Foundry Contracts

Foundry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 533 664
Rank change year-on-year +31 +131 +189
Contract jobs citing Foundry 54 29 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.074% 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.17% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 0
10th Percentile £404 £586 -
25th Percentile £472 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - -
75th Percentile £700 £763 -
90th Percentile £768 £777 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,674 17,038 23,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 43.65% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,567 10,692 15,365
10th Percentile £278 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 811 856 652
10th Percentile £14.30 £13.58 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £40.41
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -30.71% +83.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.60 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year -18.85% -14.86% +63.05%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foundry.

Daily rate trend for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foundry over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foundry.

Hourly rate trend for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 August 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
England +46 47 £550 -24.14% 83
London +29 39 £550 -24.14% 62
Work from Home +28 14 £463 -35.76% 43
UK excluding London +4 8 £700 - 37
South East - 4 £750 - 16
South West +27 2 £475 - 1
North of England -9 1 £725 - 10
Wales - 1 £675 -
North West - 1 £725 - 8

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 8 (14.81%) Apache
3 5 (9.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 14 (25.93%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) Serverless
4 6 (11.11%) Azure AI
5 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.56%) dbt
7 3 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (3.70%) GCP
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.85%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.85%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Hadoop
2 11 (20.37%) Big Data
3 10 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 5 (9.26%) Power BI
5 5 (9.26%) Tableau
6 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.41%) Spark SQL
7 3 (5.56%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Hardhat
3 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 12 (22.22%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.85%) Front Office
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Data Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Data Science Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) PySpark
2 10 (18.52%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (18.52%) Kafka
3 8 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (9.26%) LangChain
5 4 (7.41%) Pandas
5 4 (7.41%) scikit-learn
6 3 (5.56%) CSS
6 3 (5.56%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) Gradio
7 2 (3.70%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.70%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (3.70%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (3.70%) Streamlit
8 1 (1.85%) ethers.js
8 1 (1.85%) NLTK
8 1 (1.85%) React
8 1 (1.85%) SpaCy
8 1 (1.85%) Truffle
8 1 (1.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.70%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.70%) Web3
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Life Science
6 1 (1.85%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (27.78%) Agile
3 13 (24.07%) Scrum
4 12 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 10 (18.52%) Analytics
5 10 (18.52%) Data Science
6 9 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 9 (16.67%) LLM
7 8 (14.81%) Microservices
8 7 (12.96%) Generative AI
8 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Visualisation
9 6 (11.11%) Data Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.11%) ETL
10 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.26%) Ontologies
11 4 (7.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) R
6 2 (3.70%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
7 1 (1.85%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Rust
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.85%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (72.22%) Palantir
2 10 (18.52%) Cloudera
3 5 (9.26%) Databricks
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) Medallia
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) SAP