Hybrid/Remote Istio Job Trends

Istio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Istio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 417 556
Rank change year-on-year -7 +139 -100
Permanent jobs citing Istio 21 20 9
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.12% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% 0.97% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20 20 7
10th Percentile £54,875 £72,899 £61,250
25th Percentile £55,544 £74,870 £75,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% -21.19% +50.38%
75th Percentile £102,688 £127,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £78,810 £95,250
% change year-on-year -20.70% -17.26% +41.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Istio falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,842 2,058 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.62% 12.45% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,194 2,524
10th Percentile £36,525 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +4.65% -7.86%
75th Percentile £78,000 £86,250 £84,930
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +6.19% -7.41%

Istio
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Istio and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Istio job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Istio
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Istio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Istio

Istio
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Istio over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Istio salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Istio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) GCP
3 13 (61.90%) AWS
3 13 (61.90%) OpenShift
4 8 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (38.10%) Amazon MSK
5 5 (23.81%) Azure AKS
6 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (9.52%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Banking
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 5 (23.81%) Site Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) Loki
3 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (61.90%) Observability
2 13 (61.90%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (52.38%) Containerisation
4 8 (38.10%) GitOps
4 8 (38.10%) Open Source
5 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
8 3 (14.29%) AI
8 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
9 2 (9.52%) AutoML
9 2 (9.52%) Clean Code
9 2 (9.52%) Digital Engineering
9 2 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Go
3 9 (42.86%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
2 8 (38.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (76.19%) Terraform
3 9 (42.86%) Grafana
3 9 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 8 (38.10%) Argo
5 5 (23.81%) Kustomize
6 3 (14.29%) linkerd
7 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (9.52%) Puppet
8 1 (4.76%) Cilium
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Confluent
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft