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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 839 759
Rank change year-on-year +197 -80 +81
Permanent jobs citing Istio 42 46 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.047% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 0.46% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 140
10th Percentile £72,899 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £74,870 £68,718 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £82,500 £68,515
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +20.41% +3.03%
75th Percentile £93,778 £102,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £127,500 £116,000 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,810 £70,576 £68,515
% change year-on-year +11.67% +3.01% +9.62%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Top 9 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 30 April 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 +192 39 £82,031 -13.32% 23
Work from Home +199 30 £78,810 +11.67% 23
London +105 25 £90,000 -7.69% 6
UK excluding London +202 16 £78,810 +11.67% 18
North of England +90 12 £78,810 +11.67% 9
Yorkshire +72 7 £78,810 +11.67% 5
North West - 5 £78,810 - 4
Scotland +120 2 £78,810 +16.26% 1
South West +113 2 £78,810 +1.69% 2

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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
1 3 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 37 (88.10%) GCP
2 22 (52.38%) Azure
3 19 (45.24%) AWS
4 18 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 14 (33.33%) Apigee
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (11.90%) GitHub
9 3 (7.14%) Anthos
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.76%) MinIO
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
11 1 (2.38%) Datadog
11 1 (2.38%) Fastly
11 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) Value-Added Service
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) NAS
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) SNMP
3 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (38.10%) Git
2 16 (38.10%) SonarQube
2 16 (38.10%) Sonatype Nexus
3 14 (33.33%) Maven
4 13 (30.95%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 3 (7.14%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 3 (7.14%) Selenium
6 2 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 30 (71.43%) Finance
2 25 (59.52%) Banking
3 5 (11.90%) Games
4 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.76%) iGaming
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Publishing
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Senior
2 14 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (30.95%) Software Engineer
4 11 (26.19%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Architect
8 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 14 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 13 (30.95%) Spring
4 11 (26.19%) RESTful
5 10 (23.81%) Kafka
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (9.52%) Django
7 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
7 4 (9.52%) Flask
8 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
8 3 (7.14%) HTML
8 3 (7.14%) Playwright
8 3 (7.14%) React
8 3 (7.14%) REST
9 2 (4.76%) CSS
9 2 (4.76%) WebSockets
10 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (2.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 8 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.90%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile Games
4 2 (4.76%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 15 (35.71%) Unix
3 5 (11.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (85.71%) DevOps
2 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 27 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (57.14%) Microservices
5 16 (38.10%) Test Automation
6 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 13 (30.95%) Event-Driven
7 13 (30.95%) Static Application Security Testing
7 13 (30.95%) TDD
7 13 (30.95%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (26.19%) OO
9 8 (19.05%) Incident Response
10 7 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 7 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Open Source
11 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) Python
2 20 (47.62%) Java
3 17 (40.48%) Go
4 14 (33.33%) SQL
5 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (21.43%) Bash
7 5 (11.90%) Groovy
7 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.14%) Ruby
9 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
1 5 (11.90%) CCSP
1 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (11.90%) CISSP
2 3 (7.14%) OCP
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) GDPR
1 5 (11.90%) NIST
1 5 (11.90%) PCI DSS
1 5 (11.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 30 (71.43%) Docker
2 11 (26.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (85.71%) Terraform
3 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Grafana
3 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (16.67%) Argo
5 6 (14.29%) linkerd
5 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (11.90%) CASB
7 3 (7.14%) Consul
7 3 (7.14%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Confluent
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.14%) IBM
4 3 (7.14%) New Relic
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) VMware