Palantir Contracts

Palantir
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Palantir products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Palantir over the 6 months leading up to 15 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 Palantir Technologies.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 564 696
Rank change year-on-year +83 +132 +119
Contract jobs citing Palantir 41 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.054% 0.017%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.13% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 7
10th Percentile £423 £523 £508
25th Percentile £466 £618 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +16.00% -34.21%
75th Percentile £722 £763 £638
90th Percentile £775 £780 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £540 £350
% change year-on-year -8.56% +54.29% -

All Vendors
UK

Palantir 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 13,882 18,070 24,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.67% 42.35% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 11,208 16,527
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,111 680
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.13 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

Palantir
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Palantir in the UK

Palantir
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Palantir in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palantir within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +82 39 £588 -18.97% 73
London +57 29 £594 -18.10% 67
UK excluding London +49 9 £494 -8.56% 23
Work from Home +48 8 £513 -24.35% 37
South East +51 7 £513 -5.09% 15
South West - 2 £475 - 2

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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 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (14.63%) Confluence
3 5 (12.20%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.32%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.32%) Serverless
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Tableau
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Power BI
4 2 (4.88%) Redis
5 1 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) MLflow
3 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Data Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Data Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) PySpark
2 5 (12.20%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) Life Science
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Actionable Insight
1 11 (26.83%) Analytics
1 11 (26.83%) Data Engineering
2 10 (24.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (21.95%) ETL
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
5 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
6 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
6 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 6 (14.63%) LLM
6 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
6 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
6 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
7 5 (12.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 5 (12.20%) Project Management
7 5 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (12.20%) User Stories
7 5 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) SQL
3 5 (12.20%) R
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Foundry
2 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.88%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks