Istio Contract Job Trends in England

Istio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 442 517
Rank change year-on-year -68 +75 +56
Contract jobs citing Istio 50 46 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.97% 1.18% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 21
10th Percentile £417 £360 £450
25th Percentile £495 £469 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £721 £738 £700
90th Percentile £805 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% -10.98%

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 5,141 3,912 4,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.64% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,565 2,535 3,443
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 48 150
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.40 £14.68
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.74 £21.44
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +0.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.36 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +16.80%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Istio job vacancy trend in England

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 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
London -26 25 £675 +3.85% 6
North of England -62 14 £500 -14.89% 4
South East -24 6 £433 - 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £500 -31.03% 2
North East -11 5 £550 -26.67%
North West -28 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
South West - 2 £538 - 1
East of England - 1 £850 -
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Traefik
3 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (70.00%) GitHub
2 26 (52.00%) GCP
2 26 (52.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 25 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (38.00%) Azure
5 13 (26.00%) AWS
5 13 (26.00%) OpenShift
6 9 (18.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (18.00%) Stackdriver
7 8 (16.00%) Google Gemini
8 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (12.00%) Cloud Run
10 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 4 (8.00%) Apigee
12 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (6.00%) Azure Storage
13 2 (4.00%) Anthos
13 2 (4.00%) Pulumi
13 2 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Calico
2 3 (6.00%) Network Security
3 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) VSAN
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (16.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.00%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 31 (62.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (38.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
3 5 (10.00%) Spinnaker
4 4 (8.00%) Git
4 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (12.00%) Retail
2 4 (8.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) GCP Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Senior
3 15 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (18.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Architect
7 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Lead
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
11 2 (4.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 2 (4.00%) Platform Architect
11 2 (4.00%) Principal Architect
11 2 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Keycloak
1 10 (20.00%) Node.js
2 7 (14.00%) Kafka
2 7 (14.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (14.00%) React
3 6 (12.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (12.00%) LangChain
3 6 (12.00%) Spring
3 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (6.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) Swagger
5 2 (4.00%) YAML
6 1 (2.00%) ADO
6 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) Loki
6 1 (2.00%) ModSecurity
6 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) VMS
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (98.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (76.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (74.00%) DevOps
4 23 (46.00%) Containerisation
5 20 (40.00%) Observability
6 19 (38.00%) GitOps
7 15 (30.00%) DevSecOps
7 15 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (28.00%) Microservices
9 10 (20.00%) Generative AI
9 10 (20.00%) Migration
10 9 (18.00%) AI
11 8 (16.00%) Open Source
11 8 (16.00%) Thought Leadership
12 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (12.00%) Front End Development
13 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (12.00%) Open Source Development
13 6 (12.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (74.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) Go
4 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) Java
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
6 3 (6.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) Groovy
7 2 (4.00%) SQL
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.00%) MCP
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) NCSC
2 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.00%) vSphere
4 1 (2.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 50 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 40 (80.00%) Terraform
3 19 (38.00%) Argo
4 14 (28.00%) Ansible
5 13 (26.00%) Grafana
5 13 (26.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (14.00%) linkerd
7 3 (6.00%) Puppet
8 1 (2.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Google
2 13 (26.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (18.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (12.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) Arista
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco
5 2 (4.00%) Wind River
6 1 (2.00%) Clearswift
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable