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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 426 507
Rank change year-on-year -100 +81 -4
Contract jobs citing Istio 61 47 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 28 20
10th Percentile £363 £449 £338
25th Percentile £416 £475 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £713 £489
Median % change year-on-year -29.30% +45.71% -27.56%
75th Percentile £652 £738 £614
90th Percentile £766 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -25.04%

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 5,554 3,860 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.63% 15.91% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,823 2,638 3,266
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 41 129
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.24 £21.05 £17.78
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -46.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.50 £68.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £32.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -17.34% -44.35%

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 March 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 March 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 -56 24 £660 -4.00% 3
North of England -64 17 £463 -36.21% 1
South East -44 11 £433 -23.72% 1
Yorkshire -50 10 £375 -48.28% 1
North West -38 6 £651 +37.05%
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
South West - 3 £538 - 1
North East -11 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 (6.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.28%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.64%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (62.30%) GitHub
2 34 (55.74%) GCP
3 33 (54.10%) Azure
4 30 (49.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 29 (47.54%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (36.07%) AWS
7 18 (29.51%) Azure AKS
8 14 (22.95%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (16.39%) OpenShift
10 9 (14.75%) Apigee
10 9 (14.75%) Stackdriver
11 8 (13.11%) Google Gemini
12 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (9.84%) Cloud Run
14 5 (8.20%) Azure API Management
15 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (6.56%) Serverless
16 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
16 3 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) Calico
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) VPN
2 2 (3.28%) VSAN
3 1 (1.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.64%) ICMP
3 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Redis
2 8 (13.11%) BigQuery
2 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (54.10%) Jenkins
2 21 (34.43%) GitLab
3 7 (11.48%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.56%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.56%) JIRA
5 4 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.92%) Jaeger
6 3 (4.92%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (13.11%) Banking
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.84%) Retail
3 6 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) GCP Engineer
1 21 (34.43%) Senior
2 19 (31.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Architect
5 9 (14.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (11.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (16.39%) Node.js
3 9 (14.75%) Kafka
4 7 (11.48%) REST
5 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
5 6 (9.84%) Keycloak
5 6 (9.84%) LangChain
5 6 (9.84%) OpenAPI
5 6 (9.84%) React
5 6 (9.84%) Spring
5 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.84%) Swagger
6 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (8.20%) OAuth
6 5 (8.20%) OAuth2
7 4 (6.56%) .NET
8 3 (4.92%) ADO
8 3 (4.92%) Loki
8 3 (4.92%) OpenID
9 2 (3.28%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (39.34%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.39%) Public Cloud
3 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.64%) EMV
8 1 (1.64%) PKI
8 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (93.44%) CI/CD
2 49 (80.33%) DevOps
3 43 (70.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (55.74%) Observability
5 32 (52.46%) Containerisation
6 29 (47.54%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (31.15%) GitOps
7 19 (31.15%) Microservices
8 15 (24.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (22.95%) DevSecOps
10 10 (16.39%) API Management
10 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (13.11%) AI
12 8 (13.11%) Cloud Security
12 8 (13.11%) Generative AI
12 8 (13.11%) Open Source
12 8 (13.11%) SDLC
12 8 (13.11%) Thought Leadership
13 7 (11.48%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 40 (65.57%) Python
2 24 (39.34%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) Go
3 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.11%) Bicep
5 7 (11.48%) Java
6 5 (8.20%) Groovy
7 3 (4.92%) C#
8 2 (3.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) Degree
6 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) NCSC
1 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
2 3 (4.92%) GRC
3 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 25 (40.98%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (95.08%) Kubernetes
2 48 (78.69%) Terraform
3 25 (40.98%) Prometheus
4 20 (32.79%) Grafana
5 17 (27.87%) Argo
6 14 (22.95%) linkerd
7 11 (18.03%) Ansible
8 4 (6.56%) Puppet
9 3 (4.92%) Kustomize
10 2 (3.28%) Rancher
11 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Google
2 11 (18.03%) Dynatrace
3 10 (16.39%) Splunk
4 9 (14.75%) Red Hat
5 8 (13.11%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) Arista
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Wind River
7 1 (1.64%) Infoblox