Foundry Contract Job Trends in the South West

Foundry
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 130 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.047% 0.17% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -10.64%

All Vendors
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 921 1,091 1,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.65% 45.52% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 645 870
10th Percentile £223 £278 £263
25th Percentile £373 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 72 117
10th Percentile £14.47 £25.03 £19.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.13 £46.92
Median hourly rate £23.79 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.76% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £38.21 £70.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £72.05 £73.98 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +74.51%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the South West

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Foundry
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Foundry.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Bristol - 1 £700 - 4
Foundry
England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC