Istio Job Trends in the South East

Istio
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 - 385
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Permanent jobs citing Istio 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.014% - 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.35% - 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £91,250 £78,810 £94,819
% change year-on-year +15.78% -16.88% +36.53%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 569 627 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.96% 8.11% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 452 405 1,265
10th Percentile £36,600 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £61,206
% change year-on-year -6.32% +13.36% -9.32%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the South East

Istio
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Istio

Istio
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Berkshire - 2 £62,500 - 2
Thames Valley - 2 £62,500 - 2
Istio
England

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat