Foundry Contract Job Trends 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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 368 430
Rank change year-on-year +10 +62 +81
Contract jobs citing Foundry 20 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.017% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.039% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 - -
75th Percentile £722 - -
90th Percentile £739 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £635 £525
% change year-on-year -13.39% +20.95% -

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 7,544 7,773 10,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.08% 44.33% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,663 4,459 6,426
10th Percentile £220 £220 £209
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 516 525
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.46 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.96 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.35 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -29.41% +111.81%
75th Percentile £38.81 £63.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.42% +79.84%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry

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 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry

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 5 October 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
East of England - 8 £550 - 3
South East - 7 £475 - 14
South West +19 2 £700 - 2
North of England -23 2 £738 - 4
North West - 2 £738 - 4
Wales - 1 £675 -
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure AKS
2 7 (35.00%) GitHub
2 7 (35.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
3 6 (30.00%) PaaS
3 6 (30.00%) Serverless
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) Azure AI
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Vertex AI
7 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 7 (35.00%) RESTful
2 7 (35.00%) Semantic Kernel
3 6 (30.00%) .NET
4 5 (25.00%) PySpark
5 3 (15.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (15.00%) scikit-learn
6 2 (10.00%) Pandas
7 1 (5.00%) LangChain
7 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (35.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (45.00%) LLM
4 8 (40.00%) Data Science
4 8 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) API Management
5 7 (35.00%) Data Privacy
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) API Design
6 6 (30.00%) Deep Learning
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (25.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) MCP
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) EU AI Act
2 6 (30.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Palantir
3 4 (20.00%) Databricks
4 3 (15.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) OpenAI