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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 453 501
Rank change year-on-year -35 +48 +88
Contract jobs citing Istio 54 48 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 1.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 25
10th Percentile £416 £360 £435
25th Percentile £428 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £670 £738 £700
90th Percentile £796 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -6.52% -9.80% -4.42%

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 4,993 4,078 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.75% 14.51% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,644 3,552
10th Percentile £310 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -8.05%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 152
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £16.59
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +27.89%
75th Percentile £66.19 £61.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.24% -46.21% +31.94%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -19 26 £660 +5.60% 10
North of England -55 14 £550 -21.43% 9
North East +1 10 £556 -25.83% 1
South East -5 7 £433 -16.02% 5
Midlands - 6 £464 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £525 -
North West -31 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -56 2 £425 -41.38% 2
South West - 2 £538 -
West Midlands - 2 £387 - 1
East of England - 1 £850 - 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 (9.26%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) Traefik
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (61.11%) GitHub
2 24 (44.44%) GCP
2 24 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 21 (38.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 18 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 17 (31.48%) Azure
6 14 (25.93%) AWS
7 9 (16.67%) Stackdriver
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
8 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (12.96%) Google Gemini
10 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 5 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (9.26%) Apigee
11 5 (9.26%) Cloud Run
12 3 (5.56%) Azure Storage
13 2 (3.70%) Anthos
13 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (3.70%) Pulumi
13 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Calico
2 3 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) SSH
2 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) VSAN
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 8 (14.81%) Redis
4 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.56%) Big Data
5 3 (5.56%) Delta Lake
5 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.56%) Parquet
6 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.85%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 33 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 20 (37.04%) GitLab
3 7 (12.96%) SonarQube
4 6 (11.11%) Git
5 5 (9.26%) JIRA
5 5 (9.26%) Spinnaker
6 4 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (5.56%) MLflow
8 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.70%) Poetry
8 2 (3.70%) PyCharm
8 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.85%) Gradle
9 1 (1.85%) Maven
9 1 (1.85%) Snyk
General
1 6 (11.11%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Retail
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) GCP Engineer
2 14 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Senior
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Architect
7 4 (7.41%) GCP DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) Keycloak
2 10 (18.52%) Node.js
3 7 (12.96%) Kafka
4 6 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (11.11%) React
5 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
5 5 (9.26%) LangChain
5 5 (9.26%) Spring
5 5 (9.26%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.56%) Apache Avro
6 3 (5.56%) Flask
6 3 (5.56%) NumPy
6 3 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.56%) Pandas
6 3 (5.56%) REST
6 3 (5.56%) Swagger
7 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.70%) YAML
8 1 (1.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) IVR
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) VMS
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 37 (68.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (66.67%) DevOps
4 27 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 24 (44.44%) GitOps
6 21 (38.89%) Observability
7 15 (27.78%) DevSecOps
7 15 (27.78%) Microservices
8 13 (24.07%) Migration
8 13 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (20.37%) Secrets Management
10 9 (16.67%) Generative AI
11 8 (14.81%) AI
11 8 (14.81%) Validation
12 7 (12.96%) Open Source
13 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 5 (9.26%) Front End Development
14 5 (9.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 40 (74.07%) Python
2 26 (48.15%) Bash
3 7 (12.96%) Go
4 6 (11.11%) Groovy
5 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.26%) SQL
6 4 (7.41%) Java
7 3 (5.56%) Bicep
7 3 (5.56%) C#
8 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) MCP
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NCSC
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.70%) vSphere
4 1 (1.85%) etcd
Systems Management
1 54 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 41 (75.93%) Terraform
3 27 (50.00%) Argo
4 21 (38.89%) Ansible
5 15 (27.78%) Grafana
6 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
7 8 (14.81%) linkerd
8 4 (7.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Red Hat
2 16 (29.63%) Google
3 9 (16.67%) VMware
4 7 (12.96%) Splunk
5 6 (11.11%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.56%) Cloudera
7 2 (3.70%) Arista
7 2 (3.70%) Cisco
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle
7 2 (3.70%) Wind River
8 1 (1.85%) Clearswift
8 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.85%) Tenable