Foundry Contracts in the UK excluding London

Foundry
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 395 458
Rank change year-on-year +79 +63 +53
Contract jobs citing Foundry 20 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.019% 0.017%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.045% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £620 - -
25th Percentile £689 £520 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% - -
75th Percentile - £560 -
90th Percentile £719 - -
UK median daily rate £663 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -8.62% +20.83% -9.43%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foundry in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foundry in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +52 7 £475 - 4
Midlands - 7 £700 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £700 -
South East +48 5 £750 +38.89% 13
Wales - 1 £675 -
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (10.00%) Military
3 2 (10.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Administrator
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Developer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) LangChain
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Generative AI
1 5 (25.00%) LLM
1 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (20.00%) Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) ITSM
3 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (15.00%) Scorecard
3 3 (15.00%) Service Management
3 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Palantir
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Tanium