Calico Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Project Calico
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Calico skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Calico 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.078% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South West median daily rate £600 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

Calico falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 114 86 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.89% 14.98% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 43 78
10th Percentile £263 £235 £260
25th Percentile £450 £250 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £382 £532
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -28.13% +11.89%
75th Percentile £572 £490 £646
90th Percentile £650 £587 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £545 £533
% change year-on-year -8.21% +2.20% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 17
10th Percentile £19.33 £36.67 £12.60
25th Percentile £25.88 £65.00 £46.39
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% +563.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile £100.25 - £85.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +75.00% +308.16%

Calico
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware