Foundry Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Foundry
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.54% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £650 - -

All Vendors
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 66 81 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 35.87% 42.63% 51.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 32
10th Percentile £328 £200 £167
25th Percentile £425 £325 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -22.73% +33.33%
75th Percentile £663 £530 £625
90th Percentile £694 £619 £675
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £21.49 £12.66 £12.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £13.37 £17.09
Median hourly rate £44.50 £18.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +137.33% -22.46% +40.46%
75th Percentile - £24.06 £28.03
90th Percentile - £24.50 £36.90
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £44.50 £18.75 £24.18
% change year-on-year +137.33% -22.46% +40.46%

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
Belfast - 1 £650 -
Foundry
Northern Ireland

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI