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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 851 731
Rank change year-on-year +158 -120 +98
Permanent jobs citing Istio 37 48 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.048% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 0.49% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 31 42 151
10th Percentile £72,899 £65,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £74,870 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £92,319 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +32.93% +4.43%
75th Percentile £103,750 £103,438 £77,715
90th Percentile £127,500 £116,000 £84,056
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,810 £70,576 £69,447
% change year-on-year +11.67% +1.62% +11.12%

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 5,643 9,849 14,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 9.88% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 7,089 9,045
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +135 34 £78,810 -17.04% 19
Work from Home +145 27 £78,810 -17.63% 16
London +104 21 £107,500 +7.50% 7
UK excluding London +176 15 £78,810 +11.67% 14
North of England +50 11 £78,810 +11.67% 8
Yorkshire +65 6 £76,840 +8.88% 5
North West - 5 £78,810 - 2
Scotland +110 2 £78,810 +16.26% 1
South West +109 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 (8.11%) Confluence
1 3 (8.11%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 34 (91.89%) GCP
2 21 (56.76%) Azure
3 18 (48.65%) AWS
4 17 (45.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 13 (35.14%) Apigee
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (16.22%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
8 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
9 3 (8.11%) Anthos
9 3 (8.11%) GitHub
10 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
11 1 (2.70%) Datadog
11 1 (2.70%) dbt
11 1 (2.70%) Fastly
11 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Network Security
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) NAS
3 2 (5.41%) SAN
3 2 (5.41%) SNMP
3 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.70%) BGP
4 1 (2.70%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (40.54%) Git
2 15 (40.54%) SonarQube
2 15 (40.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 13 (35.14%) Maven
4 12 (32.43%) JUnit
5 3 (8.11%) CircleCI
5 3 (8.11%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (8.11%) JIRA
5 3 (8.11%) Selenium
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
General
1 28 (75.68%) Finance
2 23 (62.16%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Games
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) iGaming
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Publishing
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Senior
2 13 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) Software Engineer
4 11 (29.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (16.22%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Architect
9 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Spring Boot
2 13 (35.14%) Hibernate
2 13 (35.14%) Spring
3 11 (29.73%) RESTful
4 8 (21.62%) Kafka
5 4 (10.81%) Django
5 4 (10.81%) FastAPI
5 4 (10.81%) Flask
6 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (8.11%) Playwright
7 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.41%) HTML
7 2 (5.41%) React
7 2 (5.41%) REST
8 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (2.70%) CSS
8 1 (2.70%) JPA
8 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile Games
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Linux
2 12 (32.43%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (56.76%) Microservices
4 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
5 13 (35.14%) Containerisation
5 13 (35.14%) Software Engineering
6 12 (32.43%) Event-Driven
6 12 (32.43%) Static Application Security Testing
6 12 (32.43%) TDD
6 12 (32.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 11 (29.73%) OO
8 8 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (16.22%) Incident Response
10 6 (16.22%) Observability
10 6 (16.22%) Open Source
11 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
12 4 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (83.78%) Python
2 17 (45.95%) Go
2 17 (45.95%) Java
3 13 (35.14%) SQL
4 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.22%) Bash
6 3 (8.11%) Groovy
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) CCSP
1 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.11%) CISSP
1 3 (8.11%) OCP
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) GDPR
1 3 (8.11%) NIST
1 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
1 3 (8.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 28 (75.68%) Docker
2 9 (24.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 37 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (91.89%) Terraform
3 9 (24.32%) Grafana
3 9 (24.32%) Prometheus
4 8 (21.62%) Ansible
5 7 (18.92%) Argo
6 6 (16.22%) Progress Chef
7 5 (13.51%) linkerd
8 3 (8.11%) CASB
8 3 (8.11%) Consul
8 3 (8.11%) Puppet
9 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Confluent
1 7 (18.92%) Google
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.11%) IBM
3 3 (8.11%) New Relic
4 2 (5.41%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) VMware