Calico Contract Job Trends in the South West

Project Calico
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Calico 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £660 £358 -
% change year-on-year +84.36% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 271 249 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.04% 14.95% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 166 329
10th Percentile £277 £235 £285
25th Percentile £403 £392 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +2.20% +3.00%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £649
90th Percentile £690 £688 £703
England median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 6 42
10th Percentile £12.98 £14.85 £12.53
25th Percentile £19.33 £29.59 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +75.00% +308.16%
75th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.60
England median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%

Calico
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calico within the South West 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
Bristol - 1 £600 - 1
Calico
England

Calico
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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