Istio Contracts in the UK excluding London

Istio
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 367 421
Rank change year-on-year +49 +54 +41
Contract jobs citing Istio 18 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.96% 1.36% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 33
10th Percentile £475 £338 £469
25th Percentile £498 £435 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £709 £489 £650
Median % change year-on-year +44.99% -24.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £747 £554 £676
90th Percentile £750 £649 -
UK median daily rate £700 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +41.99% -24.15% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in the UK excluding London

Istio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Istio in the UK excluding London

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the UK excluding London

Istio
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +30 16 £710 +36.54% 10
Yorkshire +13 8 £725 +39.42% 5
North West +21 6 £475 - 5
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +29 1 £567 +23.26% 1
Scotland +12 1 - - 2
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (44.44%) nginx
2 7 (38.89%) Traefik
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 9 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (16.67%) Azure
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (11.11%) npm
8 1 (5.56%) Apigee
8 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) DNS
2 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Jenkins
2 11 (61.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Jaeger
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Military
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
2 8 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Kafka
2 9 (50.00%) cloud-init
2 9 (50.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (11.11%) gRPC
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OpenID
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 11 (61.11%) Unix
3 9 (50.00%) CentOS
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 15 (83.33%) DevOps
3 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 9 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (50.00%) Identity Management
5 9 (50.00%) Observability
5 9 (50.00%) Secrets Management
5 9 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (38.89%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (16.67%) Digital Twin
8 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
8 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Bash
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (77.78%) Terraform
3 11 (61.11%) Grafana
4 9 (50.00%) Consul
4 9 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (50.00%) linkerd
4 9 (50.00%) Packer
4 9 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (50.00%) Rancher
4 9 (50.00%) ZABBIX
5 7 (38.89%) HAProxy
6 3 (16.67%) Kustomize
7 2 (11.11%) Control-M
7 2 (11.11%) Kiali
8 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (5.56%) Argo
8 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Splunk
2 10 (55.56%) Okta
3 7 (38.89%) Apple
3 7 (38.89%) ESET
4 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) xMatters