Istio Contracts in England

Istio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Istio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Istio over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 504 516
Rank change year-on-year +58 +12 +64
Contract jobs citing Istio 39 38 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% 0.87% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 100
10th Percentile £473 £338 £499
25th Percentile £575 £438 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £709 £485 £650
Median % change year-on-year +46.19% -25.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £534 £700
90th Percentile £750 £613 £741
UK median daily rate £700 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +41.99% -24.15% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £102.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £95.00

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in England

Istio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio in England.

Daily rate trend for Istio in England

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in England

Istio
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +54 22 £713 +32.56% 5
North of England +30 16 £710 +36.54% 10
Yorkshire +13 8 £725 +39.42% 5
North West +21 6 £475 - 5
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +29 1 £567 +23.26% 1
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (38.46%) nginx
2 12 (30.77%) Traefik
3 3 (7.69%) Confluence
4 2 (5.13%) Apache
4 2 (5.13%) Camunda
4 2 (5.13%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.13%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (35.90%) Amazon ECS
2 14 (35.90%) AWS CloudFormation
2 14 (35.90%) AWS Fargate
2 14 (35.90%) Entra ID
2 14 (35.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Kong
7 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.13%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) npm
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (46.15%) DNS
2 14 (35.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.13%) Calico
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) Redis
3 5 (12.82%) Hazelcast
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.13%) GIS
6 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (58.97%) Jenkins
2 22 (56.41%) GitLab
3 10 (25.64%) Maven
4 9 (23.08%) Git
5 3 (7.69%) JIRA
6 2 (5.13%) Jaeger
6 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (20.51%) Banking
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Military
2 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 13 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Architect
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (71.79%) Kafka
2 16 (41.03%) Keycloak
3 14 (35.90%) cloud-init
4 12 (30.77%) Spring
5 9 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) J2EE
7 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (5.13%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (5.13%) gRPC
8 2 (5.13%) HTML
8 2 (5.13%) Java EE
8 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) PKI
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Linux
2 16 (41.03%) Unix
3 15 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (35.90%) CentOS
5 2 (5.13%) Android
5 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) DevOps
2 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 24 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (43.59%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (38.46%) Identity Management
6 14 (35.90%) Cloud Security
6 14 (35.90%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 14 (35.90%) Observability
6 14 (35.90%) Secrets Management
6 14 (35.90%) Static Application Security Testing
7 12 (30.77%) Microservices
7 12 (30.77%) Mobile Device Management
8 11 (28.21%) Containerisation
9 10 (25.64%) Agile
10 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.82%) Load Balancing
12 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
13 3 (7.69%) Analytics
13 3 (7.69%) Configuration Management
13 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) Bash
1 22 (56.41%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Java
3 14 (35.90%) Go
4 4 (10.26%) Groovy
5 3 (7.69%) Perl
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 16 (41.03%) AWS Certification
2 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.90%) NCSC
2 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (97.44%) Kubernetes
2 31 (79.49%) Terraform
3 21 (53.85%) Grafana
4 19 (48.72%) Prometheus
5 14 (35.90%) Consul
5 14 (35.90%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (35.90%) linkerd
5 14 (35.90%) Packer
5 14 (35.90%) Rancher
5 14 (35.90%) ZABBIX
6 12 (30.77%) HAProxy
7 7 (17.95%) Argo
8 5 (12.82%) Control-M
9 4 (10.26%) Ansible
10 3 (7.69%) Kustomize
10 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
10 3 (7.69%) Puppet
10 3 (7.69%) Rundeck
11 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (5.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Splunk
2 14 (35.90%) Okta
3 12 (30.77%) Apple
3 12 (30.77%) ESET
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
5 2 (5.13%) Google
5 2 (5.13%) IBM
5 2 (5.13%) xMatters
6 1 (2.56%) Pega
6 1 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) Wind River