Foundry Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Foundry
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 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 Foundry Networks.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 340 475
Rank change year-on-year +52 +135 +144
Contract jobs citing Foundry 16 5 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.033% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.077% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £535 £616 -
25th Percentile £689 £618 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £720 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile - £763 -
90th Percentile £743 £770 -
UK median daily rate £663 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -8.62% +20.83% -9.43%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Foundry
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Foundry trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Foundry.

Foundry daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Foundry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Foundry daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Foundry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MSI
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Administrator
1 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
2 3 (18.75%) Scorecard
2 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (12.50%) Data Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.25%) ITSM
4 1 (6.25%) Service Management
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Palantir
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
5 1 (6.25%) Tanium