Istio Contracts in England

Istio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Istio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Istio over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 509 526
Rank change year-on-year +34 +17 +77
Contract jobs citing Istio 23 47 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.56% 1.00% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 87
10th Percentile £402 £380 £500
25th Percentile £475 £458 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £493 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.01% -24.15% +4.63%
75th Percentile £710 £538 £688
90th Percentile £738 £610 £743
UK median daily rate £600 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +21.70% -24.15% +4.00%

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 4,096 4,696 7,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.69% 12.56% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,382 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 96 161
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio in England.

Daily rate trend for Istio in England

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +49 13 £650 +18.18% 49
North of England +11 9 £519 -0.24% 14
North West +10 5 £401 -18.66% 5
Yorkshire +5 3 £708 +36.15% 6
South East +16 1 £567 +17.63% 2
North East - 1 £563 - 3
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 (17.39%) WebSphere
1 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Camunda
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) GCP
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) AWS
4 7 (30.43%) GitHub
5 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
6 4 (17.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (17.39%) IBM Cloud
6 4 (17.39%) Kong
6 4 (17.39%) npm
7 2 (8.70%) Apigee
7 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.70%) IaaS
7 2 (8.70%) Stackdriver
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Calico
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Hazelcast
1 5 (21.74%) Redis
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) GIS
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (39.13%) Git
2 9 (39.13%) Maven
3 8 (34.78%) GitLab
4 3 (13.04%) Jaeger
5 2 (8.70%) Gradle
6 1 (4.35%) git-flow
6 1 (4.35%) JIRA
6 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (39.13%) Banking
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (13.04%) J2EE
3 3 (13.04%) Keycloak
4 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.70%) gRPC
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.70%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) ADO
5 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) IVR
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Android
2 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
3 3 (13.04%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) Microservices
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) Batch Management
8 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.04%) GitOps
8 3 (13.04%) High Availability
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Load Balancing
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (13.04%) RBAC
9 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
9 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Bash
3 9 (39.13%) Java
4 5 (21.74%) Groovy
5 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
6 3 (13.04%) Perl
6 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Bicep
7 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (69.57%) Terraform
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
4 6 (26.09%) Control-M
5 5 (21.74%) Puppet
6 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
7 3 (13.04%) Argo
7 3 (13.04%) Kiali
7 3 (13.04%) Progress Chef
7 3 (13.04%) Rundeck
8 1 (4.35%) Kustomize
8 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
1 5 (21.74%) Splunk
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
3 3 (13.04%) xMatters
4 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.35%) Pega
5 1 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Wind River