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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 431 495
Rank change year-on-year -82 +64 +23
Contract jobs citing Istio 66 44 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.18% 0.099%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 1.15% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 30 19
10th Percentile £363 £461 £338
25th Percentile £416 £545 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £709 £485
Median % change year-on-year -29.48% +46.19% -25.38%
75th Percentile £652 £738 £534
90th Percentile £737 £750 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £700 £497
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.99% -24.20%

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 5,520 3,830 4,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 15.64% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,650 3,200
10th Percentile £314 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.89 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £52.88
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%

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 April 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 April 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 -42 28 £650 -8.77% 13
North of England -67 17 £463 -34.86% 2
South East -33 11 £433 -23.72% 3
Yorkshire -54 10 £375 -48.28%
North West -46 6 £651 +37.05% 2
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
South West - 3 £538 - 1
North East -14 1 £600 -20.00%
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.03%) nginx
2 2 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (57.58%) GitHub
2 37 (56.06%) GCP
3 35 (53.03%) Azure
4 30 (45.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 29 (43.94%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (36.36%) AWS
7 19 (28.79%) Azure AKS
8 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (16.67%) OpenShift
10 10 (15.15%) Google Gemini
11 9 (13.64%) Apigee
11 9 (13.64%) Stackdriver
12 8 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (9.09%) Azure API Management
14 6 (9.09%) Cloud Run
15 5 (7.58%) Serverless
16 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
16 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Network Security
2 2 (3.03%) Calico
2 2 (3.03%) DNS
2 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) VPN
2 2 (3.03%) VSAN
3 1 (1.52%) DHCP
3 1 (1.52%) ICMP
3 1 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Redis
2 9 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (33.33%) GitLab
3 8 (12.12%) Git
4 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.06%) JIRA
5 4 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.55%) Jaeger
6 3 (4.55%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (13.64%) Banking
2 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.09%) Retail
3 6 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Finance
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Senior
2 21 (31.82%) GCP Engineer
3 19 (28.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (25.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (25.76%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) Architect
7 9 (13.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Architect
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
12 3 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (15.15%) Node.js
3 9 (13.64%) Kafka
4 7 (10.61%) LangChain
4 7 (10.61%) React
4 7 (10.61%) REST
5 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 6 (9.09%) Keycloak
5 6 (9.09%) OAuth
5 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 6 (9.09%) OpenAPI
5 6 (9.09%) Spring
5 6 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.09%) Swagger
6 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.06%) .NET
7 4 (6.06%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (6.06%) OpenID
8 3 (4.55%) ADO
8 3 (4.55%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 26 (39.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.15%) Public Cloud
3 9 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.55%) AI Agents
6 3 (4.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.52%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.52%) EMV
8 1 (1.52%) PKI
8 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (93.94%) CI/CD
2 50 (75.76%) DevOps
3 43 (65.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (54.55%) Observability
5 35 (53.03%) Containerisation
6 30 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (33.33%) Microservices
8 19 (28.79%) GitOps
9 15 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (21.21%) DevSecOps
11 11 (16.67%) API Management
12 10 (15.15%) AI
12 10 (15.15%) Generative AI
12 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (15.15%) Open Source
13 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (13.64%) SDLC
14 8 (12.12%) Cloud Security
14 8 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (12.12%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (63.64%) Python
2 24 (36.36%) Bash
3 11 (16.67%) Go
3 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.12%) Bicep
5 7 (10.61%) Java
6 5 (7.58%) Groovy
7 3 (4.55%) C#
8 2 (3.03%) SQL
9 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.52%) CCSK
6 1 (1.52%) CISSP
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) NCSC
2 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (42.42%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (92.42%) Kubernetes
2 50 (75.76%) Terraform
3 27 (40.91%) Prometheus
4 21 (31.82%) Grafana
5 18 (27.27%) Argo
6 15 (22.73%) linkerd
7 12 (18.18%) Ansible
8 4 (6.06%) Kustomize
8 4 (6.06%) Puppet
9 2 (3.03%) Rancher
10 1 (1.52%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) Google
2 12 (18.18%) Dynatrace
3 10 (15.15%) Splunk
4 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 9 (13.64%) VMware
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Arista
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.03%) Wind River
7 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.52%) Pegasus