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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 457 495
Rank change year-on-year -71 +38 +27
Contract jobs citing Istio 65 24 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.17% 0.64% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 23
10th Percentile £359 £450 £348
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £675 £482
Median % change year-on-year -26.85% +40.04% -25.85%
75th Percentile £656 £738 £530
90th Percentile £747 - £595
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £485
% change year-on-year -18.37% +26.29% -25.38%

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 5,563 3,730 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.39% 15.65% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,830 2,567 3,224
10th Percentile £315 £310 £261
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £625
90th Percentile £688 £714 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 37 97
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.64 £23.80 £17.78
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.92%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +98.20% +0.91% -50.00%

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 23 May 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 23 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
London -56 26 £648 -7.50% 5
North of England -66 18 £426 -27.88% 4
South East -58 11 £402 -29.10% 3
Yorkshire -56 9 £375 -47.11%
North West -36 8 £651 +37.05% 4
South West - 5 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
North East - 1 £426 -
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.54%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (52.31%) GCP
2 33 (50.77%) Azure
3 31 (47.69%) GitHub
4 27 (41.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 26 (40.00%) AWS
6 25 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (29.23%) Azure AKS
8 13 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (15.38%) Google Gemini
9 10 (15.38%) OpenShift
10 8 (12.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (10.77%) Stackdriver
12 6 (9.23%) Apigee
12 6 (9.23%) Azure API Management
12 6 (9.23%) Cloud Run
13 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (7.69%) Serverless
14 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
14 4 (6.15%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DNS
1 4 (6.15%) Network Security
2 3 (4.62%) Calico
2 3 (4.62%) Firewall
3 2 (3.08%) VPN
3 2 (3.08%) VSAN
4 1 (1.54%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) ICMP
4 1 (1.54%) Internet
4 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) Redis
2 9 (13.85%) BigQuery
2 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 30 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 21 (32.31%) GitLab
3 11 (16.92%) Git
4 8 (12.31%) SonarQube
5 6 (9.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (7.69%) JIRA
7 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
7 4 (6.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.15%) Jaeger
8 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.08%) JUnit
9 2 (3.08%) Postman
9 2 (3.08%) Selenium
9 2 (3.08%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.54%) Gatling
10 1 (1.54%) Gradle
10 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (13.85%) Banking
2 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Retail
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) DevOps Engineer
1 19 (29.23%) Senior
2 18 (27.69%) GCP Engineer
3 15 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (21.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) Architect
6 10 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (12.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) GCP DevOps
10 4 (6.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (15.38%) Kafka
3 9 (13.85%) Node.js
4 8 (12.31%) React
4 8 (12.31%) Spring
5 7 (10.77%) LangChain
5 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
6 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.23%) OAuth
6 6 (9.23%) OAuth2
6 6 (9.23%) REST
7 5 (7.69%) .NET
7 5 (7.69%) Keycloak
7 5 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.69%) Swagger
8 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (6.15%) Loki
8 4 (6.15%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (6.15%) OpenID
9 3 (4.62%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.31%) Public Cloud
4 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (6.15%) Mobile App
6 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.62%) AI Agents
8 2 (3.08%) PKI
8 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.54%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.54%) EMV
9 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
3 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) CI/CD
2 46 (70.77%) DevOps
3 38 (58.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (55.38%) Containerisation
4 36 (55.38%) Observability
5 27 (41.54%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (38.46%) Microservices
7 20 (30.77%) GitOps
8 18 (27.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (21.54%) DevSecOps
10 10 (15.38%) AI
10 10 (15.38%) Generative AI
10 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
10 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (15.38%) Open Source
10 10 (15.38%) SDLC
11 9 (13.85%) API Management
11 9 (13.85%) Cloud Security
11 9 (13.85%) Load Balancing
12 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.85%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) Bash
3 12 (18.46%) Go
4 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) Bicep
7 4 (6.15%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) SQL
8 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.08%) CCSK
5 2 (3.08%) CISSP
6 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.54%) CCSP
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CISM
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) NCSC
1 6 (9.23%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.15%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) GRC
3 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 30 (46.15%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) vSphere
4 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.54%) KVM
5 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 44 (67.69%) Terraform
3 28 (43.08%) Prometheus
4 22 (33.85%) Grafana
5 17 (26.15%) Argo
6 15 (23.08%) linkerd
7 12 (18.46%) Ansible
8 5 (7.69%) Kustomize
9 4 (6.15%) Puppet
10 3 (4.62%) Rancher
11 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Google
2 11 (16.92%) Dynatrace
3 10 (15.38%) Splunk
4 9 (13.85%) VMware
5 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.15%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) Arista
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.08%) Wind River
8 1 (1.54%) Alias
8 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.54%) Pegasus