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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 480 502
Rank change year-on-year -87 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing Istio 59 33 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.17% 0.86% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 26
10th Percentile £399 £388 £389
25th Percentile £413 £419 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £497
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.78% -23.62%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £538
90th Percentile £668 £727 £579
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £493
% change year-on-year -10.11% +12.83% -24.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.25 - -
90th Percentile £70.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 5,028 3,831 3,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.99% 13.80% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,537 2,776
10th Percentile £307 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.57% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 60 59
10th Percentile £21.43 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.72 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.23 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%

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 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in England

Istio
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio

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 31 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 -54 29 £529 -10.00% 34
North of England -73 12 £500 -9.09% 3
South West - 8 £600 - 3
North West -45 7 £450 +12.50% 1
South East -61 7 £353 -8.07% 3
Yorkshire -43 4 £555 -21.61% 2
Midlands -50 3 £477 +23.28% 1
East Midlands -13 2 - -
East of England -16 1 £345 -59.41% 2
North East -44 1 £426 -22.64%
West Midlands -45 1 £477 +23.28% 1
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 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Camunda
3 1 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) GCP
2 23 (38.98%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (23.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 11 (18.64%) GitHub
6 9 (15.25%) Azure AKS
6 9 (15.25%) Serverless
7 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.86%) Amazon S3
8 7 (11.86%) OpenShift
9 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.47%) CloudFront
11 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (5.08%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) DNS
1 11 (18.64%) VPN
2 8 (13.56%) Firewall
3 5 (8.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.78%) BGP
4 4 (6.78%) MPLS
5 3 (5.08%) DHCP
5 3 (5.08%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (5.08%) WAN
6 2 (3.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.39%) Network Security
6 2 (3.39%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.69%) Calico
7 1 (1.69%) Internet
7 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Redis
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) Metadata
6 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 15 (25.42%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.34%) GitLab
4 9 (15.25%) SonarQube
5 8 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (11.86%) Cucumber
6 7 (11.86%) JIRA
7 4 (6.78%) JUnit
8 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.08%) Postman
8 3 (5.08%) Selenium
9 2 (3.39%) Burp Suite
9 2 (3.39%) Gatling
9 2 (3.39%) Gradle
9 2 (3.39%) Jaeger
9 2 (3.39%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.39%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 12 (20.34%) Banking
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Senior
4 11 (18.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Network Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Architect
6 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Security Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (52.54%) Terraform
2 10 (16.95%) Kafka
2 10 (16.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (11.86%) Spring
4 5 (8.47%) OpenID
4 5 (8.47%) React
4 5 (8.47%) REST
4 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.78%) .NET
5 4 (6.78%) OAuth
5 4 (6.78%) OAuth2
6 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.08%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.08%) Node.js
6 3 (5.08%) RESTful
7 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.39%) gRPC
7 2 (3.39%) Loki
7 2 (3.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (55.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) PKI
3 6 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.20%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (62.71%) CI/CD
2 32 (54.24%) Observability
3 26 (44.07%) DevOps
3 26 (44.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (38.98%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (37.29%) Containerisation
6 21 (35.59%) Microservices
7 19 (32.20%) Load Balancing
8 14 (23.73%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (23.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (20.34%) DevSecOps
9 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (18.64%) Event-Driven
10 11 (18.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (18.64%) High Availability
10 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (16.95%) GitOps
11 10 (16.95%) Incident Response
11 10 (16.95%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) Bash
3 10 (16.95%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) Go
5 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.47%) SQL
7 4 (6.78%) Bicep
8 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) C#
9 1 (1.69%) Groovy
9 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.34%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) CISSP
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Certification
5 6 (10.17%) CISM
6 5 (8.47%) GSEC
6 5 (8.47%) OSCP
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (5.08%) Degree
8 3 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.39%) CCSK
9 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) GRC
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) NCSC
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.39%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
2 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) KVM
3 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (93.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (28.81%) Prometheus
3 15 (25.42%) Grafana
4 12 (20.34%) linkerd
5 10 (16.95%) Ansible
5 10 (16.95%) Argo
6 6 (10.17%) Kustomize
7 4 (6.78%) Cilium
8 3 (5.08%) Puppet
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Dynatrace
2 6 (10.17%) Google
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) VMware
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Alias
5 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) F5
5 1 (1.69%) Intel
5 1 (1.69%) Pegasus