Istio Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Istio
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Istio 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
South East median daily rate £433 £567 £460
% change year-on-year -23.72% +23.26% +2.22%

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

Istio falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 38 42 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.36% 14.84% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 48
10th Percentile £163 £260 £210
25th Percentile £185 £328 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -23.14% +16.09%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £643
90th Percentile £590 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.83% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £23.89
25th Percentile - - £24.00
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.56% -
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £42.00
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Istio job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Istio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Istio

Istio
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £402 - 1
Istio
South East

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform