Hybrid/Remote Foundry Contract Job Trends

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 18 December 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 300 372
Rank change year-on-year +2 +72 +173
Contract jobs citing Foundry 26 14 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.12% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.27% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 1
10th Percentile £405 £528 -
25th Percentile £438 £531 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.64%
75th Percentile £738 £869 £675
90th Percentile £753 £1,023 -
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £540
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -8.09%

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 4,989 5,252 7,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 49.04% 45.04% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,166 4,868
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 91 182
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £20.06 £23.84 £31.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -33.33% +8.50%
75th Percentile £63.63 £66.01 £75.38
90th Percentile £69.99 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Foundry and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Foundry job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Foundry
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Foundry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Foundry

Foundry
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Foundry over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Foundry daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure AI
2 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.85%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Hardhat
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Analytics Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Blockchain Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Science Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) HR Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) LangChain
1 4 (15.38%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.85%) NLTK
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.85%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (3.85%) SpaCy
3 1 (3.85%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.54%) Low-Code
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (38.46%) AI
2 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 10 (38.46%) ETL
3 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) Data Science
4 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (30.77%) Visualisation
5 7 (26.92%) Data Ingestion
5 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
5 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Analytics
7 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (11.54%) LLM
8 3 (11.54%) User Research
8 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) NCSC
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Palantir
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Medallia
3 1 (3.85%) SAP