Palantir Foundry Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Palantir Foundry
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palantir Foundry 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.32% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £628 - -
90th Percentile £656 - -
South East median daily rate £563 £625 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.74% -

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 226 141 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.26% 8.29% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 81 145
10th Percentile £343 £213 £203
25th Percentile £417 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.16% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 18
10th Percentile - - £23.32
25th Percentile £81.00 £41.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £82.00 £63.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +110.50% -37.90%
75th Percentile £97.50 £64.73 £61.65
90th Percentile £102.20 - £69.64
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +29.60% +4.17% +36.13%

Palantir Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Palantir Foundry job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Foundry in the Thames Valley

Palantir 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 Palantir Foundry within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 6 £475 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £650 -
Palantir Foundry
South East

Palantir 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:

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