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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 471 509
Rank change year-on-year -92 +38 +17
Contract jobs citing Istio 51 23 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.088% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.56% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 29
10th Percentile £353 £402 £380
25th Percentile £397 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £567 £493
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +15.01% -24.15%
75th Percentile £611 £710 £538
90th Percentile £668 £738 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £493
% change year-on-year -16.67% +21.70% -24.15%

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 5,904 4,095 4,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.69% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,061 2,727 3,382
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £515
% change year-on-year +0.91% -0.97% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £32.77 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.60% +0.83% -43.48%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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
North of England -62 18 £426 -17.98% 3
London -64 17 £615 -5.38% 8
Yorkshire -46 9 £375 -47.03%
North West -39 8 £576 +43.52% 3
South East -55 6 £374 -34.04% 4
South West - 6 £600 - 1
Midlands - 3 £477 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
North East -37 1 £426 -24.36%
West Midlands - 1 £477 -
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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) GCP
2 28 (54.90%) Azure
3 24 (47.06%) AWS
4 21 (41.18%) GitHub
4 21 (41.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 17 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 16 (31.37%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (25.49%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (11.76%) Apigee
11 6 (11.76%) Azure API Management
11 6 (11.76%) Serverless
12 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
12 4 (7.84%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
12 4 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) Calico
4 1 (1.96%) DHCP
4 1 (1.96%) ICMP
4 1 (1.96%) Internet
4 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Redis
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (49.02%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.53%) GitLab
3 9 (17.65%) Git
3 9 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 8 (15.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.84%) Jaeger
7 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (5.88%) JIRA
7 3 (5.88%) JUnit
7 3 (5.88%) Postman
7 3 (5.88%) Selenium
8 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.92%) Burp Suite
8 2 (3.92%) Gatling
8 2 (3.92%) Gradle
8 2 (3.92%) LoadRunner
8 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.92%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (21.57%) Banking
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Senior
3 11 (21.57%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (15.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (13.73%) Architect
7 7 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (7.84%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (13.73%) Kafka
3 6 (11.76%) OAuth
3 6 (11.76%) OAuth2
4 5 (9.80%) .NET
4 5 (9.80%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) Loki
5 4 (7.84%) Node.js
5 4 (7.84%) OpenAPI
5 4 (7.84%) OpenID
5 4 (7.84%) React
5 4 (7.84%) Spring
5 4 (7.84%) Swagger
6 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.92%) ADO
7 2 (3.92%) LangChain
7 2 (3.92%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (3.92%) Playwright
7 2 (3.92%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 20 (39.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.88%) PKI
7 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.96%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.96%) EMV
8 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 33 (64.71%) DevOps
3 30 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (56.86%) Observability
5 25 (49.02%) Containerisation
6 21 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (37.25%) Microservices
8 15 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (23.53%) GitOps
10 10 (19.61%) High Availability
10 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (17.65%) Cloud Security
11 9 (17.65%) Incident Response
11 9 (17.65%) Load Balancing
12 8 (15.69%) API Management
12 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (15.69%) Event-Driven
13 7 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (13.73%) Root Cause Analysis
14 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 21 (41.18%) Bash
3 13 (25.49%) Go
4 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.76%) Java
6 5 (9.80%) Bicep
7 4 (7.84%) Groovy
8 1 (1.96%) SQL
8 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.92%) CCSK
5 2 (3.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CISM
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) GRC
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) NCSC
3 2 (3.92%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 24 (47.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) KVM
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (90.20%) Kubernetes
2 35 (68.63%) Terraform
3 24 (47.06%) Prometheus
4 20 (39.22%) Grafana
5 11 (21.57%) linkerd
6 10 (19.61%) Argo
7 7 (13.73%) Ansible
8 6 (11.76%) Kustomize
9 3 (5.88%) Puppet
9 3 (5.88%) Rancher
10 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.96%) Kibana
10 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Google
2 10 (19.61%) Dynatrace
3 6 (11.76%) Splunk
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Alias
6 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.96%) Pegasus