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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 472 495
Rank change year-on-year -93 +23 +16
Contract jobs citing Istio 60 35 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.093%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 0.92% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 21
10th Percentile £394 £392 £458
25th Percentile £413 £428 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -3.88% -20.77%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £538
90th Percentile £668 £722 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -21.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 5,019 3,817 3,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.99% 13.85% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,534 2,803
10th Percentile £310 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £607 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £703
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 60 66
10th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% +38.46% -25.78%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £63.38
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.96 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +111.60% -18.55% -34.52%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -71 27 £538 -2.27% 5
North of England -77 15 £500 -9.09% 3
North West -37 9 £576 +43.88% 1
South West - 8 £600 -
South East -59 7 £390 +1.56% 3
Yorkshire -39 5 £555 -21.61% 2
Midlands -50 3 £477 +23.28%
East Midlands -18 2 - -
North East -44 1 £426 -22.64%
West Midlands -52 1 £477 +23.28%
East of England - 1 £345 -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) GCP
2 27 (45.00%) AWS
2 27 (45.00%) Azure
3 18 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 13 (21.67%) GitHub
6 12 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (16.67%) Serverless
9 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
10 7 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
12 5 (8.33%) CloudFront
13 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (6.67%) Azure API Management
13 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
13 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) DNS
2 9 (15.00%) VPN
3 7 (11.67%) Firewall
4 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.00%) BGP
5 3 (5.00%) MPLS
6 2 (3.33%) DHCP
6 2 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.33%) tcpdump
6 2 (3.33%) WAN
7 1 (1.67%) Calico
7 1 (1.67%) Internet
7 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.00%) Redis
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.33%) Git
2 14 (23.33%) GitLab
3 8 (13.33%) SonarQube
3 8 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
4 7 (11.67%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.00%) Jaeger
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Postman
5 3 (5.00%) Selenium
6 2 (3.33%) Burp Suite
6 2 (3.33%) Gatling
6 2 (3.33%) Gradle
6 2 (3.33%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.33%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 13 (21.67%) Banking
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (53.33%) Terraform
2 13 (21.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (15.00%) Kafka
4 6 (10.00%) OpenID
4 6 (10.00%) Spring
5 5 (8.33%) .NET
5 5 (8.33%) OAuth
5 5 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 5 (8.33%) React
6 4 (6.67%) REST
6 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.00%) Loki
7 3 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (5.00%) Node.js
7 3 (5.00%) RESTful
8 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
8 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.33%) gRPC
8 2 (3.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (56.67%) Observability
3 28 (46.67%) DevOps
4 27 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 23 (38.33%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (33.33%) Microservices
8 18 (30.00%) Load Balancing
9 14 (23.33%) GitOps
9 14 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (21.67%) DevSecOps
10 13 (21.67%) Event-Driven
10 13 (21.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (20.00%) Secrets Management
12 11 (18.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (18.33%) High Availability
12 11 (18.33%) Incident Response
13 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Python
2 23 (38.33%) Bash
3 10 (16.67%) Go
4 9 (15.00%) Java
4 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.33%) Bicep
6 4 (6.67%) SQL
7 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) Groovy
8 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (10.00%) CISSP
6 5 (8.33%) CISM
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.67%) GSEC
7 4 (6.67%) OSCP
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.33%) CCSK
9 2 (3.33%) Degree
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.67%) SANS
10 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) GDPR
1 3 (5.00%) GRC
1 3 (5.00%) NIST
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) NCSC
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 23 (38.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) KVM
3 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.00%) Prometheus
3 20 (33.33%) Grafana
4 14 (23.33%) linkerd
5 12 (20.00%) Argo
6 9 (15.00%) Ansible
7 7 (11.67%) Kustomize
8 3 (5.00%) Cilium
8 3 (5.00%) Puppet
9 2 (3.33%) Rancher
10 1 (1.67%) Kibana
10 1 (1.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Dynatrace
2 6 (10.00%) Google
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 4 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Alias
6 1 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) Intel
6 1 (1.67%) Pegasus