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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 470 492
Rank change year-on-year -108 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Istio 53 34 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.88% 0.79% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 28
10th Percentile £374 £390 £374
25th Percentile £413 £447 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +11.56% -24.15%
75th Percentile £644 £697 £538
90th Percentile £668 £738 £590
UK median daily rate £500 £576 £493
% change year-on-year -13.23% +16.89% -24.15%
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 6,006 4,291 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.54% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,093 2,859 3,231
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.23 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% +56.77% -33.18%
75th Percentile £70.69 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.36% +15.38% -43.48%

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 5 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 5 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 -48 20 £600 -4.00% 32
North of England -60 15 £500 -10.11% 7
North West -47 8 £576 +43.88% 5
South West - 7 £600 - 1
Yorkshire -43 6 £438 -38.21% 2
South East -63 6 £392 +1.95% 3
Midlands -57 3 £477 +23.28% 2
East Midlands -9 2 - - 1
North East -46 1 £426 -23.51%
West Midlands -58 1 £477 +23.28% 1
East of England - 1 £345 - 2
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 (9.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) GCP
2 26 (49.06%) Azure
3 25 (47.17%) AWS
4 15 (28.30%) GitHub
5 14 (26.42%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (26.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (20.75%) Azure AKS
7 11 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (16.98%) Serverless
9 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
9 7 (13.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (11.32%) OpenShift
11 5 (9.43%) CloudFront
11 5 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (7.55%) Azure Functions
12 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) VPN
3 4 (7.55%) Firewall
4 3 (5.66%) DHCP
4 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.77%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.89%) Calico
6 1 (1.89%) ICMP
6 1 (1.89%) Internet
6 1 (1.89%) Network Security
6 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.66%) Redis
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.53%) GitLab
3 10 (18.87%) Git
4 9 (16.98%) SonarQube
5 8 (15.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (13.21%) Cucumber
7 6 (11.32%) JIRA
8 4 (7.55%) Jaeger
9 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
9 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.66%) JUnit
9 3 (5.66%) Postman
9 3 (5.66%) Selenium
10 2 (3.77%) Burp Suite
10 2 (3.77%) Gatling
10 2 (3.77%) Gradle
10 2 (3.77%) LoadRunner
10 2 (3.77%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.77%) Spinnaker
11 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (20.75%) Banking
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (30.19%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) Architect
5 7 (13.21%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) GCP DevOps
9 3 (5.66%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (15.09%) Kafka
3 6 (11.32%) .NET
3 6 (11.32%) REST
4 4 (7.55%) Loki
4 4 (7.55%) OAuth
4 4 (7.55%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.55%) OpenID
4 4 (7.55%) Spring
5 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.66%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (5.66%) Node.js
5 3 (5.66%) OpenAPI
5 3 (5.66%) React
5 3 (5.66%) Swagger
6 2 (3.77%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.77%) gRPC
6 2 (3.77%) Playwright
6 2 (3.77%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.09%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.43%) PKI
4 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (79.25%) CI/CD
2 35 (66.04%) Observability
3 29 (54.72%) DevOps
4 27 (50.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (45.28%) Containerisation
6 22 (41.51%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (33.96%) Microservices
8 16 (30.19%) Load Balancing
9 14 (26.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (24.53%) GitOps
11 12 (22.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
12 11 (20.75%) Secrets Management
13 10 (18.87%) High Availability
13 10 (18.87%) Incident Response
14 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 8 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (15.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Python
2 23 (43.40%) Bash
3 12 (22.64%) Go
4 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.21%) Java
6 5 (9.43%) Bicep
7 3 (5.66%) Groovy
8 2 (3.77%) SQL
9 1 (1.89%) C#
9 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) CCSK
6 2 (3.77%) CISSP
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CISM
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) GDPR
1 4 (7.55%) GRC
1 4 (7.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) NCSC
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) KVM
3 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (88.68%) Kubernetes
2 33 (62.26%) Terraform
3 23 (43.40%) Prometheus
4 20 (37.74%) Grafana
5 11 (20.75%) Argo
6 10 (18.87%) linkerd
7 9 (16.98%) Ansible
8 6 (11.32%) Kustomize
9 3 (5.66%) Puppet
9 3 (5.66%) Rancher
10 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.89%) Kibana
10 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Dynatrace
2 8 (15.09%) Google
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Splunk
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.55%) VMware
5 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.89%) Alias
6 1 (1.89%) Pegasus