Istio Job Trends in London

Istio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 374 495
Rank change year-on-year -15 +121 +8
Permanent jobs citing Istio 16 17 30
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.075% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.88% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 25
10th Percentile £57,750 £76,008 £75,250
25th Percentile £80,625 £88,125 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,750 £113,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +13.75% +49.25%
75th Percentile £127,500 £127,500 £113,750
90th Percentile £129,750 - £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £78,810 £95,680
% change year-on-year +1.51% -17.63% +39.65%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,859 1,927 3,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.77% 15.95% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 1,388 2,418
10th Percentile £41,723 £41,250 £44,921
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,875 £117,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,813 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +8.50% -7.41%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Istio job vacancy trend in London

Istio
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Istio

Istio
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Istio in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Istio in London

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
1 13 (81.25%) GCP
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
4 8 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Senior
4 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) gRPC
2 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
1 3 (18.75%) VMS
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (68.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (62.50%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) Open Source
5 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) GitOps
6 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (18.75%) Agile
8 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Observability
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (18.75%) Runbook
8 3 (18.75%) Security Patching
9 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
9 2 (12.50%) Microservices
10 1 (6.25%) Line Management
10 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
2 8 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (93.75%) Terraform
3 6 (37.50%) Argo
4 4 (25.00%) Grafana
4 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (18.75%) Ansible
5 3 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (18.75%) linkerd
5 3 (18.75%) Mesos
6 1 (6.25%) Cilium
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Confluent
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle