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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 463 537
Rank change year-on-year -33 +74 +55
Contract jobs citing Istio 41 53 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.83% 1.21% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 35
10th Percentile £409 £360 £459
25th Percentile £428 £481 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £589 £738 £700
90th Percentile £729 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £650
% change year-on-year - -17.31% -0.76%

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 4,942 4,384 5,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.09% 14.15% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 2,803 3,980
10th Percentile £310 £313 £305
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £612 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 60 162
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.06 £23.80 £23.72
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.08 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -25.10% +75.63%
75th Percentile £66.75 £60.63 £71.42
90th Percentile £81.20 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.32 £27.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +19.69% -44.21% +88.25%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +4 18 £550 -4.35% 7
North of England -43 13 £550 -21.43% 2
North East +2 10 £556 -25.83%
Midlands - 6 £464 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £525 -
South East +1 3 £433 -12.27% 4
Yorkshire -31 2 £425 -42.37%
South West - 2 £538 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £387 - 1
North West -31 1 - - 2
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 (12.20%) Confluence
2 4 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (9.76%) Traefik
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) GitHub
2 18 (43.90%) GCP
3 15 (36.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 14 (34.15%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (31.71%) Azure
6 12 (29.27%) OpenShift
7 10 (24.39%) AWS
8 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
8 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (14.63%) Azure AKS
10 5 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (12.20%) Apigee
11 4 (9.76%) Stackdriver
12 2 (4.88%) Anthos
12 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (4.88%) Azure Storage
12 2 (4.88%) Pulumi
12 2 (4.88%) Slack
13 1 (2.44%) Azure AI
13 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) DNS
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
1 3 (7.32%) SSH
1 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) Calico
2 2 (4.88%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.32%) Big Data
2 3 (7.32%) Delta Lake
2 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.32%) Parquet
3 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 26 (63.41%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) GitLab
3 7 (17.07%) SonarQube
4 5 (12.20%) Git
4 5 (12.20%) JIRA
5 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (9.76%) Spinnaker
6 3 (7.32%) MLflow
7 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.88%) Gradle
7 2 (4.88%) Maven
7 2 (4.88%) Poetry
7 2 (4.88%) PyCharm
7 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.44%) git-flow
8 1 (2.44%) Snyk
General
1 6 (14.63%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
3 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) GCP DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Keycloak
2 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 3 (7.32%) Apache Avro
4 3 (7.32%) Flask
4 3 (7.32%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.32%) Kafka
4 3 (7.32%) NumPy
4 3 (7.32%) Pandas
5 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) Swagger
5 2 (4.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.44%) ADO
6 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.44%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (2.44%) JWT
6 1 (2.44%) Loki
6 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) IVR
3 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) VMS
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) CI/CD
2 27 (65.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (60.98%) DevOps
4 18 (43.90%) Containerisation
5 15 (36.59%) GitOps
6 12 (29.27%) Observability
6 12 (29.27%) Secrets Management
7 11 (26.83%) Migration
8 9 (21.95%) Microservices
8 9 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (19.51%) DevSecOps
9 8 (19.51%) Validation
10 6 (14.63%) Agile
10 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
12 4 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 4 (9.76%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (9.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 32 (78.05%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) Go
4 6 (14.63%) Groovy
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 4 (9.76%) Java
6 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.32%) C#
8 2 (4.88%) Bicep
8 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 15 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (43.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) etcd
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (78.05%) Terraform
3 19 (46.34%) Argo
4 18 (43.90%) Ansible
5 11 (26.83%) Grafana
6 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (12.20%) Puppet
8 4 (9.76%) linkerd
9 1 (2.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Red Hat
2 11 (26.83%) Google
3 4 (9.76%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Clearswift
6 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.44%) Tenable