Istio Contracts in the North of England

Istio
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 168 189
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +44
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Istio 16 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.096% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.17% 0.78% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £392 £496 £430
25th Percentile £402 £502 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -3.26% -14.00%
75th Percentile £610 £530 £606
90th Percentile £710 - £643
England median daily rate £523 £515 £650
% change year-on-year +1.46% -20.77% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 736 514 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.28% 12.28% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 339 494
10th Percentile £260 £249 £313
25th Percentile £375 £381 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -6.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £599
90th Percentile £638 £650 £685
England median daily rate £512 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -2.43% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 47
10th Percentile £18.87 £28.53 £17.15
25th Percentile £23.15 £42.01 £21.21
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% +0.65% +110.65%
75th Percentile £80.19 £46.82 £46.18
90th Percentile £92.08 £65.33 £64.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year +45.17% -29.43% +122.83%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Istio in the North of England

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the North of England

Istio
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North East - 9 £550 - 2
North West -3 4 £400 -18.86% 9
Yorkshire -9 3 £708 +36.15%
Istio
England

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) OpenShift
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (25.00%) npm
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) Maven
3 3 (18.75%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Keycloak
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Android
2 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (56.25%) Migration
4 8 (50.00%) GitOps
4 8 (50.00%) Validation
5 6 (37.50%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Secrets Management
8 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 2 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Groovy
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (75.00%) Terraform
3 8 (50.00%) Ansible
3 8 (50.00%) Argo
4 3 (18.75%) Control-M
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Kiali
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 3 (18.75%) xMatters