Palantir Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Palantir
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Palantir products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Palantir over the 6 months leading up to 1 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 Palantir Technologies.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 121 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Palantir 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.095% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £550 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £650 £563 -
90th Percentile £665 - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

All Vendors
City of London

Palantir 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 858 928 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.31% 43.96% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 585 841
10th Percentile £325 £340 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 8
10th Percentile £19.79 £16.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £22.88 £22.13 £16.90
Median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.00% +140.96% -
75th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £42.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -32.14% +102.41% -1.19%

Palantir
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palantir relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Palantir job vacancy trend in the City of London

Palantir
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Palantir.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Palantir

Palantir
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Foundry