Foundry Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Foundry
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.30% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £750 - -

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 136 137 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 41.46% 36.44% 49.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 87 143
10th Percentile £190 £161 £181
25th Percentile £290 £210 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Wales median daily rate £325 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £13.47 £24.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £25.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +109.07% +32.86%
75th Percentile £20.75 £51.88 £26.31
90th Percentile £27.85 £54.25 £65.87
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +44.94%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in South Wales

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Cardiff - 1 £750 -
Foundry
Wales

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft