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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 433 414
Rank change year-on-year +72 -19 +220
Permanent jobs citing Istio 1 13 43
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% 0.075% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.073% 0.55% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 36
10th Percentile - £76,727 £44,612
25th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.69% +15.72%
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £96,539
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £100,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year -32.50% +7.78% +33.59%

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 1,364 2,366 3,192
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.91% 13.69% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,422 2,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.06% -5.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform