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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 332 381
Rank change year-on-year +40 +49 +127
Contract jobs citing Istio 23 9 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.068% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 0.53% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 34
10th Percentile £402 £493 £504
25th Percentile £448 £497 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £520 £667
Median % change year-on-year +27.31% -22.04% +3.41%
75th Percentile £738 £605 £747
90th Percentile - £666 £775
UK median daily rate £590 £493 £650
% change year-on-year +19.68% -24.15% +4.00%

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 1,609 1,704 3,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.88% 12.91% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,226 2,567
10th Percentile £363 £359 £375
25th Percentile £414 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £683 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 69
10th Percentile £39.45 £40.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.75 £48.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £50.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.80% -20.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £55.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £56.50 £78.29
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 4 August 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.70%) Camunda
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) OpenShift
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Kong
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) Datadog
6 2 (8.70%) Slack
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) SSH
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) Redis
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (13.04%) Hazelcast
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Big Data
4 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.70%) GIS
4 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) MLflow
4 2 (8.70%) Poetry
4 2 (8.70%) PyCharm
4 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) Terragrunt
4 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.35%) Snyk
5 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) C Software Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) C/C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Keycloak
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (13.04%) J2EE
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
4 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) Flask
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) NumPy
4 2 (8.70%) Pandas
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.70%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) OpenID
5 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) BYOD
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
1 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (47.83%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) GitOps
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
5 6 (26.09%) Digital Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Secrets Management
6 5 (21.74%) Validation
6 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (13.04%) Batch Management
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) Bash
3 7 (30.43%) Go
3 7 (30.43%) Java
4 6 (26.09%) C
4 6 (26.09%) C++
5 3 (13.04%) Perl
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.35%) CCSP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISM
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) GRC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (52.17%) Terraform
3 10 (43.48%) Argo
4 9 (39.13%) Ansible
5 5 (21.74%) Grafana
5 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (13.04%) Control-M
6 3 (13.04%) linkerd
6 3 (13.04%) Progress Chef
6 3 (13.04%) Puppet
6 3 (13.04%) Rundeck
7 1 (4.35%) Consul
7 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Red Hat
2 6 (26.09%) Hitachi
3 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) Zscaler