Foundry Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Foundry
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.55% - -
As % of the Vendors category 6.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 103 72 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 52.28% 35.64% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 26 25
10th Percentile £306 £335 £180
25th Percentile £438 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +17.65% +1.08%
75th Percentile £614 £631 £525
90th Percentile £699 £694 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £531 £493 £475
% change year-on-year +7.87% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £18.18 £38.75 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.19 £51.25 £15.76
Median hourly rate £29.75 £57.50 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year -48.26% +249.17% -80.63%
75th Percentile £37.69 £72.19 £17.12
90th Percentile £41.93 £75.00 £17.24
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.36 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +0.77% +11.93% -6.45%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry in Cambridge over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in Cambridge

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Functions
2 6 (85.71%) PaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
1 7 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 7 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) API Management
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 7 (100.00%) LLM
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) API Design
2 6 (85.71%) Deep Learning
3 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) Data Science
5 3 (42.86%) Validation
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
6 2 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) EU AI Act
2 6 (85.71%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft