Istio Contract Job Trends in London

Istio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 355 391
Rank change year-on-year -63 +36 -1
Contract jobs citing Istio 17 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.086% 0.10% 0.069%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.62% 0.66% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 10
10th Percentile £438 £453 £477
25th Percentile £463 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +20.93% -20.37%
75th Percentile £668 £738 £569
90th Percentile £678 - £626
England median daily rate £475 £565 £493
% change year-on-year -15.89% +14.55% -24.15%

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 2,743 2,112 2,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.87% 15.52% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,912 1,387 1,713
10th Percentile £358 £350 £335
25th Percentile £440 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 36
10th Percentile £24.35 £26.23 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £26.68 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £42.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.59% +69.00% -60.63%
75th Percentile £79.69 £59.88 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Istio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Istio job vacancy trend in London

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Istio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Istio

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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
Central London -12 3 £538 +8.59% 3
Istio
England

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
1 1 (5.88%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) Serverless
4 4 (23.53%) Azure API Management
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Event Grid
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Functions
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (23.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 3 (17.65%) CloudFront
5 3 (17.65%) Google Gemini
6 2 (11.76%) LangSmith
7 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) ICMP
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
2 4 (23.53%) OpenID
3 2 (11.76%) LangChain
3 2 (11.76%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (11.76%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) React
4 1 (5.88%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Google JAX
4 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.88%) JAX
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) LangGraph
4 1 (5.88%) pgvector
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
2 9 (52.94%) Observability
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
7 4 (23.53%) API Management
7 4 (23.53%) SDLC
8 3 (17.65%) AI
8 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
8 3 (17.65%) Open Source
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
9 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
9 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (52.94%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Argo
3 5 (29.41%) linkerd
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Grafana
4 4 (23.53%) Kustomize
5 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Alias
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Pegasus