Foundry Contract Job Trends 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 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 451 498 587
Rank change year-on-year +47 +89 +190
Contract jobs citing Foundry 71 34 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.10% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.24% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 15 2
10th Percentile £393 £500 £400
25th Percentile £463 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +20.95% -
75th Percentile £700 £741 £613
90th Percentile £738 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £635 £525
% change year-on-year -13.39% +20.95% -

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 13,389 14,433 18,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 44.53% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,507 8,666 12,271
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £628 £650
90th Percentile £700 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 539 617
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.62 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £69.82 £71.25 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +81.93%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in England

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foundry

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in England

Foundry
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foundry

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 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
London +52 50 £550 -13.39% 26
East of England - 8 £550 - 4
South East - 7 £475 - 14
South West +17 2 £700 - 2
North of England -23 2 £738 - 4
North West - 2 £738 - 4
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (18.31%) Confluence
2 10 (14.08%) Apache
3 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) Azure
2 18 (25.35%) Serverless
3 17 (23.94%) AWS
4 15 (21.13%) Azure AI
5 12 (16.90%) GitHub
5 12 (16.90%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (15.49%) PaaS
7 9 (12.68%) Azure AKS
8 8 (11.27%) Azure Functions
9 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (7.04%) Vertex AI
11 4 (5.63%) GCP
12 3 (4.23%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (4.23%) ChatGPT
12 3 (4.23%) Google Gemini
12 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (2.82%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) Hadoop
2 14 (19.72%) Big Data
3 13 (18.31%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (9.86%) Power BI
5 6 (8.45%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.04%) Spark SQL
7 3 (4.23%) Apache Hive
7 3 (4.23%) Tableau
8 1 (1.41%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) Hardhat
3 1 (1.41%) Gradle
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Legal
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Front Office
6 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Electronics
7 1 (1.41%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Military
7 1 (1.41%) Police
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (36.62%) Data Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) Senior
3 7 (9.86%) Data Scientist
4 6 (8.45%) Architect
4 6 (8.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Data Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Lead
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Lead Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Data Science Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) PySpark
2 14 (19.72%) Semantic Kernel
3 13 (18.31%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (18.31%) Kafka
4 12 (16.90%) PyTorch
5 11 (15.49%) .NET
6 10 (14.08%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (14.08%) TensorFlow
7 9 (12.68%) RESTful
8 8 (11.27%) scikit-learn
9 7 (9.86%) LangChain
9 7 (9.86%) Pandas
10 4 (5.63%) CSS
10 4 (5.63%) HTML
11 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.23%) LangGraph
11 3 (4.23%) NumPy
11 3 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (4.23%) React
12 2 (2.82%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.08%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.63%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) NHS
6 2 (2.82%) Web3
7 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) Artificial Intelligence
2 27 (38.03%) Software Engineering
3 26 (36.62%) Agile
4 25 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (33.80%) Data Science
6 23 (32.39%) Machine Learning
6 23 (32.39%) Scrum
7 19 (26.76%) LLM
8 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (22.54%) Prompt Engineering
10 15 (21.13%) Analytics
11 13 (18.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 11 (15.49%) Microservices
13 9 (12.68%) API Management
13 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
13 9 (12.68%) Data Privacy
13 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
13 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
13 9 (12.68%) Visualisation
14 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.93%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) SQL
3 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.23%) Bicep
5 3 (4.23%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) Java
7 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Rust
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.41%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) DV Cleared
3 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.68%) MCP
5 7 (9.86%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) EU AI Act
2 8 (11.27%) NIST
3 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (57.75%) Palantir
2 18 (25.35%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.31%) Cloudera
4 6 (8.45%) Databricks
4 6 (8.45%) Google
4 6 (8.45%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.23%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.41%) Informatica
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) SAP