Istio Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Istio
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Istio 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% - 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.62% - 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £321 - £458
25th Percentile £333 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 - £482
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.63%
75th Percentile £373 - £497
90th Percentile £385 - £513
South East median daily rate £353 £384 £482
% change year-on-year -8.07% -20.33% -15.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.25 - -
90th Percentile £70.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 309 213 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.81% 12.88% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 115 189
10th Percentile £319 £250 £278
25th Percentile £400 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.08%
75th Percentile £609 £550 £608
90th Percentile £665 £648 £640
South East median daily rate £533 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 5
10th Percentile £30.63 - £21.60
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +61.76% -30.70%
75th Percentile £71.00 £83.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £78.11 £86.98 £37.50
South East median hourly rate £68.00 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +107.51% -9.39% -27.28%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Istio
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Istio

Istio
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
Berkshire - 3 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £353 -
Istio
South East

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Loki
3 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) FinOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) VMware