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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 467 491
Rank change year-on-year -98 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing Istio 61 36 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 0.84% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 26
10th Percentile £395 £394 £364
25th Percentile £413 £433 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £523 £497
Median % change year-on-year -7.70% +5.24% -23.62%
75th Percentile £647 £691 £538
90th Percentile £668 £738 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £497
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.78% -23.62%
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 6,113 4,278 4,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.45% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,153 2,849 3,209
10th Percentile £325 £302 £307
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £691 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 61 68
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.19 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £82.91 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.85% +2.62% -36.21%

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 15 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 15 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 -61 25 £575 -2.13% 53
North of England -67 15 £500 -9.09% 8
North West -45 9 £576 +43.88% 5
South East -60 8 £392 +1.95% 2
South West - 8 £600 -
Yorkshire -41 5 £555 -21.61% 3
Midlands -47 3 £477 +23.28% 5
East Midlands -15 2 - - 4
West Midlands -46 1 £477 +23.28% 1
North East -51 1 £426 -22.64%
East of England - 1 £345 - 3
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 (9.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) GCP
2 28 (45.90%) AWS
2 28 (45.90%) Azure
3 16 (26.23%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (22.95%) GitHub
4 14 (22.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 12 (19.67%) Azure AKS
5 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (16.39%) Serverless
7 9 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
8 7 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (9.84%) OpenShift
10 5 (8.20%) CloudFront
10 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 8 (13.11%) VPN
3 6 (9.84%) Firewall
4 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.92%) DHCP
6 2 (3.28%) BGP
6 2 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.28%) MPLS
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.28%) WAN
7 1 (1.64%) Calico
7 1 (1.64%) ICMP
7 1 (1.64%) Internet
7 1 (1.64%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Redis
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) GitLab
3 13 (21.31%) Git
4 9 (14.75%) SonarQube
5 8 (13.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (11.48%) Cucumber
6 7 (11.48%) JIRA
7 4 (6.56%) Jaeger
8 3 (4.92%) Artifactory
8 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.92%) JUnit
8 3 (4.92%) Postman
8 3 (4.92%) Selenium
9 2 (3.28%) Burp Suite
9 2 (3.28%) Gatling
9 2 (3.28%) Gradle
9 2 (3.28%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.28%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 12 (19.67%) Banking
2 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.48%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (27.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) Senior
4 10 (16.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (14.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Security Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Site Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (14.75%) Kafka
3 6 (9.84%) .NET
3 6 (9.84%) OpenID
4 5 (8.20%) OAuth
4 5 (8.20%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.56%) Loki
5 4 (6.56%) React
5 4 (6.56%) REST
5 4 (6.56%) Spring
6 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.92%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (4.92%) Node.js
7 2 (3.28%) ADO
7 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.28%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.28%) gRPC
7 2 (3.28%) Quarkus
7 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (47.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (13.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (11.48%) PKI
5 4 (6.56%) Mobile App
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.56%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.51%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
3 2 (3.28%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 36 (59.02%) Observability
3 30 (49.18%) DevOps
4 29 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (42.62%) Containerisation
6 25 (40.98%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (32.79%) Microservices
8 17 (27.87%) Load Balancing
9 15 (24.59%) GitOps
10 14 (22.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (21.31%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (19.67%) DevSecOps
12 12 (19.67%) Event-Driven
12 12 (19.67%) Secrets Management
13 11 (18.03%) High Availability
13 11 (18.03%) Incident Response
13 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (16.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Python
2 25 (40.98%) Bash
3 13 (21.31%) Go
4 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.48%) Java
6 5 (8.20%) Bicep
7 2 (3.28%) SQL
8 1 (1.64%) C#
8 1 (1.64%) Groovy
8 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) AWS Certification
5 6 (9.84%) CISSP
6 5 (8.20%) CISM
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.56%) GSEC
7 4 (6.56%) OSCP
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.28%) CCSK
9 2 (3.28%) Degree
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.64%) SANS
10 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) GRC
1 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.92%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) NCSC
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.64%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (39.34%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) KVM
3 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (88.52%) Kubernetes
2 35 (57.38%) Terraform
3 24 (39.34%) Prometheus
4 21 (34.43%) Grafana
5 14 (22.95%) linkerd
6 12 (19.67%) Argo
7 9 (14.75%) Ansible
8 7 (11.48%) Kustomize
9 3 (4.92%) Puppet
9 3 (4.92%) Rancher
10 2 (3.28%) Cilium
11 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.64%) Kibana
11 1 (1.64%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Dynatrace
2 6 (9.84%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Splunk
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Alias
6 1 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) F5
6 1 (1.64%) Intel
6 1 (1.64%) Pegasus