Foundry Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Foundry
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 31 January 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 4.30% - -
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 - -

All Vendors
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 44 66 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 47.31% 65.35% 42.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £213 £208 £291
25th Percentile £265 £225 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -21.05% -25.78%
75th Percentile £666 £497 £500
90th Percentile £688 £698 £615
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile £18.13 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.38 - £14.00
75th Percentile £24.38 - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £19.71 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.18% -14.16% +13.64%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 31 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
Ipswich - 4 £600 -
Foundry
East of England

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks