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.99%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.74%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.74%) Legal
12 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (36.14%) Developer
2 44 (10.89%) Architect
3 41 (10.15%) Senior
4 36 (8.91%) C# Developer
5 29 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (6.44%) Consultant
6 26 (6.44%) Full Stack Developer
7 21 (5.20%) Lead
8 20 (4.95%) Analyst
8 20 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.46%) Java Developer
11 17 (4.21%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.96%) Angular Developer
12 16 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (3.96%) Business Analyst
13 14 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.47%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.47%) React Developer
13 14 (3.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.13%) React
2 43 (10.64%) .NET
3 33 (8.17%) Node.js
4 26 (6.44%) .NET Core
4 26 (6.44%) AngularJS
4 26 (6.44%) Kafka
4 26 (6.44%) RESTful
5 18 (4.46%) CSS
5 18 (4.46%) HTML
5 18 (4.46%) REST
6 14 (3.47%) Next.js
6 14 (3.47%) Spring
7 13 (3.22%) Middleware
7 13 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (2.72%) ASP.NET
8 11 (2.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (2.72%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.48%) SignalR
10 9 (2.23%) HTML5
11 8 (1.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.47%) Hedge funds
2 12 (2.97%) Fixed Income
3 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.49%) Equities
6 5 (1.24%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.99%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.74%) FMCG
8 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.50%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.23%) Android
2 7 (1.73%) Linux
3 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (18.32%) Agile
2 63 (15.59%) DevOps
3 53 (13.12%) CI/CD
4 50 (12.38%) Software Engineering
5 47 (11.63%) Full Stack Development
6 42 (10.40%) Microservices
7 38 (9.41%) Migration
8 33 (8.17%) Test Automation
9 25 (6.19%) Data Modelling
9 25 (6.19%) Fintech
10 24 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (5.20%) Analytics
12 20 (4.95%) Project Management
13 19 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (4.21%) Machine Learning
15 16 (3.96%) Containerisation
16 15 (3.71%) Data Migration
17 14 (3.47%) Business Intelligence
17 14 (3.47%) ERP
18 13 (3.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.08%) C#
2 54 (13.37%) Java
3 53 (13.12%) JavaScript
4 51 (12.62%) SQL
5 42 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 39 (9.65%) Python
7 11 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.48%) Go
9 8 (1.98%) Ruby
10 7 (1.73%) PHP
11 6 (1.49%) Scala
12 4 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.50%) Bash
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) Clojure
14 2 (0.50%) Haskell
14 2 (0.50%) Rust
14 2 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.96%) Degree
4 11 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.50%) CCNP
8 2 (0.50%) CISM
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PMP
8 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.25%) APMP
9 1 (0.25%) PgMP
9 1 (0.25%) RHCE
9 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.25%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.48%) QA
2 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.74%) GAAP
4 3 (0.74%) GRC
4 3 (0.74%) MiFID
4 3 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.50%) GPG13
5 2 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 49 (12.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.92%) Terraform
3 16 (3.96%) Ansible
4 7 (1.73%) Grafana
5 6 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (7.67%) SAP
2 22 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.47%) Oracle
3 14 (3.47%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.48%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.73%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.49%) Google
7 5 (1.24%) Databricks
7 5 (1.24%) F5
7 5 (1.24%) OpenLink
8 4 (0.99%) VMware
9 3 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.74%) Yardi
10 2 (0.50%) Adobe
10 2 (0.50%) Apple
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) Dell
10 2 (0.50%) Intel
10 2 (0.50%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.50%) Splunk