Palantir Foundry Contract Job Trends in London

Palantir Foundry
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Palantir Foundry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 335 395
Rank change year-on-year -27 +60 +138
Contract jobs citing Palantir Foundry 22 22 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.16% 0.005%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.44% 1.32% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 1
10th Percentile £483 £408 -
25th Percentile £500 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £738 £613 £675
90th Percentile - £775 -
England median daily rate £575 £563 £540
% change year-on-year +2.22% +4.17% -16.92%

All Application Platform Skills
London

Palantir Foundry falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,528 1,665 1,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 11.99% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,035 1,432
10th Percentile £328 £303 £262
25th Percentile £415 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £630
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 29
10th Percentile - £17.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.91 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -8.46% +15.22%
75th Percentile £45.25 £38.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £92.44 £41.91 £50.77
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -35.98% +65.05% +32.05%

Palantir Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Palantir Foundry job vacancy trend in London

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Palantir Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Palantir Foundry

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Foundry in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Foundry in London

Palantir Foundry
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palantir Foundry within the London region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Central London -4 2 £413 - 1
Palantir Foundry
England

Palantir Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (36.36%) Confluence
2 6 (27.27%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Serverless
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Big Data
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (36.36%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
General
1 2 (9.09%) Military
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Data Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Lead
3 1 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Apache NiFi
1 8 (36.36%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) PySpark
2 6 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 10 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) Scrum
4 8 (36.36%) Data Science
4 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) ETL
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 6 (27.27%) Microservices
6 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Ontologies
8 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (9.09%) Mathematics
8 2 (9.09%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) DV Cleared
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Foundry
1 22 (100.00%) Palantir
2 8 (36.36%) Cloudera
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks