Istio Contracts in London

Istio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Istio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Istio over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 385 386
Rank change year-on-year +54 +1 +70
Contract jobs citing Istio 22 6 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.034% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.11% 0.28% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 77
10th Percentile £494 £469 £513
25th Percentile £609 £497 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +32.56% -20.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £738 £564 £700
90th Percentile £744 £589 £753
England median daily rate £709 £485 £650
% change year-on-year +46.19% -25.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £102.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £95.00

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in London

Istio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio in London.

Daily rate trend for Istio in London

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in London

Istio
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London - 3 £700 -
South London - 2 £474 -
Istio
England

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) nginx
2 5 (22.73%) Traefik
3 2 (9.09%) Apache
3 2 (9.09%) Camunda
3 2 (9.09%) Confluence
4 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (22.73%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
2 5 (22.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Kong
5 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
2 6 (27.27%) Redis
3 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (13.64%) Hazelcast
5 2 (9.09%) GIS
5 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) GitLab
2 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (36.36%) Maven
4 7 (31.82%) Git
5 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (27.27%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Military
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) Kafka
2 12 (54.55%) Spring
3 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
4 7 (31.82%) Keycloak
5 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
5 5 (22.73%) cloud-init
5 5 (22.73%) J2EE
6 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (9.09%) HTML
7 2 (9.09%) Java EE
7 2 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (22.73%) CentOS
3 5 (22.73%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) Microservices
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Identity Management
6 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (22.73%) Observability
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Secrets Management
6 5 (22.73%) Static Application Security Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 3 (13.64%) Batch Management
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) RBAC
9 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) Bash
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Go
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (77.27%) Terraform
3 10 (45.45%) Grafana
3 10 (45.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (27.27%) Argo
5 5 (22.73%) Consul
5 5 (22.73%) HAProxy
5 5 (22.73%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (22.73%) linkerd
5 5 (22.73%) Packer
5 5 (22.73%) Rancher
5 5 (22.73%) ZABBIX
6 4 (18.18%) Ansible
7 3 (13.64%) Control-M
7 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
7 3 (13.64%) Puppet
7 3 (13.64%) Rundeck
8 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (4.55%) Podman
8 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Apple
1 5 (22.73%) ESET
1 5 (22.73%) Okta
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
2 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Pega
4 1 (4.55%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Wind River