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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 434 519
Rank change year-on-year -89 +85 +25
Contract jobs citing Istio 53 48 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 1.22% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 23
10th Percentile £361 £360 £397
25th Percentile £416 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +26.83% -24.07%
75th Percentile £670 £738 £663
90th Percentile £805 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £516
% change year-on-year -18.37% +18.76% -22.68%

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 5,319 3,919 4,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.27% 15.10% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,669 2,564 3,358
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 42 149
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.01 £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% -35.50% -16.02%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -2.78%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -53 24 £703 +8.08% 1
North of England -66 14 £400 -31.91% 2
Yorkshire -59 10 £375 -48.28% 1
South East -25 8 £433 -23.72% 1
North West -31 3 - - 1
South West - 2 £538 -
East Midlands - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
North East -16 1 £600 -20.00%
East of England - 1 £850 -
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 (9.43%) Confluence
2 4 (7.55%) Traefik
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) GitHub
2 32 (60.38%) GCP
3 31 (58.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 27 (50.94%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (37.74%) Azure
6 16 (30.19%) AWS
7 11 (20.75%) Azure AKS
8 9 (16.98%) Apigee
8 9 (16.98%) OpenShift
8 9 (16.98%) Stackdriver
9 8 (15.09%) Google Gemini
10 7 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (11.32%) Cloud Run
12 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
13 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (5.66%) Anthos
14 3 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (5.66%) Azure Storage
14 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Calico
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 3 (5.66%) Network Security
2 3 (5.66%) VPN
3 2 (3.77%) DNS
3 2 (3.77%) VSAN
4 1 (1.89%) DHCP
4 1 (1.89%) ICMP
4 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) BigQuery
2 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (15.09%) Redis
4 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.89%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 30 (56.60%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.08%) GitLab
3 5 (9.43%) JIRA
3 5 (9.43%) Spinnaker
4 4 (7.55%) Git
5 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
1 6 (11.32%) Retail
2 5 (9.43%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Banking
3 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) GCP Engineer
2 18 (33.96%) Senior
3 17 (32.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 8 (15.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (13.21%) Architect
9 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 5 (9.43%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (9.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) Lead
11 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (5.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (5.66%) Senior Architect
12 3 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 2 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Node.js
1 10 (18.87%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (16.98%) Kafka
3 7 (13.21%) React
4 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
4 6 (11.32%) Keycloak
4 6 (11.32%) LangChain
4 6 (11.32%) OpenAPI
4 6 (11.32%) REST
4 6 (11.32%) Spring
4 6 (11.32%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.32%) Swagger
5 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.77%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (3.77%) OAuth
6 2 (3.77%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.77%) YAML
7 1 (1.89%) ADO
7 1 (1.89%) Loki
7 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.87%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.89%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.89%) EMV
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) VMS
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (96.23%) CI/CD
2 40 (75.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (71.70%) DevOps
4 28 (52.83%) Observability
5 25 (47.17%) Containerisation
6 21 (39.62%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (32.08%) GitOps
8 15 (28.30%) Microservices
9 14 (26.42%) DevSecOps
10 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (22.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (18.87%) Generative AI
12 9 (16.98%) AI
13 8 (15.09%) Open Source
13 8 (15.09%) Thought Leadership
14 7 (13.21%) Agile
14 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
14 7 (13.21%) Migration
14 7 (13.21%) SDLC
15 6 (11.32%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (69.81%) Python
2 18 (33.96%) Bash
3 8 (15.09%) Go
3 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.32%) Groovy
5 5 (9.43%) Bicep
6 4 (7.55%) Java
7 3 (5.66%) C#
8 2 (3.77%) SQL
8 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMP
5 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) NCSC
2 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 21 (39.62%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.77%) vSphere
4 1 (1.89%) etcd
Systems Management
1 51 (96.23%) Kubernetes
2 44 (83.02%) Terraform
3 16 (30.19%) Argo
3 16 (30.19%) Prometheus
4 13 (24.53%) Grafana
5 10 (18.87%) Ansible
6 8 (15.09%) linkerd
7 2 (3.77%) Puppet
8 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Google
2 10 (18.87%) Dynatrace
3 9 (16.98%) Red Hat
3 9 (16.98%) VMware
4 8 (15.09%) Splunk
5 2 (3.77%) Arista
5 2 (3.77%) Cisco
5 2 (3.77%) Wind River
6 1 (1.89%) Clearswift
6 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle