Istio Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Istio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 286 337 408
Rank change year-on-year +51 +71 +94
Contract jobs citing Istio 18 8 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.052% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.17% 0.49% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 44
10th Percentile £450 £463 £504
25th Percentile £563 £503 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £573 £667
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% -14.17% +6.72%
75th Percentile £744 £654 £728
90th Percentile £750 £668 £775
UK median daily rate £700 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +41.99% -24.15% +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 median hourly rate - - £95.00

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Istio falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Istio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Istio trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Istio
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Istio.

Istio daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Istio over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Istio daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (27.78%) nginx
1 5 (27.78%) Traefik
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (38.89%) AWS Fargate
3 7 (38.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (33.33%) Azure
5 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
7 3 (16.67%) Kong
8 2 (11.11%) GitHub
8 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (5.56%) Apigee
9 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 1 (5.56%) Datadog
9 1 (5.56%) GCP
9 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
1 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 6 (33.33%) Redis
3 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (16.67%) Hazelcast
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) GIS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
2 7 (38.89%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) C Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead
7 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Kafka
2 9 (50.00%) Keycloak
3 7 (38.89%) cloud-init
4 6 (33.33%) Spring
5 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
6 3 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (16.67%) J2EE
6 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 2 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (11.11%) HTML
7 2 (11.11%) XML
8 1 (5.56%) Apache Avro
8 1 (5.56%) gRPC
8 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
8 1 (5.56%) JSON
8 1 (5.56%) OAuth
8 1 (5.56%) OpenID
8 1 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (5.56%) RESTful
8 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) CentOS
2 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) Microservices
4 8 (44.44%) Observability
5 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security
5 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (38.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 7 (38.89%) Identity Management
5 7 (38.89%) Secrets Management
5 7 (38.89%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Batch Management
8 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 3 (16.67%) High Availability
9 2 (11.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) Bash
3 10 (55.56%) Go
4 8 (44.44%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) Perl
5 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.11%) C
6 2 (11.11%) C++
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) AWS Certification
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (61.11%) Grafana
2 11 (61.11%) Prometheus
2 11 (61.11%) Terraform
3 8 (44.44%) Consul
3 8 (44.44%) linkerd
4 7 (38.89%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (38.89%) Packer
4 7 (38.89%) Rancher
4 7 (38.89%) ZABBIX
5 5 (27.78%) HAProxy
6 3 (16.67%) Ansible
6 3 (16.67%) Control-M
6 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (16.67%) Puppet
6 3 (16.67%) Rundeck
7 1 (5.56%) Argo
7 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Okta
2 7 (38.89%) Splunk
3 5 (27.78%) Apple
3 5 (27.78%) ESET
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Hitachi
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) New Relic