Foundry Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Foundry
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.38% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £625 -
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,081 1,051 1,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 58.94% 49.39% 52.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 630 895
10th Percentile £257 £296 £208
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 33 56
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.64 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.40 £21.25 £18.84
Median hourly rate £21.40 £56.75 £38.77
Median % change year-on-year -62.30% +46.38% +128.03%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.06 £63.78
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.31 £73.79
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Foundry

Foundry
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Foundry.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 7 £475 - 9
Foundry
South East

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
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%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
2 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Palantir
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks