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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 453 520
Rank change year-on-year -51 +67 +82
Contract jobs citing Istio 39 53 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 1.23% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 33
10th Percentile £406 £360 £455
25th Percentile £423 £481 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £595 £738 £700
90th Percentile £735 £750 £770
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% -3.85%

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 4,912 4,304 5,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.01% 14.18% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 2,754 3,872
10th Percentile £310 £313 £302
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 £613 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.05% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 158
10th Percentile £18.72 £14.88 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.94 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.75 £36.17 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +7.15% -21.69% +62.04%
75th Percentile £66.27 £61.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £75.05 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £27.13 £46.84
% change year-on-year +23.08% -42.09% +75.63%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -7 16 £550 -4.35% 2
North of England -50 13 £550 -21.43% 2
North East +2 10 £556 -25.83%
Midlands - 6 £464 -
East Midlands - 4 £525 -
South East -3 3 £433 -12.27% 3
Yorkshire -37 2 £425 -42.37%
South West - 2 £538 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £387 -
North West -30 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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.26%) Traefik
3 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) GitHub
2 17 (43.59%) GCP
3 14 (35.90%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (35.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (30.77%) Azure
4 12 (30.77%) OpenShift
5 10 (25.64%) AWS
6 8 (20.51%) Amazon S3
7 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (12.82%) Azure AKS
9 4 (10.26%) Apigee
10 3 (7.69%) Stackdriver
11 2 (5.13%) Anthos
11 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
11 2 (5.13%) Pulumi
11 2 (5.13%) Slack
12 1 (2.56%) Figma
12 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) SSH
1 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) Calico
2 2 (5.13%) SSL
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) Big Data
2 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.69%) Parquet
3 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 26 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) GitLab
3 7 (17.95%) SonarQube
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
5 4 (10.26%) Git
5 4 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (10.26%) Spinnaker
6 3 (7.69%) MLflow
7 2 (5.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (5.13%) Poetry
7 2 (5.13%) PyCharm
7 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.56%) Gradle
8 1 (2.56%) Maven
8 1 (2.56%) Snyk
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (10.26%) Banking
2 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) GCP DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (2.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Keycloak
2 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (10.26%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) Apache Avro
4 3 (7.69%) Flask
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
4 3 (7.69%) NumPy
4 3 (7.69%) Pandas
5 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Swagger
5 2 (5.13%) YAML
6 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.56%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (2.56%) Jest
6 1 (2.56%) JWT
6 1 (2.56%) Loki
6 1 (2.56%) ModSecurity
6 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) IVR
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) VMS
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 27 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (58.97%) DevOps
4 16 (41.03%) Containerisation
5 15 (38.46%) GitOps
6 12 (30.77%) Observability
7 11 (28.21%) Migration
7 11 (28.21%) Secrets Management
8 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (20.51%) Microservices
9 8 (20.51%) Validation
10 7 (17.95%) DevSecOps
11 6 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 5 (12.82%) Agile
12 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (10.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 4 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
13 4 (10.26%) Incident Response
13 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) Python
2 21 (53.85%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) Go
4 6 (15.38%) Groovy
5 5 (12.82%) SQL
6 4 (10.26%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.69%) C#
8 2 (5.13%) Bicep
8 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NCSC
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) etcd
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (76.92%) Terraform
3 18 (46.15%) Argo
4 17 (43.59%) Ansible
5 11 (28.21%) Grafana
6 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
7 4 (10.26%) linkerd
7 4 (10.26%) Puppet
8 1 (2.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Red Hat
2 10 (25.64%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Clearswift
5 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable