Foundry Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Foundry
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Foundry products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foundry over the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.28% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

Foundry falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 402 390 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.60% 54.02% 53.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 278 259
10th Percentile £258 £190 £257
25th Percentile £365 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £600
90th Percentile £634 £741 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +1.30% +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £17.21 £14.09 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.85 £22.98 £18.69
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.50 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -20.81% -48.08%
75th Percentile £27.25 £30.68 £58.44
90th Percentile £51.15 £39.47 £64.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £29.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -7.76% +29.67% +37.88%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Foundry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Foundry job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Foundry

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DKIM
1 1 (50.00%) DMARC
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk