Foundry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Foundry products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foundry over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Foundry Networks.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 717 807
Rank change year-on-year +154 +90 -135
Contract jobs citing Foundry 23 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.008% 0.027%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.019% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 12
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £615 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -9.43% +76.67%
75th Percentile £763 - £975
90th Percentile £775 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 - -

All Vendors
UK

Foundry is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,620 25,725 35,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.67% 42.85% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 17,221 23,382
10th Percentile £262 £270 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 709 893
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.24 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.49% +104.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% -0.70%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foundry.

Daily rate trend for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foundry.

Hourly rate trend for Foundry in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +138 23 £725 +20.83% 21
London +124 19 £725 +20.83% 9
Work from Home +129 5 £720 - 24
UK excluding London +70 4 £540 - 17
South East +12 3 £540 -
South West - 1 - - 3

Foundry
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 (13.04%) Confluence
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.35%) Figma
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
2 4 (17.39%) Presto
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.35%) Mechanical Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Ontologies
3 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
4 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
4 10 (43.48%) Data Integration
4 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 10 (43.48%) Data Science
4 10 (43.48%) ETL
5 7 (30.43%) Analytics
5 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Project Management
6 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
6 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (26.09%) Data Security
6 6 (26.09%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
6 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
6 6 (26.09%) Workflow
6 6 (26.09%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 16 (69.57%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Palantir
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) SAP
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft