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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 442 508
Rank change year-on-year -70 +66 +9
Contract jobs citing Istio 62 46 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.13% 1.17% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 23
10th Percentile £363 £449 £348
25th Percentile £416 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +42.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £668 £738 £622
90th Percentile £775 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -22.50% +26.83% -23.16%

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 5,473 3,931 4,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.04% 15.38% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,771 2,594 3,311
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 41 139
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -24.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £85.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -23.27%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -41 28 £668 -2.91% 4
North of England -59 17 £463 -36.21% 4
Yorkshire -54 11 £375 -48.28% 2
South East -36 10 £433 -23.72% 2
North West -24 5 £651 +37.05% 2
South West - 3 £538 -
East Midlands - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
North East -14 1 £600 -20.00%
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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Traefik
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (3.23%) nginx
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (67.74%) GitHub
2 36 (58.06%) GCP
3 33 (53.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 32 (51.61%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (46.77%) Azure
6 22 (35.48%) AWS
7 16 (25.81%) Azure AKS
8 10 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (16.13%) OpenShift
9 9 (14.52%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (14.52%) Apigee
9 9 (14.52%) Stackdriver
10 8 (12.90%) Google Gemini
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (9.68%) Cloud Run
12 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
12 5 (8.06%) Azure API Management
13 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (6.45%) Serverless
14 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Calico
2 3 (4.84%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 3 (4.84%) VPN
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) VSAN
4 1 (1.61%) DHCP
4 1 (1.61%) ICMP
4 1 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) BigQuery
2 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.52%) Redis
3 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.61%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 34 (54.84%) Jenkins
2 20 (32.26%) GitLab
3 5 (8.06%) JIRA
3 5 (8.06%) Spinnaker
4 4 (6.45%) Git
5 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Jaeger
6 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.68%) Banking
2 6 (9.68%) Finance
2 6 (9.68%) Retail
3 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) GCP Engineer
2 20 (32.26%) Senior
3 17 (27.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (20.97%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (17.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (14.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (12.90%) Architect
9 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (8.06%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.45%) Lead
12 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (17.74%) Node.js
3 9 (14.52%) Kafka
4 7 (11.29%) React
4 7 (11.29%) REST
5 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
5 6 (9.68%) Keycloak
5 6 (9.68%) LangChain
5 6 (9.68%) OpenAPI
5 6 (9.68%) Spring
5 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.68%) Swagger
6 5 (8.06%) OAuth
6 5 (8.06%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.84%) .NET
7 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.84%) Loki
7 3 (4.84%) OpenID
8 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (35.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.13%) Public Cloud
3 8 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) EMV
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) VMS
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (93.55%) CI/CD
2 47 (75.81%) DevOps
3 44 (70.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (56.45%) Observability
5 33 (53.23%) Containerisation
6 25 (40.32%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (35.48%) GitOps
8 17 (27.42%) DevSecOps
8 17 (27.42%) Microservices
9 14 (22.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (16.13%) API Management
11 10 (16.13%) Generative AI
12 9 (14.52%) AI
13 8 (12.90%) Agile
13 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (12.90%) Open Source
13 8 (12.90%) SDLC
13 8 (12.90%) Thought Leadership
14 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (70.97%) Python
2 24 (38.71%) Bash
3 13 (20.97%) Go
4 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.90%) Bicep
6 6 (9.68%) Groovy
7 5 (8.06%) Java
8 3 (4.84%) C#
8 3 (4.84%) SQL
9 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) Degree
7 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) NCSC
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 28 (45.16%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.23%) vSphere
4 1 (1.61%) etcd
Systems Management
1 59 (95.16%) Kubernetes
2 48 (77.42%) Terraform
3 23 (37.10%) Prometheus
4 21 (33.87%) Grafana
5 18 (29.03%) Argo
6 14 (22.58%) linkerd
7 9 (14.52%) Ansible
8 3 (4.84%) Kustomize
9 2 (3.23%) Puppet
9 2 (3.23%) Rancher
10 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Google
2 10 (16.13%) Dynatrace
2 10 (16.13%) Splunk
3 9 (14.52%) Red Hat
3 9 (14.52%) VMware
4 2 (3.23%) Arista
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) Wind River
5 1 (1.61%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle