Foundry Contracts in England

Foundry
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 519 648
Rank change year-on-year +74 +129 +122
Contract jobs citing Foundry 40 23 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.062% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.15% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 1
10th Percentile £413 £520 -
25th Percentile £522 £615 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -36.84%
75th Percentile £700 £763 -
90th Percentile £708 £775 -
UK median daily rate £663 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -8.62% +20.83% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.60 - -

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in England

Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foundry in England.

Daily rate trend for Foundry in England

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in England

Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foundry in England.

Hourly rate trend for Foundry in England

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +39 20 £550 -24.14% 34
South West +52 7 £475 - 4
West Midlands - 7 £700 -
Midlands - 7 £700 - 1
South East +48 5 £750 +38.89% 13
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
1 3 (7.50%) Tableau
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) MSI
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Military
5 2 (5.00%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Data Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) VMS
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (22.50%) Analytics
2 9 (22.50%) Data Analysis
3 8 (20.00%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
4 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
5 6 (15.00%) Project Management
6 5 (12.50%) Change Management
6 5 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 5 (12.50%) LLM
7 4 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
8 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (7.50%) ITSM
8 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) R
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Palantir
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.50%) Tanium