Foundry Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Foundry
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 26 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.45% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -11.54% -10.34% +20.83%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 82 85 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.10% 43.81% 47.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 46 33
10th Percentile £249 £200 £167
25th Percentile £413 £325 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £658 £530 £625
90th Percentile £694 £619 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 19
10th Percentile £14.53 £12.66 £12.25
25th Percentile £25.63 £13.37 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £18.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +137.33% -22.46% +40.46%
75th Percentile - £24.06 £31.88
90th Percentile - £24.50 £40.55
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +35.15% +4.01% -42.40%

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 26 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
County Antrim - 1 £650 -
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI