Istio Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Istio
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 68 54
Rank change year-on-year -27 -14 -
Contract jobs citing Istio 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.36% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 1.78% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £511 £597 -
25th Percentile £526 £637 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £708 £520
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% +36.15% -
75th Percentile £586 £711 £530
90th Percentile £604 £712 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £555 £708 £520
% change year-on-year -21.61% +36.15% -

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 280 169 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 25.20% 26.87% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 116 65
10th Percentile £358 £319 £385
25th Percentile £440 £398 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £472 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.90% -12.19% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £622
90th Percentile £685 £610 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Istio job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Istio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Istio

Istio
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Sheffield -24 4 £555 -21.61% 3
Istio
Yorkshire

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
1 4 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google