Istio Job Trends in England

Istio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 638 721
Rank change year-on-year -53 +83 -77
Permanent jobs citing Istio 48 21 45
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.051% 0.048% 0.062%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 33 19 34
10th Percentile £53,750 £74,475 £73,750
25th Percentile £55,725 £74,870 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £78,810 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% -21.19% +43.99%
75th Percentile £92,500 £127,500 £113,750
90th Percentile £127,500 - £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £78,810 £96,500
% change year-on-year -20.70% -18.33% +38.95%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Istio falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,244 5,118 6,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.58% 11.72% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,872 3,106 4,729
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,969 £86,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Istio job vacancy trend in England

Istio
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Istio

Istio
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Istio in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Istio in England

Istio
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -44 15 £95,500 -20.42% 51
North of England -44 13 £62,500 -20.70% 8
North West -11 12 £62,500 -20.70% 5
South East - 9 £57,500 - 2
South West -57 6 - -
Midlands -18 3 £60,000 +44.58% 5
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 4
Yorkshire -29 1 £90,000 +14.20% 3
Istio
UK

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (14.58%) OpenStack
2 4 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) GCP
2 24 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 22 (45.83%) AWS
4 21 (43.75%) Azure
5 11 (22.92%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (20.83%) Amazon MSK
7 9 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (14.58%) PaaS
9 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (10.42%) Azure AKS
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 3 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (6.25%) GitHub
11 3 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) VPN
3 3 (6.25%) BGP
3 3 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.08%) MPLS
5 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.17%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Banking
4 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (14.58%) Administrator
6 7 (14.58%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (14.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.58%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Site Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) Kafka
2 5 (10.42%) Loki
3 4 (8.33%) Node.js
3 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.08%) gRPC
5 1 (2.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (45.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Social Media
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
2 2 (4.17%) VMS
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 32 (66.67%) DevOps
3 27 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (47.92%) Containerisation
4 23 (47.92%) Observability
4 23 (47.92%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (35.42%) Agile
5 17 (35.42%) GitOps
5 17 (35.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (22.92%) AI
7 8 (16.67%) Open Source
7 8 (16.67%) RBAC
8 7 (14.58%) Customer Experience
8 7 (14.58%) ITIL
8 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (14.58%) Time Management
9 6 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
9 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) Go
3 13 (27.08%) Bash
4 3 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 30 (62.50%) Docker
2 8 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (14.58%) Ceph
4 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (97.92%) Kubernetes
2 31 (64.58%) Terraform
3 25 (52.08%) Prometheus
4 24 (50.00%) Argo
5 20 (41.67%) Grafana
6 12 (25.00%) linkerd
7 11 (22.92%) Ansible
8 8 (16.67%) Kustomize
9 7 (14.58%) Check_MK
9 7 (14.58%) Podman
10 4 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (8.33%) Mesos
11 3 (6.25%) Cilium
11 3 (6.25%) Progress Chef
11 3 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (16.67%) Confluent
2 8 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (14.58%) Dell
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle