Istio Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Istio
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Istio 4 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.25% 0.11% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.49% 0.72% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £640 £384 £411
25th Percentile £649 £389 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £406 £558
Median % change year-on-year +62.95% -27.13% -13.16%
75th Percentile £669 £427 £599
90th Percentile £672 £433 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +12.82% -25.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 268 278 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.97% 15.08% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 179 195
10th Percentile £301 £200 £348
25th Percentile £422 £350 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £569
90th Percentile £649 £565 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.55 £36.36
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -56.59% +214.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £72.60
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -35.24% +119.57%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Istio job vacancy trend in Scotland

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Istio

Istio
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Glasgow -14 4 £662 +62.95%
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Argo
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform