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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 491 518
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +119
Contract jobs citing Istio 35 35 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 0.79% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 54
10th Percentile £401 £360 £481
25th Percentile £461 £458 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £628
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.32% -3.46%
75th Percentile £705 £544 £700
90th Percentile £751 £600 £775
UK median daily rate £590 £497 £615
% change year-on-year +18.83% -19.27% -5.38%

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 4,284 4,456 6,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.66% 13.67% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 3,064 4,552
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 53 164
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.39 £24.18 £25.74
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £77.88 £74.00 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Istio 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +19 17 £625 +13.64% 5
North of England -10 14 £556 +54.51% 1
North East - 9 £550 -
Midlands - 4 £387 - 1
Yorkshire -12 3 £708 +36.15%
North West -16 2 £401 +11.39% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £387 - 1
South East +18 1 £384 -20.33% 1
East of England - 1 £850 - 1
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.43%) Traefik
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) GCP
1 16 (45.71%) GitHub
2 10 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (22.86%) AWS
4 8 (22.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (20.00%) Azure
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.57%) Apigee
8 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.57%) Stackdriver
9 2 (5.71%) Anthos
9 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.71%) IaaS
9 2 (5.71%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (5.71%) Pulumi
9 2 (5.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Calico
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) SSH
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) SSL
4 1 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Big Data
2 3 (8.57%) Delta Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Parquet
3 2 (5.71%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Hasura
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) GitLab
3 5 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) Maven
3 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.57%) Gradle
4 3 (8.57%) Jaeger
4 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 3 (8.57%) MLflow
5 2 (5.71%) Poetry
5 2 (5.71%) PyCharm
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.71%) Spinnaker
5 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.86%) git-flow
6 1 (2.86%) Snyk
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) GCP DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Subject Matter Expert
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Keycloak
2 4 (11.43%) GraphQL
2 4 (11.43%) Node.js
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Avro
3 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (8.57%) Flask
3 3 (8.57%) NumPy
3 3 (8.57%) Pandas
4 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.71%) gRPC
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) YAML
5 1 (2.86%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.86%) ADO
5 1 (2.86%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) JWT
5 1 (2.86%) Loki
5 1 (2.86%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) IVR
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 2 (5.71%) Android
3 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (48.57%) DevOps
4 16 (45.71%) Containerisation
5 13 (37.14%) GitOps
6 11 (31.43%) Microservices
6 11 (31.43%) Secrets Management
7 10 (28.57%) Migration
8 8 (22.86%) Validation
9 6 (17.14%) Agile
9 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
9 6 (17.14%) Observability
9 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (11.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) Python
2 22 (62.86%) Bash
3 10 (28.57%) Groovy
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Go
6 3 (8.57%) Java
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.86%) Bicep
8 1 (2.86%) C#
8 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) etcd
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (68.57%) Terraform
3 15 (42.86%) Argo
4 14 (40.00%) Ansible
5 10 (28.57%) Grafana
6 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (11.43%) Puppet
7 3 (8.57%) Control-M
7 3 (8.57%) Kiali
8 2 (5.71%) linkerd
9 1 (2.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Red Hat
2 7 (20.00%) Google
3 6 (17.14%) Splunk
4 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
4 3 (8.57%) Cloudera
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
4 3 (8.57%) xMatters
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
5 2 (5.71%) VMware
6 1 (2.86%) Clearswift
6 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle
6 1 (2.86%) Tenable
6 1 (2.86%) Wind River