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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 462 495
Rank change year-on-year -58 +33 +25
Contract jobs citing Istio 65 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 0.66% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 22 22
10th Percentile £359 £453 £343
25th Percentile £413 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £663 £484
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +37.02% -25.62%
75th Percentile £660 £738 £530
90th Percentile £756 - £601
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £489
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.81% -24.77%

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 5,480 3,798 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.52% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,614 3,217
10th Percentile £319 £311 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.10% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 38 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.63 £21.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.75 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +103.60% +7.70% -50.75%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.36 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.42 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -45 24 £655 -4.73% 5
North of England -65 20 £425 -27.92% 3
South East -51 11 £402 -29.10% 3
Yorkshire -53 10 £375 -47.11%
North West -35 9 £651 +37.05% 3
South West - 5 £538 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
North East - 1 £426 -
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 4 (6.15%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.54%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.92%) GCP
2 35 (53.85%) GitHub
3 34 (52.31%) Azure
4 28 (43.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 27 (41.54%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (36.92%) AWS
7 20 (30.77%) Azure AKS
8 15 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (15.38%) Google Gemini
10 9 (13.85%) OpenShift
10 9 (13.85%) Stackdriver
11 8 (12.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (12.31%) Apigee
12 6 (9.23%) Azure API Management
12 6 (9.23%) Cloud Run
13 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (7.69%) Serverless
14 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
14 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Network Security
2 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) Firewall
3 2 (3.08%) Calico
3 2 (3.08%) VPN
3 2 (3.08%) VSAN
4 1 (1.54%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) ICMP
4 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) Redis
2 9 (13.85%) BigQuery
3 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (52.31%) Jenkins
2 19 (29.23%) GitLab
3 11 (16.92%) Git
4 8 (12.31%) SonarQube
5 6 (9.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.15%) Jaeger
6 4 (6.15%) JIRA
6 4 (6.15%) Spinnaker
7 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.08%) JUnit
8 2 (3.08%) Postman
8 2 (3.08%) Selenium
9 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.54%) Gatling
9 1 (1.54%) Gradle
9 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (12.31%) Banking
2 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Retail
3 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) GCP Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Senior
3 18 (27.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (26.15%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (24.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (15.38%) Architect
8 7 (10.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) GCP DevOps
11 4 (6.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) Senior Architect
11 4 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.31%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (16.92%) Node.js
3 10 (15.38%) Kafka
4 8 (12.31%) React
4 8 (12.31%) REST
4 8 (12.31%) Spring
5 7 (10.77%) LangChain
5 7 (10.77%) OpenAPI
5 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.77%) Swagger
6 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.23%) OAuth
6 6 (9.23%) OAuth2
7 5 (7.69%) .NET
7 5 (7.69%) Keycloak
8 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (6.15%) Loki
8 4 (6.15%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (6.15%) OpenID
9 3 (4.62%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.15%) Mobile App
5 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.62%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.08%) PKI
7 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.54%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.54%) EMV
8 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
3 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (93.85%) CI/CD
2 49 (75.38%) DevOps
3 42 (64.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (56.92%) Observability
5 34 (52.31%) Containerisation
6 29 (44.62%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (36.92%) Microservices
8 20 (30.77%) GitOps
9 18 (27.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (20.00%) DevSecOps
11 11 (16.92%) API Management
12 10 (15.38%) AI
12 10 (15.38%) Generative AI
12 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
12 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (15.38%) Open Source
12 10 (15.38%) SDLC
13 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (12.31%) Load Balancing
13 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) Python
2 25 (38.46%) Bash
3 12 (18.46%) Go
3 12 (18.46%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.31%) Bicep
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 4 (6.15%) Groovy
7 2 (3.08%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) SQL
8 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.54%) CCSK
7 1 (1.54%) CISSP
7 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.54%) Degree
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.69%) NCSC
3 4 (6.15%) GDPR
3 4 (6.15%) GRC
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (47.69%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 60 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 46 (70.77%) Terraform
3 28 (43.08%) Prometheus
4 22 (33.85%) Grafana
5 16 (24.62%) Argo
6 15 (23.08%) linkerd
7 11 (16.92%) Ansible
8 5 (7.69%) Kustomize
9 4 (6.15%) Puppet
10 3 (4.62%) Rancher
11 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Google
2 13 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 10 (15.38%) Splunk
4 8 (12.31%) VMware
5 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.62%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) Arista
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.08%) Wind River
8 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.54%) Pegasus