Istio Job Trends in the North of England

Istio
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 295 395
Rank change year-on-year -27 +100 -78
Permanent jobs citing Istio 9 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.045% 0.12% 0.010%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.97% 0.71% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £53,750 £70,097 £59,705
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,899 £64,888
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £76,840 £76,069
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +1.01% +15.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £82,751 £88,543
90th Percentile £76,750 - £94,501
England median annual salary £65,000 £78,810 £95,859
% change year-on-year -17.52% -17.79% +42.01%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 927 1,417 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.61% 17.09% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 726 496 1,052
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £39,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £69,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the North of England

Istio
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Istio

Istio
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Istio in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Istio in the North of England

Istio
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
North West +6 8 £62,500 -20.70% 1
Yorkshire -43 1 £90,000 +20.21%
Istio
England

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (44.44%) Secure Coding
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
6 2 (22.22%) AI
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 2 (22.22%) AutoML
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) linkerd
3 5 (55.56%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Grafana
4 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (22.22%) Puppet
6 1 (11.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft