Istio Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Istio
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Istio 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
England median daily rate £531 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -3.41% -15.38% -3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 61 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.19% 9.02% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 65
10th Percentile £202 £182 £213
25th Percentile £360 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £407 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £478 £505 £625
90th Percentile £609 £550 £700
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.05
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.49
Median hourly rate £16.50 £13.52 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -17.36% -18.20%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £17.10
90th Percentile - - £17.47
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.02% -24.03% +34.83%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Istio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Istio

Istio
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 2025. 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
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £525 - 1
Istio
England

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Argo
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat