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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 476 490
Rank change year-on-year -108 +14 +47
Contract jobs citing Istio 55 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 0.91% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 27
10th Percentile £404 £401 £360
25th Percentile £413 £461 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £591 £705 £544
90th Percentile £659 £751 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £497
% change year-on-year -15.25% +18.83% -20.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.25 - -
90th Percentile £70.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 5,088 3,866 3,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 13.90% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 2,558 2,722
10th Percentile £308 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £602 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 66 52
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £44.86 £21.39 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.00 £39.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.79% -0.64% -25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.49 £63.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £79.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £29.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year +119.62% -23.53% -30.45%

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 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in England

Istio
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio

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 12 September 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 -67 25 £520 -16.80% 37
North of England -73 13 £500 -10.11% 2
North West -40 8 £450 +12.22% 1
South West - 8 £600 - 1
South East -53 6 £313 -18.49% 3
Yorkshire -43 4 £555 -21.61% 1
Midlands -51 3 £477 +23.28%
East Midlands -17 2 - -
East of England -21 1 £345 -59.41% 3
West Midlands -50 1 £477 +23.28%
North East -53 1 £426 -22.64%
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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Camunda
2 2 (3.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) GCP
2 21 (38.18%) AWS
3 18 (32.73%) Azure
4 16 (29.09%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (25.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (14.55%) GitHub
7 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
7 7 (12.73%) Azure AKS
8 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
8 6 (10.91%) Serverless
9 5 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (9.09%) CloudFront
9 5 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) DNS
2 11 (20.00%) VPN
3 8 (14.55%) Firewall
4 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.27%) BGP
5 4 (7.27%) MPLS
6 3 (5.45%) DHCP
6 3 (5.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (5.45%) WAN
7 2 (3.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (3.64%) Network Security
7 2 (3.64%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.82%) Calico
8 1 (1.82%) Internet
8 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.64%) Redis
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) Metadata
7 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Git
2 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
3 12 (21.82%) GitLab
4 9 (16.36%) SonarQube
5 8 (14.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (12.73%) Cucumber
6 7 (12.73%) JIRA
7 4 (7.27%) JUnit
8 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.45%) Postman
8 3 (5.45%) Selenium
9 2 (3.64%) Burp Suite
9 2 (3.64%) Gatling
9 2 (3.64%) Gradle
9 2 (3.64%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.64%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 12 (21.82%) Banking
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Network Engineer
6 8 (14.55%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (14.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Architect
7 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Security Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Developer
9 4 (7.27%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (52.73%) Terraform
2 11 (20.00%) Kafka
3 7 (12.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (12.73%) Spring
4 5 (9.09%) React
4 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.27%) REST
6 3 (5.45%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.45%) OpenID
6 3 (5.45%) RESTful
7 2 (3.64%) .NET
7 2 (3.64%) ADO
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.64%) Node.js
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.64%) Playwright
7 2 (3.64%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 30 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (14.55%) PKI
3 5 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (34.55%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Windows
3 3 (5.45%) Unix
3 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 29 (52.73%) Observability
3 24 (43.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (40.00%) DevOps
5 20 (36.36%) Microservices
5 20 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (34.55%) Containerisation
6 19 (34.55%) Load Balancing
7 14 (25.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (23.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (21.82%) DevSecOps
9 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (20.00%) High Availability
10 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (20.00%) Secrets Management
11 10 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (18.18%) Event-Driven
11 10 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (18.18%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) Python
2 20 (36.36%) Bash
3 9 (16.36%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) Go
4 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.27%) SQL
6 3 (5.45%) Bicep
7 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.82%) C#
8 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.82%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (12.73%) CISSP
5 6 (10.91%) CISM
6 5 (9.09%) GSEC
6 5 (9.09%) OSCP
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.45%) Degree
8 3 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.64%) CCSK
9 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) NCSC
1 3 (5.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) SLA
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.82%) KVM
3 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (92.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 13 (23.64%) Grafana
4 10 (18.18%) Ansible
4 10 (18.18%) Argo
4 10 (18.18%) linkerd
5 4 (7.27%) Cilium
5 4 (7.27%) Kustomize
6 3 (5.45%) Puppet
7 2 (3.64%) Rancher
8 1 (1.82%) Consul
8 1 (1.82%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.82%) Kibana
8 1 (1.82%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (1.82%) Packer
8 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 5 (9.09%) Google
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle
2 5 (9.09%) VMware
3 4 (7.27%) Splunk
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) Alias
5 1 (1.82%) Apple
5 1 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) ESET
5 1 (1.82%) F5
5 1 (1.82%) Intel
5 1 (1.82%) Okta
5 1 (1.82%) Pegasus