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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 452 489
Rank change year-on-year -82 +37 +19
Contract jobs citing Istio 63 24 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% 0.64% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 24
10th Percentile £358 £450 £353
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £675 £484
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +39.61% -25.62%
75th Percentile £664 £738 £532
90th Percentile £766 - £628
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £489
% change year-on-year -18.37% +25.26% -24.77%

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 5,540 3,733 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.68% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 2,563 3,236
10th Percentile £313 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 37 97
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.53 £21.39 £17.78
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.25% +5.56% -48.39%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +98.20% -7.50% -45.45%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -52 26 £648 -7.50% 8
North of England -65 18 £426 -27.88% 3
South East -52 11 £402 -29.10% 2
Yorkshire -51 9 £375 -47.11%
North West -34 8 £651 +37.05% 3
South West - 5 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £426 -
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 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) GCP
2 31 (49.21%) Azure
2 31 (49.21%) GitHub
3 27 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 26 (41.27%) AWS
5 25 (39.68%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (26.98%) Azure AKS
7 11 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (15.87%) Google Gemini
8 10 (15.87%) OpenShift
9 8 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (11.11%) Stackdriver
11 6 (9.52%) Apigee
11 6 (9.52%) Azure API Management
11 6 (9.52%) Cloud Run
12 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (7.94%) Serverless
13 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
13 4 (6.35%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
1 4 (6.35%) Network Security
2 3 (4.76%) Calico
2 3 (4.76%) Firewall
3 2 (3.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.17%) VSAN
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) ICMP
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Redis
2 9 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 21 (33.33%) GitLab
3 9 (14.29%) Git
4 6 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.35%) Jaeger
7 3 (4.76%) JIRA
8 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.17%) JUnit
8 2 (3.17%) Postman
8 2 (3.17%) Selenium
8 2 (3.17%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.59%) Gatling
9 1 (1.59%) Gradle
9 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (14.29%) Banking
2 6 (9.52%) Retail
3 5 (7.94%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.94%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
1 18 (28.57%) Senior
2 14 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) GCP DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (15.87%) Kafka
3 9 (14.29%) Node.js
4 8 (12.70%) React
4 8 (12.70%) Spring
5 7 (11.11%) LangChain
5 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 6 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.52%) OAuth
6 6 (9.52%) OAuth2
6 6 (9.52%) REST
7 5 (7.94%) .NET
7 5 (7.94%) Keycloak
7 5 (7.94%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.94%) Swagger
8 4 (6.35%) Loki
8 4 (6.35%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (6.35%) OpenID
9 2 (3.17%) ADO
9 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (39.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.70%) Public Cloud
4 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
6 4 (6.35%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
8 2 (3.17%) PKI
8 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.59%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.59%) EMV
9 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 44 (69.84%) DevOps
3 38 (60.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (57.14%) Observability
5 34 (53.97%) Containerisation
6 25 (39.68%) Platform Engineering
7 23 (36.51%) Microservices
8 20 (31.75%) GitOps
9 18 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (22.22%) DevSecOps
11 10 (15.87%) AI
11 10 (15.87%) Generative AI
11 10 (15.87%) Open Source
11 10 (15.87%) SDLC
12 9 (14.29%) API Management
12 9 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 9 (14.29%) Load Balancing
13 8 (12.70%) Incident Response
13 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (55.56%) Python
2 23 (36.51%) Bash
3 12 (19.05%) Go
4 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.52%) Bicep
6 5 (7.94%) Java
7 4 (6.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) SQL
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) CCSK
5 2 (3.17%) CISSP
6 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.59%) CCSP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CISM
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) NCSC
1 6 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) GRC
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 28 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.76%) vSphere
4 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.59%) KVM
5 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (92.06%) Kubernetes
2 44 (69.84%) Terraform
3 28 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 22 (34.92%) Grafana
5 17 (26.98%) Argo
6 15 (23.81%) linkerd
7 10 (15.87%) Ansible
8 5 (7.94%) Kustomize
9 3 (4.76%) Rancher
10 2 (3.17%) Puppet
11 1 (1.59%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Google
2 11 (17.46%) Dynatrace
3 10 (15.87%) Splunk
4 9 (14.29%) VMware
5 7 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.35%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) Arista
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.17%) Wind River
8 1 (1.59%) Alias
8 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.59%) Pegasus