Istio Contract Job Trends

Istio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Istio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 485 547
Rank change year-on-year -67 +62 -2
Contract jobs citing Istio 81 40 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.100%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.25% 0.86% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 28 22
10th Percentile £363 £468 £343
25th Percentile £416 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £688 £489
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +40.59% -24.77%
75th Percentile £603 £738 £547
90th Percentile £672 £741 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £708 £485
% change year-on-year -38.91% +45.98% -25.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
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 6,481 4,643 5,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.56% 15.80% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,464 3,174 3,660
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £498 £494
% change year-on-year -1.11% +0.71% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 115
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.50 £20.21 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.48 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% +2.76% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year +127.46% -12.07% -38.72%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the UK

Istio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Istio

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Istio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Istio

Istio
Top 12 Contract Job 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 10 May 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
England -85 62 £488 -30.36% 12
UK excluding London -71 40 £433 -38.91% 7
London -45 25 £655 -4.73% 5
Work from Home -31 22 £525 -27.59% 8
North of England -58 16 £425 -40.06% 3
South East -53 12 £417 -26.41% 3
Yorkshire -54 10 £375 -48.28%
North West -38 6 £651 +37.05% 2
Scotland - 6 £538 -
East Midlands - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 4 £525 -
South West - 2 £538 -

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) Traefik
3 1 (1.23%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (59.26%) GitHub
2 46 (56.79%) GCP
3 39 (48.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 35 (43.21%) Azure
5 30 (37.04%) AWS
5 30 (37.04%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (24.69%) Azure AKS
7 14 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (13.58%) OpenShift
10 10 (12.35%) Google Gemini
11 9 (11.11%) Apigee
11 9 (11.11%) Stackdriver
12 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (7.41%) Azure API Management
13 6 (7.41%) Cloud Run
13 6 (7.41%) Serverless
14 4 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) Calico
2 2 (2.47%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) VPN
2 2 (2.47%) VSAN
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) ICMP
3 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Redis
2 9 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 43 (53.09%) Jenkins
2 21 (25.93%) GitLab
3 10 (12.35%) Git
4 6 (7.41%) JIRA
5 5 (6.17%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.94%) Jaeger
7 3 (3.70%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.70%) Spinnaker
8 2 (2.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.64%) Banking
3 6 (7.41%) Finance
3 6 (7.41%) Retail
3 6 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) GCP Engineer
2 21 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (23.46%) Senior
4 17 (20.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (20.99%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Architect
5 12 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (8.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) DevOps Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (12.35%) Kafka
2 10 (12.35%) Node.js
3 9 (11.11%) Spring
3 9 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.64%) LangChain
4 7 (8.64%) OpenAPI
4 7 (8.64%) React
4 7 (8.64%) REST
4 7 (8.64%) Swagger
5 6 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.41%) Keycloak
5 6 (7.41%) OAuth
5 6 (7.41%) OAuth2
6 5 (6.17%) .NET
6 5 (6.17%) Loki
6 5 (6.17%) OpenID
7 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.94%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (3.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 27 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 20 (24.69%) Public Cloud
3 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (9.88%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.70%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.23%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.23%) EMV
9 1 (1.23%) PKI
9 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (95.06%) CI/CD
2 63 (77.78%) DevOps
3 57 (70.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (46.91%) Platform Engineering
5 37 (45.68%) Observability
6 34 (41.98%) Containerisation
7 26 (32.10%) GitOps
8 22 (27.16%) Microservices
9 19 (23.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (19.75%) DevSecOps
10 16 (19.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (14.81%) API Management
11 12 (14.81%) Secrets Management
12 10 (12.35%) Agile
12 10 (12.35%) AI
12 10 (12.35%) Generative AI
12 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (12.35%) Open Source
13 9 (11.11%) Migration
13 9 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (65.43%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) Bash
3 12 (14.81%) Java
3 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.58%) Go
5 8 (9.88%) Bicep
6 4 (4.94%) Groovy
7 3 (3.70%) C#
8 2 (2.47%) SQL
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.23%) CCSK
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.23%) OCP
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) NCSC
2 6 (7.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) GRC
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.47%) vSphere
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (80.25%) Kubernetes
2 64 (79.01%) Terraform
3 27 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 21 (25.93%) Grafana
5 19 (23.46%) Argo
6 15 (18.52%) linkerd
7 12 (14.81%) Ansible
8 4 (4.94%) Kustomize
8 4 (4.94%) Puppet
9 3 (3.70%) Rancher
10 1 (1.23%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (39.51%) Google
2 11 (13.58%) Dynatrace
3 10 (12.35%) Splunk
4 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 9 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) Arista
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle
5 2 (2.47%) Wind River
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.23%) Pegasus