Calico Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Project Calico
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Calico skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Calico 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.097% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 128 70 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.36% 12.43% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 34 37
10th Percentile £405 £290 £504
25th Percentile £428 £378 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £564
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -22.70% -10.65%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £622
90th Percentile £688 £609 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £436 £553
% change year-on-year +9.63% -21.16% -6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.50

Calico
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) NaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cilium
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk