Foundry Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Foundry
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -12.31%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,564 1,153 1,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.85% 45.45% 52.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 724 910
10th Percentile £258 £220 £213
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -3.65%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £599
90th Percentile £644 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 45
10th Percentile £16.14 £12.98 £12.40
25th Percentile £17.64 £15.19 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.20% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £31.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £47.98 £47.38 £69.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 10
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DKIM
1 1 (50.00%) DMARC
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk