Foundry Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Foundry
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 14 June 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.64% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 - -
75th Percentile £570 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 142 95 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 45.22% 59.01% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 69 43
10th Percentile £133 £150 £166
25th Percentile £134 £348 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £475 £295
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +61.02% -37.89%
75th Percentile £480 £575 £444
90th Percentile £574 £695 £494
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 20
10th Percentile £15.37 - -
25th Percentile £20.78 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% +9.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile - - £18.27
90th Percentile - - £34.32
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £37.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -18.92% +130.39% -45.19%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Liverpool - 2 £544 - 2
Foundry
North West

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palantir