Istio Contracts

Istio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 559 537
Rank change year-on-year +90 -22 +67
Contract jobs citing Istio 50 41 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.094% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.09% 0.80% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 118
10th Percentile £475 £338 £500
25th Percentile £550 £450 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £493 £650
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -24.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £688
90th Percentile £750 £638 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £709 £489 £650
% change year-on-year +44.99% -24.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £102.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in the UK

Istio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio.

Daily rate trend for Istio in the UK

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +65 40 £709 +46.19% 23
London +52 23 £713 +32.56% 6
Work from Home +60 18 £725 +26.64% 23
UK excluding London +40 18 £709 +44.99% 18
North of England +39 16 £710 +36.54% 9
Yorkshire +20 8 £725 +39.42% 5
North West +15 6 £475 - 4
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +26 1 £567 +23.26%
Scotland +8 1 - - 1

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (30.00%) nginx
2 12 (24.00%) Traefik
3 6 (12.00%) Apache
4 4 (8.00%) Camunda
5 3 (6.00%) Confluence
6 2 (4.00%) Alfresco
6 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 15 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 15 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 14 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (28.00%) AWS Fargate
3 14 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (22.00%) Azure
5 9 (18.00%) GCP
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub
7 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
9 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.00%) Kong
11 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (4.00%) npm
12 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
12 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) DNS
2 14 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.00%) Calico
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) SSL
4 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.00%) Redis
3 5 (10.00%) Hazelcast
3 5 (10.00%) MySQL
4 4 (8.00%) GIS
5 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.00%) Big Data
7 1 (2.00%) Flink
7 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) GitLab
1 24 (48.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (20.00%) Maven
3 3 (6.00%) Jaeger
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (16.00%) Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Military
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (32.00%) Senior
3 14 (28.00%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Lead
7 5 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Architect
10 2 (4.00%) C Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
10 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 1 (2.00%) Lead DevOps
11 1 (2.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (66.00%) Kafka
2 18 (36.00%) Keycloak
3 16 (32.00%) Spring
4 14 (28.00%) cloud-init
5 13 (26.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (10.00%) J2EE
8 4 (8.00%) HTML
8 4 (8.00%) XML
9 3 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (6.00%) gRPC
10 2 (4.00%) Java EE
11 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
11 1 (2.00%) NumPy
11 1 (2.00%) OAuth
11 1 (2.00%) OpenID
11 1 (2.00%) Protocol Buffers
11 1 (2.00%) REST
11 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) PKI
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Linux
2 16 (32.00%) Unix
3 15 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (28.00%) CentOS
5 2 (4.00%) Android
5 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) DevOps
2 32 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (54.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (36.00%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (34.00%) Microservices
6 16 (32.00%) Observability
7 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 15 (30.00%) Identity Management
8 14 (28.00%) Cloud Security
8 14 (28.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (28.00%) Secrets Management
8 14 (28.00%) Static Application Security Testing
9 12 (24.00%) Agile
9 12 (24.00%) Mobile Device Management
10 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
11 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 5 (10.00%) GitOps
12 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 4 (8.00%) Digital Twin
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 23 (46.00%) Bash
3 21 (42.00%) Java
4 17 (34.00%) Go
5 4 (8.00%) Groovy
6 3 (6.00%) Perl
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) SQL
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (46.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (96.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (68.00%) Terraform
3 24 (48.00%) Grafana
4 22 (44.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (32.00%) linkerd
6 15 (30.00%) Consul
7 14 (28.00%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (28.00%) Packer
7 14 (28.00%) Rancher
7 14 (28.00%) ZABBIX
8 12 (24.00%) HAProxy
9 9 (18.00%) Argo
10 5 (10.00%) Control-M
11 4 (8.00%) Ansible
11 4 (8.00%) Kustomize
12 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (6.00%) Puppet
12 3 (6.00%) Rundeck
13 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (4.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Splunk
2 15 (30.00%) Okta
3 12 (24.00%) Apple
3 12 (24.00%) ESET
4 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.00%) Google
6 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.00%) Hitachi
6 2 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (4.00%) xMatters
7 1 (2.00%) New Relic
7 1 (2.00%) Pega
7 1 (2.00%) VMware
7 1 (2.00%) Wind River