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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 346 406
Rank change year-on-year +2 +60 +65
Contract jobs citing Istio 20 36 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.89% 1.52% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 21
10th Percentile £367 £351 £500
25th Percentile £401 £441 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £482 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% -19.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £655 £503 £673
90th Percentile £700 £532 £676
UK median daily rate £590 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +19.68% -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 2,244 2,368 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.82% 12.26% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 1,720 2,259
10th Percentile £235 £250 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £623
90th Percentile £649 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 48 108
10th Percentile £18.11 £16.18 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.25 £19.16 £21.26
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -29.62% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £53.50 £67.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year +25.00% -48.32% +151.11%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -3 12 £563 +8.17% 9
North East - 5 £563 -
North West +5 4 £400 -18.86% 8
Midlands -2 4 £387 -14.01%
Scotland -6 4 £662 +55.76% 5
Yorkshire -8 3 £708 +36.15% 1
South East +2 2 £476 -1.35% 1
West Midlands -4 2 £387 -14.01%
East Midlands - 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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) GCP
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (20.00%) npm
5 4 (20.00%) Slack
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Calico
2 3 (15.00%) SSH
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Big Data
1 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (15.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (15.00%) Parquet
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Maven
3 4 (20.00%) Terragrunt
4 3 (15.00%) Jaeger
4 3 (15.00%) MLflow
4 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.00%) Poetry
5 2 (10.00%) PyCharm
5 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Avro
2 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.00%) Flask
2 3 (15.00%) NumPy
2 3 (15.00%) Pandas
3 2 (10.00%) gRPC
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Android
2 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (55.00%) DevOps
4 9 (45.00%) GitOps
4 9 (45.00%) Migration
5 8 (40.00%) Secrets Management
6 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 6 (30.00%) Agile
7 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (25.00%) Validation
9 4 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
9 4 (20.00%) Coaching
9 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (20.00%) Microservices
9 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
9 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Bash
3 7 (35.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) Groovy
5 5 (25.00%) SQL
6 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (65.00%) Argo
2 13 (65.00%) Terraform
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (15.00%) Control-M
4 3 (15.00%) Grafana
4 3 (15.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (15.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) xMatters
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft