Palantir Foundry Contract Job Trends in the South East

Palantir Foundry
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Palantir Foundry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 159 206
Rank change year-on-year -19 +47 -
Contract jobs citing Palantir Foundry 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.031% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.81% 0.31% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £503 £613 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.74% -
75th Percentile £628 £638 £560
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £575 £563 £540
% change year-on-year +2.22% +4.17% -16.92%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

Palantir Foundry falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 386 323 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.43% 10.02% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 185 320
10th Percentile £256 £219 £203
25th Percentile £413 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.16% -3.13%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 43
10th Percentile £15.12 £41.25 £23.70
25th Percentile - £55.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +4.17% +36.13%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.10 £67.87 £75.88
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -35.98% +65.05% +32.05%

Palantir Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Palantir Foundry job vacancy trend in the South East

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Palantir Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Palantir Foundry

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Foundry in the South East over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Foundry in the South East

Palantir 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 Palantir Foundry within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Thames Valley - 7 £563 -
Berkshire - 6 £475 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £650 -
Palantir Foundry
England

Palantir Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Foundry
1 7 (100.00%) Palantir
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks