Istio Contracts in the North East

Istio
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Istio 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.14% - 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.75% - 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
England median daily rate £495 £508 £650
% change year-on-year -2.46% -21.92% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 North East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 48 30 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 16.72% 12.45% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 4 26
10th Percentile £240 £313 £366
25th Percentile £408 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -22.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £452 £681
90th Percentile £579 £511 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -2.38% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% - +301.57%
England median hourly rate £54.50 £36.83 £49.52
% change year-on-year +47.97% -25.62% +117.67%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in the North East

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Istio

Istio
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 5 £550 - 2
Istio
England

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 8 (88.89%) GitOps
2 8 (88.89%) Validation
3 6 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
6 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Bash
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Argo
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat