Foundry Contracts in the South East

Foundry
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 202 219
Rank change year-on-year +48 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.054% 0.052%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 £520 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £775 £560 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -36.84%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in the South East

Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foundry in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Foundry in the South East

Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foundry in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Foundry in the South East

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire - 4 - - 3
Thames Valley - 4 - - 4
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (80.00%) LLM
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Palantir