Istio Contracts in Manchester

Istio
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 94 105
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Istio 6 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.13% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.08% 1.20% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile £405 - £613
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £640 - £688
North West median daily rate £475 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 167 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.87% 11.01% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 245
10th Percentile £225 £323 £376
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £55.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £20.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +143.90% +64.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £102.40 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Istio in Manchester

Istio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Istio in Manchester

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Istio in Manchester

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) npm
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Calico
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) cloud-init
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Twin
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (16.67%) Consul
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (16.67%) linkerd
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Rancher
3 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk