Foundry Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Foundry
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 17 April 2026, 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foundry 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.82% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 424 243 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.83% 45.94% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 159 269
10th Percentile £310 £249 £284
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £655 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.61% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 23
10th Percentile - £30.43 £12.53
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.76 £13.87
Median hourly rate £16.25 £41.00 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -60.37% +180.34% -45.83%
75th Percentile £28.00 £98.56 £15.19
90th Percentile £46.25 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £27.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year +54.55% +88.03% -29.52%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Foundry

Foundry
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Leeds - 7 £475 - 5
Bradford - 1 - -
Foundry
Yorkshire

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure AI
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (22.22%) Social Science
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Product Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) AI
2 6 (66.67%) Business Case
2 6 (66.67%) LLM
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
3 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Use Case
3 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (22.22%) Service Design
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft