Foundry Contract Job Trends in the North West

Foundry
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 March 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £689 £600
% change year-on-year -12.92% +14.83% -4.00%

All Vendors
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,299 1,070 1,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 45.95% 52.40% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 648 751
10th Percentile £213 £250 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £576
90th Percentile £687 £673 £663
England median daily rate £507 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 50 140
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.84 £11.13
25th Percentile £21.13 £25.26 £14.41
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.04
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +90.76% -43.21%
75th Percentile £61.09 £60.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
% change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the North West

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Foundry

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry in the North West over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the North West

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 March 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
Manchester - 5 £550 - 2
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) ERP
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) OCR
4 2 (40.00%) Semantic Search
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks