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 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 560 495 601
Rank change year-on-year -65 +106 +160
Contract jobs citing Palantir Foundry 35 25 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.079% 0.009%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.90% 0.70% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 4
10th Percentile £428 £421 -
25th Percentile £500 £500 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +4.17% -16.92%
75th Percentile £738 £672 £589
90th Percentile - £775 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £625 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.74% -

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 3,878 3,570 4,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 11.35% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 2,188 2,905
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £695 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 72 163
10th Percentile £14.78 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +41.03%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.42 £53.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -52.05% +116.95% +37.87%

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 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Foundry in the UK

Palantir Foundry
Top 5 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 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
England -63 31 £575 +2.22% 2
London -27 22 £575 +4.55% 2
Work from Home +1 14 £675 +17.39% 1
South East -19 7 £563 -10.00%
UK excluding London -54 7 £563 -10.00%

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 8 (22.86%) Confluence
2 6 (17.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Serverless
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Big Data
2 8 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (22.86%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.86%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Gradle
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Military
3 1 (2.86%) Law
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Data Engineer
2 3 (8.57%) Data Scientist
2 3 (8.57%) Python Engineer
2 3 (8.57%) Senior
3 2 (5.71%) Consultant
3 2 (5.71%) Lead
3 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Applications Support
4 1 (2.86%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Architect
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Architect
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (2.86%) Data Architect
4 1 (2.86%) Data Consultant
4 1 (2.86%) Developer
4 1 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) PySpark
2 8 (22.86%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (22.86%) Kafka
3 6 (17.14%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 12 (34.29%) Data Science
4 10 (28.57%) Analytics
4 10 (28.57%) ETL
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Scrum
6 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 6 (17.14%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
9 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 4 (11.43%) Data Protection
11 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
11 3 (8.57%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) DV Cleared
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Foundry
1 35 (100.00%) Palantir
2 8 (22.86%) Cloudera
3 6 (17.14%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft