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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 470 515
Rank change year-on-year -100 +45 +2
Contract jobs citing Istio 50 29 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 0.69% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 30
10th Percentile £353 £384 £385
25th Percentile £397 £424 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £563 £493
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +14.10% -24.15%
75th Percentile £611 £705 £538
90th Percentile £668 £738 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £595 £493
% change year-on-year -15.97% +20.69% -24.15%

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 5,983 4,195 4,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.42% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,784 3,325
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £606 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.60% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £32.06 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.30 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -76 19 £575 -11.54% 5
North of England -71 14 £400 -28.89% 1
North West -44 8 £576 +43.88% 1
South West - 7 £600 -
South East -60 6 £374 -21.35% 2
Yorkshire -41 5 £350 -50.56%
Midlands -58 3 £477 +23.28% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - - 1
North East -40 1 £426 -24.36%
West Midlands -60 1 £477 +23.28%
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Cloudability
1 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) GCP
2 26 (52.00%) Azure
3 24 (48.00%) AWS
4 19 (38.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 18 (36.00%) GitHub
6 15 (30.00%) Azure AKS
7 14 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (26.00%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (18.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (12.00%) Apigee
12 6 (12.00%) Azure API Management
12 6 (12.00%) Serverless
13 4 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
13 4 (8.00%) Azure Functions
13 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
13 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 2 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) Calico
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) ICMP
4 1 (2.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (28.00%) GitLab
3 9 (18.00%) Git
3 9 (18.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (14.00%) Cucumber
6 5 (10.00%) JIRA
7 4 (8.00%) Jaeger
8 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (6.00%) JUnit
8 3 (6.00%) Postman
8 3 (6.00%) Selenium
9 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.00%) Burp Suite
9 2 (4.00%) Gatling
9 2 (4.00%) Gradle
9 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
9 2 (4.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (22.00%) Banking
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Senior
4 9 (18.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Architect
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Network Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (16.00%) Kafka
3 6 (12.00%) OAuth
3 6 (12.00%) OAuth2
3 6 (12.00%) REST
4 5 (10.00%) .NET
4 5 (10.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) Loki
5 4 (8.00%) Node.js
5 4 (8.00%) OpenAPI
5 4 (8.00%) OpenID
5 4 (8.00%) React
5 4 (8.00%) Swagger
6 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.00%) ADO
7 2 (4.00%) LangChain
7 2 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (4.00%) Playwright
7 2 (4.00%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.00%) PKI
6 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.00%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.00%) EMV
7 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (64.00%) Observability
3 30 (60.00%) DevOps
4 26 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 20 (40.00%) Microservices
6 20 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (24.00%) GitOps
9 11 (22.00%) Load Balancing
10 10 (20.00%) High Availability
11 9 (18.00%) Cloud Security
11 9 (18.00%) Event-Driven
11 9 (18.00%) Incident Response
11 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (16.00%) API Management
12 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 21 (42.00%) Bash
3 13 (26.00%) Go
4 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (14.00%) Java
6 5 (10.00%) Bicep
7 4 (8.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) SQL
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.00%) CCSK
5 2 (4.00%) CISSP
6 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) CCSP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CISM
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (8.00%) GRC
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) NCSC
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 8583
4 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) KVM
3 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (88.00%) Kubernetes
2 31 (62.00%) Terraform
3 24 (48.00%) Prometheus
4 20 (40.00%) Grafana
5 11 (22.00%) linkerd
6 10 (20.00%) Argo
7 7 (14.00%) Ansible
8 6 (12.00%) Kustomize
9 3 (6.00%) Puppet
9 3 (6.00%) Rancher
10 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
10 1 (2.00%) Kibana
10 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (22.00%) Google
2 7 (14.00%) Splunk
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Alias
5 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.00%) Pegasus