Istio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 663 736
Rank change year-on-year -73 +73 -76
Permanent jobs citing Istio 51 23 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.046% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.42% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 34 21 39
10th Percentile £53,750 - £64,500
25th Percentile £55,725 £74,870 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £78,810 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% -19.17% +40.39%
75th Percentile £90,625 £127,500 £113,750
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.87% +12.59% +0.80%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,931 5,465 7,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 10.94% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,282 3,280 4,982
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% -8.33%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Istio job vacancy trend in the UK

Istio
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Istio

Istio
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Istio over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -57 51 £62,500 -20.70% 11
UK excluding London -71 31 £60,000 -23.87% 5
Work from Home -12 25 £62,500 -20.70% 5
London -31 18 £95,250 -20.63% 7
North of England -30 13 £62,500 -20.70% 3
North West +8 12 £62,500 -20.70% 1
South East - 9 £57,500 - 2
South West -62 6 - -
Midlands -31 3 £60,000 +44.58%
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -31 1 £90,000 +14.20% 2

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (13.73%) OpenStack
2 4 (7.84%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) GCP
2 24 (47.06%) OpenShift
3 23 (45.10%) AWS
4 22 (43.14%) Azure
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (19.61%) Amazon MSK
7 9 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (13.73%) PaaS
9 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (11.76%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (5.88%) GitHub
10 3 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (1.96%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) VPN
3 3 (5.88%) BGP
3 3 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.96%) MPLS
5 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Law
6 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Administrator
5 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Site Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) Kafka
2 5 (9.80%) Loki
3 4 (7.84%) Node.js
3 4 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (7.84%) RESTful
4 3 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.96%) gRPC
6 1 (1.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (49.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.73%) Social Media
3 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.92%) VMS
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 33 (64.71%) DevOps
3 30 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (50.98%) Observability
4 26 (50.98%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (49.02%) Containerisation
6 18 (35.29%) GitOps
7 17 (33.33%) Agile
7 17 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (23.53%) AI
9 10 (19.61%) Open Source
9 10 (19.61%) RBAC
10 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (13.73%) Customer Experience
10 7 (13.73%) ITIL
10 7 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (13.73%) Time Management
11 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (11.76%) Load Balancing
11 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Go
3 16 (31.37%) Bash
4 3 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (1.96%) Bicep
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) CISM
4 2 (3.92%) CISSP
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) GSEC
4 2 (3.92%) OSCP
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 31 (60.78%) Docker
2 8 (15.69%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (13.73%) Ceph
4 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (98.04%) Kubernetes
2 34 (66.67%) Terraform
3 28 (54.90%) Prometheus
4 27 (52.94%) Argo
5 23 (45.10%) Grafana
6 14 (27.45%) linkerd
7 11 (21.57%) Ansible
8 9 (17.65%) Kustomize
9 7 (13.73%) Check_MK
9 7 (13.73%) Podman
10 4 (7.84%) Cilium
10 4 (7.84%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (7.84%) Mesos
11 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
11 3 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 10 (19.61%) Google
3 8 (15.69%) Confluent
4 7 (13.73%) Dell
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle