Foundry Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Foundry
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Foundry products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foundry over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Foundry Networks.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 524 737
Rank change year-on-year -35 +213 -14
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 21 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.017% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £39,750 £70,750 -
25th Percentile £58,438 £79,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £97,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +129.41% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £114,375 £43,750
90th Percentile - £122,250 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +70.59% -50.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Foundry falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,925 11,629 24,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.11% 40.12% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,267 6,543 17,178
10th Percentile £27,898 £26,929 £25,760
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,033
Median % change year-on-year - +11.03% -9.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £74,150
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -13.04%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Foundry relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Foundry job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Foundry

Foundry
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foundry in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Foundry in the UK excluding London

Foundry
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 9 £100,000 - 9
South East -14 8 £57,500 -41.03% 16
Yorkshire - 7 £100,000 - 4
Scotland - 3 - -
North West - 2 £75,000 - 5
South West - 1 £40,000 - 3
Foundry
UK

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (33.33%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure AI
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Machine Learning
2 4 (19.05%) Vertex AI
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) Firebase
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.76%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Broadband
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Product Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Data Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) LangChain
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) Semantic Kernel
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (4.76%) FHIR
4 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) AI Agents
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) PMI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Validation
2 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Business Development
4 6 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 6 (28.57%) LLM
4 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 5 (23.81%) People Management
5 5 (23.81%) Prototyping
5 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
6 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
7 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CBAP
1 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Palantir
2 4 (19.05%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks