Foundry Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Foundry
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bolton 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 30 January 2026, 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 14.29% - -
As % of the Vendors category 30.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £650 - -

All Vendors
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13 11 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 46.43% 44.00% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £364 £164 £400
25th Percentile £550 £174 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £185 £500
Median % change year-on-year +212.84% -63.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £640 £223 -
90th Percentile £650 £250 -
Manchester median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £30.08 - -
25th Percentile £30.19 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £30.75 £60.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% +51.90% -39.23%
75th Percentile £31.69 - £51.75
90th Percentile £32.03 - £56.70
Manchester median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -22.62% +83.41% -72.74%

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks