Istio Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Istio
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 76 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +26
Contract jobs citing Istio 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% 0.44% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.30% 3.21% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £400 £345 -
25th Percentile £401 £352 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £358 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -33.40% -14.00%
75th Percentile £402 £360 £556
90th Percentile £402 - -
North West median daily rate £401 £360 £538
% change year-on-year +11.39% -33.02% -14.00%

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 154 156 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.85% 13.65% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 89 211
10th Percentile £312 £323 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% -3.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £19.21 £31.18 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £33.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £49.50 £39.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% -10.29% +17.97%
75th Percentile £87.13 £44.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £91.85 £47.13 £78.75
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -39.13% -32.87% +112.03%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Istio job vacancy trend in Manchester

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Istio

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Calico
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM