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 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 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.60% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
England median daily rate £550 £635 £525
% change year-on-year -13.39% +20.95% -

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 662 650 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.48% 43.36% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 273 417
10th Percentile £213 £233 £190
25th Percentile £425 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +5.95%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £610
90th Percentile £688 £644 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 167 97
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.55 £15.62 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.53 £16.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.82% -61.81% +76.17%
75th Percentile £57.88 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Foundry job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the East of England

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 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
Cambridgeshire - 7 £550 - 3
Bedfordshire - 1 £625 -
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure AKS
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 6 (75.00%) Azure Functions
3 6 (75.00%) PaaS
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 7 (87.50%) RESTful
2 7 (87.50%) Semantic Kernel
3 6 (75.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (12.50%) Pandas
5 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) API Management
2 7 (87.50%) Data Privacy
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) API Design
3 6 (75.00%) Deep Learning
4 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Data Science
5 4 (50.00%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) Validation
7 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 2 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) EU AI Act
2 6 (75.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI