Calico Contract Job Trends in England

Project Calico
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England 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 575 465 -
Rank change year-on-year -110 - -
Contract jobs citing Calico 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.008% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.077% 0.064% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.36% - -
75th Percentile £670 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £660 £358 -
% change year-on-year +84.36% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,912 3,107 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.96% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 1,935 2,876
10th Percentile £263 £214 £210
25th Percentile £400 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £488
% change year-on-year +4.06% -1.44% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 114 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.25 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

Calico
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Calico relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Calico job vacancy trend in England

Calico
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Calico.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Calico

Calico
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calico within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 2 £660 -
South West - 1 £600 - 1
Calico
UK

Calico
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) SBOM
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSK
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) KVM
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Istio
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Arista
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Wind River