Istio Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Istio
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Istio 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.19% - 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.17% - 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £392 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - £519
75th Percentile £528 - £597
90th Percentile £534 - £644
England median daily rate £531 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -3.41% -15.38% -3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 515 277 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.53% 10.90% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 174 248
10th Percentile £263 £202 £241
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £570
90th Percentile £650 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £20.20 - £15.34
25th Percentile £26.13 £12.18 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.85 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +180.16% -27.48% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £14.43 £36.36
90th Percentile £69.00 £16.07 £47.54
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.02% -24.03% +34.83%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Istio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Istio

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the Midlands

Istio
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £387 -
Istio
England

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Parquet
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) MLflow
5 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (16.67%) Poetry
5 1 (16.67%) PyCharm
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (33.33%) Flask
2 2 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 2 (33.33%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft