Foundry Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Foundry
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 £719 £525
% change year-on-year -23.45% +36.86% +0.72%

All Vendors
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 643 640 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.39% 41.56% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 254 430
10th Percentile £213 £220 £187
25th Percentile £425 £338 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 191 92
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.00 £16.16
Median hourly rate £22.63 £16.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -63.53% +114.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.79% +83.52%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in the East of England

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Foundry

Foundry
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Foundry.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 2
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft