Foundry Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Foundry
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.22% 0.14% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% - -
75th Percentile £438 £725 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £638 £700 -
% change year-on-year -8.93% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Vendors
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 425 307 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 31.48% 42.00% 45.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 135 216
10th Percentile £345 £235 £238
25th Percentile £434 £362 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -5.13% -11.36%
75th Percentile £622 £581 £616
90th Percentile £666 £650 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 78 81
10th Percentile £13.65 £6.00 £49.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -73.04% +3.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.14 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.13 £74.44
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £21.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year +51.44% -69.34% +23.92%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Bristol

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
1 1 (33.33%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) AI Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (33.33%) Palantir