Istio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Istio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Istio over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 856 696
Rank change year-on-year +162 -160 +118
Permanent jobs citing Istio 28 51 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.048% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 0.53% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25 41 156
10th Percentile £72,899 £65,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £74,870 £73,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £95,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +41.48% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £113,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £127,500 £122,500 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,810 £77,500 £68,007
% change year-on-year +1.69% +13.96% +8.81%

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 6,063 9,610 12,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.05% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,315 6,732 8,647
10th Percentile £32,533 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.60% +3.52%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Istio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Istio in the UK

Istio
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Istio.

Salary trend for Istio in the UK

Istio
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Istio over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 2025. 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 +147 25 £78,810 -19.17% 18
Work from Home +144 20 £78,810 -19.52% 8
London +95 14 £120,000 +20.00% 12
UK excluding London +156 13 £78,810 +1.69% 9
North of England +63 8 £78,810 +3.60% 3
Yorkshire +47 5 £74,870 -20.89% 1
North West - 3 £78,810 -
South West +99 2 £78,810 +1.69% 2
Scotland +77 2 £78,810 +21.25% 3
West Midlands - 1 £41,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £41,500 - 1

Istio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) nginx
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 26 (92.86%) GCP
2 15 (53.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 14 (50.00%) Azure
4 13 (46.43%) AWS
5 11 (39.29%) Apigee
6 7 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (21.43%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
8 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (10.71%) GitHub
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
10 1 (3.57%) CloudFront
10 1 (3.57%) Fastly
10 1 (3.57%) Kong
10 1 (3.57%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) NAS
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
2 3 (10.71%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) SNMP
2 3 (10.71%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) Calico
3 1 (3.57%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
1 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 14 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 14 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 11 (39.29%) JUnit
2 11 (39.29%) Maven
3 3 (10.71%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 24 (85.71%) Finance
2 21 (75.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) iGaming
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Senior
2 11 (39.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Software Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 6 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 12 (42.86%) Spring
1 12 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 11 (39.29%) RESTful
3 6 (21.43%) Kafka
4 4 (14.29%) Django
4 4 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 4 (14.29%) Flask
5 3 (10.71%) Playwright
6 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.14%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) React
6 2 (7.14%) REST
7 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (3.57%) CSS
7 1 (3.57%) JPA
7 1 (3.57%) Middleware
7 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile Games
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 11 (39.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 17 (60.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (57.14%) Microservices
4 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 11 (39.29%) Event-Driven
5 11 (39.29%) OO
5 11 (39.29%) Software Engineering
5 11 (39.29%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (39.29%) TDD
5 11 (39.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
6 9 (32.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (21.43%) Open Source
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Observability
9 3 (10.71%) Chaos Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Cloud Operations
9 3 (10.71%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) Go
3 12 (42.86%) Java
3 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 11 (39.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) OCP
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 25 (89.29%) Docker
2 6 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 28 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (92.86%) Terraform
3 7 (25.00%) Grafana
3 7 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
5 3 (10.71%) Argo
5 3 (10.71%) HAProxy
5 3 (10.71%) linkerd
5 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Confluent
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) IBM
3 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.71%) F5
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) VMware