Foundry Contract Job Trends in Kent

Foundry
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 2 February 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 2.33% - -
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £540
% change year-on-year -12.00% +15.74% -

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 72 71 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 41.86% 55.47% 53.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 29 93
10th Percentile £180 £177 £200
25th Percentile £324 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £440 £363
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +21.38% +3.57%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £480
90th Percentile £638 £623 £533
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £13.11 £67.99 -
25th Percentile £13.65 £69.44 £11.45
Median hourly rate £14.93 £72.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.47% +315.49% +38.23%
75th Percentile £15.83 £76.83 £20.75
90th Percentile £16.15 £78.79 £23.75
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £36.46 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.28% -23.25% +26.67%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Kent

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Tunbridge Wells - 4 £600 -
Foundry
South East

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks