Foundry Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Foundry
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 4 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
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.89% - -
As % of the Vendors category 3.87% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 181 182 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 48.79% 42.82% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 34 50
10th Percentile £285 £362 £180
25th Percentile £438 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £614 £609 £558
90th Percentile £700 £649 £600
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 101 30
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.16 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.36 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £34.19 £16.85 £18.68
90th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £23.14
East of England median hourly rate £22.53 £16.23 £42.50
% change year-on-year +38.82% -61.81% +76.17%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in Cambridgeshire

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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
Cambridge - 7 £550 - 3
Foundry
East of England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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