Foundry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 July 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 629 827
Rank change year-on-year -18 +198 +22
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 125 51 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.022%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.25% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 86 25 9
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,250 £78,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 -
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,651 20,701 31,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.64% 42.08% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 15,501 11,454 20,916
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £54,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -1.08% -7.00%

Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Foundry job vacancy trend in the UK

Foundry
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foundry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foundry

Foundry
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foundry over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Foundry in the UK

Foundry
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 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
England +14 114 £75,000 -11.76% 63
London +35 74 £79,250 -6.76% 43
Work from Home +15 45 £75,000 -10.45% 30
UK excluding London -50 42 £75,000 +7.14% 28
North of England -11 16 £100,000 +66.67% 8
Yorkshire - 13 £100,000 - 4
Midlands - 13 £37,500 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £37,500 -
South East -42 7 - - 10
Scotland - 6 £110,000 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £75,000 - 5
North East - 3 £75,000 -

Foundry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 40 (32.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 12 (9.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.80%) Houdini
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 88 (70.40%) Azure
2 55 (44.00%) Azure AI
3 30 (24.00%) Copilot Studio
4 27 (21.60%) AWS
5 26 (20.80%) Microsoft Copilot
6 21 (16.80%) GCP
7 19 (15.20%) Power Platform
8 17 (13.60%) Azure Machine Learning
9 13 (10.40%) Power Automate
10 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon Bedrock
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (6.40%) Vertex AI
12 7 (5.60%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.60%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (4.80%) Serverless
14 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
14 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.80%) DHCP
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) SSL
2 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.80%) Big Data
4 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Parquet
4 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) MLflow
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Postman
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.20%) Finance
3 23 (18.40%) Public Sector
4 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Legal
6 3 (2.40%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Advertising
8 1 (0.80%) Digital Economy
8 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Senior
2 35 (28.00%) Consultant
3 26 (20.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Developer
5 11 (8.80%) Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Azure Consultant
5 11 (8.80%) Senior Consultant
6 10 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
9 7 (5.60%) Architect
9 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Consultant
9 7 (5.60%) Product Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Data Consultant
10 6 (4.80%) Deployment Consultant
10 6 (4.80%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) LangChain
2 7 (5.60%) LangGraph
3 5 (4.00%) React
4 4 (3.20%) OpenID
4 4 (3.20%) REST
4 4 (3.20%) SAML
4 4 (3.20%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (2.40%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (2.40%) PySpark
6 2 (1.60%) CSS
6 2 (1.60%) HTML
6 2 (1.60%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.80%) .NET
7 1 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.80%) Kafka
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.80%) Swagger
7 1 (0.80%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) AI Agents
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.20%) Low-Code
3 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.20%) NHS
5 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Equities
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.80%) Blog
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.80%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (0.80%) PMI
8 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (67.20%) AI
2 43 (34.40%) Mentoring
3 34 (27.20%) Data Engineering
4 28 (22.40%) LLM
4 28 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (22.40%) Software Engineering
5 26 (20.80%) Decision-Making
5 26 (20.80%) DevOps
5 26 (20.80%) Machine Learning
6 24 (19.20%) Roadmaps
7 21 (16.80%) Business Development
8 20 (16.00%) Analytics
8 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 19 (15.20%) Data Modelling
10 18 (14.40%) Data Architecture
11 17 (13.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (12.80%) Observability
12 16 (12.80%) Thought Leadership
12 16 (12.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.80%) Python
2 25 (20.00%) Java
3 22 (17.60%) SQL
4 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.40%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (9.60%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.60%) Degree
7 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.80%) CBAP
8 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) GRC
2 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.40%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.60%) QA
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.60%) Terraform
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (37.60%) Microsoft
2 42 (33.60%) Palantir
3 25 (20.00%) OpenAI
4 12 (9.60%) Databricks
5 8 (6.40%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) Adobe
6 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.80%) VMware
7 1 (0.80%) Workday