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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 533 525
Rank change year-on-year +46 -8 +90
Contract jobs citing Istio 35 43 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 0.84% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 104
10th Percentile £460 £343 £504
25th Percentile £475 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £489 £650
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% -24.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £547 £688
90th Percentile - £636 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £579 £485 £650
% change year-on-year +19.28% -25.38% +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 4,614 5,107 9,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 12.00% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,144 3,681 6,532
10th Percentile £311 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £514 £561
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -8.38% -0.71%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 112 203
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £17.72 £22.58
Median hourly rate £26.88 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -53.15% +144.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £71.25 £82.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.48% -32.35% +112.50%

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 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Top 8 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 17 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
England +47 25 £663 +37.02% 20
London +44 14 £688 +27.91% 8
Work from Home +48 12 £663 +15.72% 16
UK excluding London +24 11 £579 +19.28% 16
North of England +24 10 £590 +13.46% 8
North West +21 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +15 4 £709 +36.35% 5
South East +26 1 £567 +22.46% 2

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 6 (17.14%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) nginx
3 4 (11.43%) Camunda
4 3 (8.57%) Confluence
4 3 (8.57%) Traefik
5 2 (5.71%) Alfresco
5 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
5 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) GCP
2 10 (28.57%) GitHub
3 9 (25.71%) Azure
4 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (11.43%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.57%) Kong
8 2 (5.71%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (5.71%) npm
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) Calico
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) MongoDB
2 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.00%) Redis
3 5 (14.29%) Hazelcast
3 5 (14.29%) MySQL
4 4 (11.43%) GIS
5 3 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.86%) Big Data
7 1 (2.86%) Flink
7 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (31.43%) GitLab
3 8 (22.86%) Maven
4 7 (20.00%) Git
5 4 (11.43%) Jaeger
6 3 (8.57%) JIRA
7 2 (5.71%) JUnit
8 1 (2.86%) Gradle
8 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (22.86%) Banking
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Military
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
3 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) Kafka
2 10 (28.57%) Spring
3 8 (22.86%) Keycloak
4 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (11.43%) cloud-init
6 4 (11.43%) HTML
6 4 (11.43%) XML
7 3 (8.57%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (8.57%) gRPC
7 3 (8.57%) J2EE
8 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.86%) Loki
8 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (2.86%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) PKI
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) IVR
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Unix
3 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (11.43%) CentOS
5 2 (5.71%) Android
5 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) DevOps
2 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 16 (45.71%) Microservices
4 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Agile
8 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
8 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.14%) Observability
9 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (14.29%) GitOps
9 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (11.43%) Digital Twin
10 4 (11.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (11.43%) Secrets Management
10 4 (11.43%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Java
2 14 (40.00%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) Bash
4 8 (22.86%) Go
5 5 (14.29%) Groovy
6 3 (8.57%) C
6 3 (8.57%) C++
6 3 (8.57%) Perl
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.57%) SQL
7 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NCSC
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (97.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (57.14%) Terraform
3 13 (37.14%) Grafana
4 10 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (17.14%) Control-M
5 6 (17.14%) linkerd
6 5 (14.29%) Ansible
6 5 (14.29%) Consul
7 4 (11.43%) Argo
7 4 (11.43%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (11.43%) Kustomize
7 4 (11.43%) Packer
7 4 (11.43%) Puppet
7 4 (11.43%) Rancher
7 4 (11.43%) ZABBIX
8 3 (8.57%) HAProxy
8 3 (8.57%) Kiali
8 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
8 3 (8.57%) Rundeck
9 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Splunk
2 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.43%) Google
3 4 (11.43%) Okta
4 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
4 3 (8.57%) Apple
4 3 (8.57%) ESET
4 3 (8.57%) Hitachi
4 3 (8.57%) xMatters
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.86%) New Relic
6 1 (2.86%) Pega
6 1 (2.86%) VMware
6 1 (2.86%) Wind River