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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 189 161
Rank change year-on-year -60 -28 -53
Contract jobs citing Greenfield Project 399 795 1,572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.39% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 4.17% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 643 1,299
10th Percentile £413 £407 £415
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £488 £494
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.27% +9.72%
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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -66 312 £600 - 379
London -28 225 £650 +4.00% 221
Work from Home -15 203 £575 - 286
UK excluding London -51 93 £495 +1.54% 241
North of England +8 42 £495 +0.25% 64
North West +7 33 £495 +4.21% 37
East of England +12 10 £875 +40.00% 7
South West +2 10 £444 -1.39% 14
South East +3 9 £500 -1.48% 98
Yorkshire +9 8 £450 -22.58% 18
Scotland +20 7 £450 -5.26% 14
Midlands -18 7 £585 +23.16% 33
East Midlands +15 5 £625 +31.58% 13
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 7
Wales +7 3 £425 - 5
West Midlands -13 2 £523 +10.00% 20
North East +10 1 £625 +31.58% 9

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 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.75%) CMS
1 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Apache
2 2 (0.50%) Kentico
2 2 (0.50%) nginx
2 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
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 21 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.50%) Endur
3 3 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.75%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.50%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Maximo
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 FI/CO
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.31%) AWS
2 81 (20.30%) Azure
3 19 (4.76%) GCP
3 19 (4.76%) Serverless
4 18 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (3.01%) SaaS
7 10 (2.51%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.50%) GitHub
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (1.25%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.25%) npm
11 5 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.01%) Firewall
2 7 (1.75%) Network Security
3 5 (1.25%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) MQTT
5 3 (0.75%) DNS
6 2 (0.50%) AMQP
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 (5.01%) NoSQL
2 16 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (3.26%) Big Data
6 11 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.50%) Power BI
10 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.75%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (6.27%) Git
2 14 (3.51%) Cucumber
3 11 (2.76%) Cypress.io
3 11 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.76%) NUnit
4 10 (2.51%) Moq
4 10 (2.51%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.75%) Android Studio
5 7 (1.75%) Mocha
6 5 (1.25%) GitLab
6 5 (1.25%) Selenium
6 5 (1.25%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.00%) JIRA
8 3 (0.75%) Gradle
8 3 (0.75%) JMeter
8 3 (0.75%) JUnit
8 3 (0.75%) Maven
8 3 (0.75%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.75%) TestNG
8 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (24.56%) Finance
2 43 (10.78%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.02%) Banking
4 31 (7.77%) Front Office
4 31 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.76%) Retail
7 14 (3.51%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.26%) Law
9 11 (2.76%) Marketing
10 7 (1.75%) Back Office
10 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.00%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.75%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.75%) Legal
13 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.50%) Automotive
14 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (36.09%) Developer
2 43 (10.78%) Senior
3 40 (10.03%) Architect
4 35 (8.77%) C# Developer
5 29 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.77%) Consultant
7 24 (6.02%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (5.51%) Analyst
8 22 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.26%) Lead
10 20 (5.01%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.51%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.26%) .NET Developer
12 17 (4.26%) Angular Developer
13 15 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (3.76%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.26%) Project Manager
15 13 (3.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.78%) React
2 41 (10.28%) .NET
3 34 (8.52%) Node.js
4 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
4 26 (6.52%) AngularJS
4 26 (6.52%) RESTful
5 25 (6.27%) Kafka
6 19 (4.76%) REST
7 18 (4.51%) CSS
7 18 (4.51%) HTML
8 14 (3.51%) Middleware
8 14 (3.51%) Next.js
8 14 (3.51%) Spring
9 12 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (2.76%) ASP.NET
10 11 (2.76%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (2.51%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.51%) HTML5
11 10 (2.51%) SignalR
12 8 (2.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.76%) Hedge funds
2 13 (3.26%) Fixed Income
3 11 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.50%) Equities
5 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.75%) FMCG
7 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.50%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.01%) Android
2 7 (1.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (18.30%) Agile
2 60 (15.04%) DevOps
3 51 (12.78%) CI/CD
4 50 (12.53%) Software Engineering
5 46 (11.53%) Full Stack Development
6 40 (10.03%) Microservices
7 38 (9.52%) Migration
8 34 (8.52%) Test Automation
9 28 (7.02%) Data Modelling
10 25 (6.27%) Fintech
11 22 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (5.26%) Analytics
12 21 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (4.76%) Machine Learning
13 19 (4.76%) Project Management
14 16 (4.01%) Containerisation
14 16 (4.01%) Data Migration
15 14 (3.51%) Electronic Trading
15 14 (3.51%) ERP
15 14 (3.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (17.04%) C#
2 54 (13.53%) Java
2 54 (13.53%) SQL
3 53 (13.28%) JavaScript
4 43 (10.78%) Python
4 43 (10.78%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.51%) Go
5 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
6 8 (2.01%) Ruby
7 7 (1.75%) PHP
7 7 (1.75%) Scala
8 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.50%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) C
10 2 (0.50%) Clojure
10 2 (0.50%) Haskell
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
10 2 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.01%) Degree
4 11 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.50%) CCNP
7 2 (0.50%) CISM
7 2 (0.50%) CISSP
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.50%) PMP
7 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.25%) APMP
8 1 (0.25%) PgMP
8 1 (0.25%) RHCE
8 1 (0.25%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.76%) QA
2 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) GAAP
4 3 (0.75%) GRC
4 3 (0.75%) MiFID
4 3 (0.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.50%) GPG13
5 2 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 46 (11.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.02%) Terraform
3 15 (3.76%) Ansible
4 5 (1.25%) Grafana
4 5 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.25%) Puppet
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.52%) SAP
2 23 (5.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.76%) Oracle
4 12 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.51%) TIBCO
6 7 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.50%) Google
7 6 (1.50%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.00%) Databricks
8 4 (1.00%) VMware
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.75%) 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%) F5
10 2 (0.50%) IBM
10 2 (0.50%) Intel
10 2 (0.50%) Splunk