Calico Contract Job Trends in London

Project Calico
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Calico skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 - 458
Rank change year-on-year - - +136
Contract jobs citing Calico 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% - 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £721 - -
25th Percentile £730 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 - £583
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.60%
75th Percentile £805 - £592
90th Percentile £817 - £597
England median daily rate £566 £358 £583
% change year-on-year +58.10% -38.59% +16.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,313 1,502 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.92% 9.34% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 962 1,621
10th Percentile £289 £252 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £722 £750
England median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%

Calico
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Calico as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Calico in London

Calico
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Calico

Calico
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (50.00%) Loki
2 1 (50.00%) ModSecurity
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) etcd
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware