Palantir Foundry Contract Job Trends

Palantir Foundry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Palantir Foundry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 513 529
Rank change year-on-year -106 +16 +94
Contract jobs citing Palantir Foundry 66 45 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.087%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.42% 1.25% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 14
10th Percentile £504 £463 £500
25th Percentile £506 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £633
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -2.69%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £719
90th Percentile £688 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £475 -
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £49.38 - -
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,645 3,589 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.82% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 2,342 2,642
10th Percentile £286 £278 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.22% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 86 78
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.60 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% +4.20%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.24 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £33.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.98% -39.41% +83.33%

Palantir Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Palantir Foundry job vacancy trend in the UK

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Palantir Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Foundry over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Foundry in the UK

Palantir Foundry
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -87 66 £550 -2.22% 50
UK excluding London -65 36 £513 +7.89% 19
London -100 27 £550 -4.35% 35
North of England - 21 £513 - 5
Work from Home -62 18 £600 -2.04% 21
Yorkshire - 17 £675 - 3
South East -59 7 £536 +12.89% 7
South West - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 £513 -
North West - 4 £513 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £513 -
East Midlands - 1 £513 -

Palantir Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) AWS
2 14 (21.21%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
3 8 (12.12%) GitHub
3 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.52%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Delta Lake
2 5 (7.58%) Metadata
2 5 (7.58%) Parquet
2 5 (7.58%) Power BI
3 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
2 3 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (1.52%) Local Government
4 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (25.76%) Architect
1 17 (25.76%) Data Engineer
2 15 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 15 (22.73%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 15 (22.73%) Data Governance Specialist
3 14 (21.21%) Data Architect
4 12 (18.18%) Palantir Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Palantir Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Databricks Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (9.09%) Platform Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Analyst
8 5 (7.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) PySpark
2 10 (15.15%) Terraform
3 5 (7.58%) JSON
4 3 (4.55%) NumPy
4 3 (4.55%) Pandas
5 2 (3.03%) FHIR
5 2 (3.03%) pytest
6 1 (1.52%) MDX
6 1 (1.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) NHS
2 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Analytics
2 28 (42.42%) AI
3 16 (24.24%) Data Engineering
4 14 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 13 (19.70%) Ontologies
6 12 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (15.15%) Agile
7 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 10 (15.15%) ETL
7 10 (15.15%) Migration
8 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.12%) DevOps
9 8 (12.12%) Validation
10 6 (9.09%) Data Management
10 6 (9.09%) Re-Platforming
10 6 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (7.58%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.36%) SQL
2 23 (34.85%) Python
3 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) HL7
2 2 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Foundry
1 66 (100.00%) Palantir
2 16 (24.24%) Databricks
3 2 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft