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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 478 492
Rank change year-on-year -78 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing Istio 60 33 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 0.87% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 25
10th Percentile £399 £388 £430
25th Percentile £416 £419 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £632 £688 £538
90th Percentile £668 £727 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £497
% change year-on-year -10.11% +12.03% -23.62%
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 5,036 3,807 3,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.00% 13.82% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,524 2,779
10th Percentile £307 £281 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +3.25% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 60 61
10th Percentile £21.26 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £66.35 £51.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +30.09% +41.02% -27.67%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +111.03% -17.05% -37.10%

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 28 August 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 28 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 -73 30 £538 -8.51% 54
North of England -69 12 £500 -9.09% 5
South West - 8 £600 - 3
North West -42 7 £450 +12.50% 4
South East -52 7 £353 -8.07% 3
Yorkshire -43 4 £555 -21.61% 1
Midlands -49 3 £477 +23.28% 2
East Midlands -17 2 - - 1
East of England -19 1 £345 -59.41% 3
North East -47 1 £426 -22.64%
West Midlands -55 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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) GCP
2 24 (40.00%) Azure
3 23 (38.33%) AWS
4 16 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (23.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 11 (18.33%) GitHub
7 10 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 10 (16.67%) Serverless
8 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
10 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (8.33%) CloudFront
12 4 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
12 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.33%) DNS
1 11 (18.33%) VPN
2 8 (13.33%) Firewall
3 5 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.67%) BGP
4 4 (6.67%) MPLS
5 3 (5.00%) DHCP
5 3 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (5.00%) WAN
6 2 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (3.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.67%) Calico
7 1 (1.67%) Internet
7 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Redis
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) Metadata
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Git
2 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.00%) GitLab
4 9 (15.00%) SonarQube
5 8 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
6 7 (11.67%) JIRA
7 4 (6.67%) JUnit
8 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.00%) Postman
8 3 (5.00%) Selenium
9 2 (3.33%) Burp Suite
9 2 (3.33%) Gatling
9 2 (3.33%) Gradle
9 2 (3.33%) Jaeger
9 2 (3.33%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.33%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 12 (20.00%) Banking
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (21.67%) Senior
4 11 (18.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) Network Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Architect
6 7 (11.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (11.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Security Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (51.67%) Terraform
2 11 (18.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (16.67%) Kafka
4 7 (11.67%) Spring
5 6 (10.00%) OpenID
6 5 (8.33%) OAuth
6 5 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.33%) React
6 5 (8.33%) REST
6 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.67%) .NET
8 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
8 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (5.00%) Node.js
8 3 (5.00%) RESTful
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.33%) Loki
9 2 (3.33%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 34 (56.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) PKI
3 6 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
6 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.00%) Observability
3 26 (43.33%) DevOps
3 26 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (38.33%) Containerisation
6 21 (35.00%) Microservices
7 19 (31.67%) Load Balancing
8 14 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (18.33%) Event-Driven
10 11 (18.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (18.33%) High Availability
10 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (16.67%) GitOps
11 10 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 10 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) Python
2 21 (35.00%) Bash
3 10 (16.67%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) Go
5 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.33%) SQL
7 4 (6.67%) Bicep
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) C#
9 1 (1.67%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.67%) CISSP
5 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (10.00%) CISM
6 5 (8.33%) GSEC
6 5 (8.33%) OSCP
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (5.00%) Degree
8 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.33%) CCSK
9 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) GRC
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) NCSC
2 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 22 (36.67%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) KVM
3 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 16 (26.67%) Grafana
4 13 (21.67%) linkerd
5 10 (16.67%) Ansible
5 10 (16.67%) Argo
6 7 (11.67%) Kustomize
7 4 (6.67%) Cilium
8 3 (5.00%) Puppet
9 1 (1.67%) Kibana
9 1 (1.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 6 (10.00%) Google
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Alias
5 1 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) Intel
5 1 (1.67%) Pegasus