Istio Contracts

Istio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Istio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Istio over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 533 598
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 -34
Contract jobs citing Istio 47 150 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% 1.70% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 101 170
10th Percentile £364 £500 £513
25th Percentile £456 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £547 £688 £700
90th Percentile £638 £738 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -25.85% +4.00% +25.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Istio is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Istio.

Daily rate trend for Istio in the UK

Istio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Istio over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Istio in the UK

Istio
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Istio within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 44 £489 -24.77% 9
UK excluding London +40 36 £482 -25.85% 2
South East +29 23 £466 -18.60% 1
Work from Home +66 8 £573 -14.17% 5
London +2 8 £569 -15.74% 7
South West +11 6 £625 +4.17%
North of England +18 5 £520 -13.33% 1
Yorkshire +19 3 £520 +4.00%
North West +15 2 - - 1
Scotland +22 1 £640 -4.05%
Midlands +22 1 £450 -
West Midlands +13 1 £450 -

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 5 (10.64%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 2 (4.26%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) OpenShift
2 19 (40.43%) GCP
3 14 (29.79%) AWS
4 13 (27.66%) Azure
5 5 (10.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (8.51%) Anthos
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) Slack
9 1 (2.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
1 6 (12.77%) VPN
2 2 (4.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.66%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.26%) MySQL
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.13%) Bigtable
5 1 (2.13%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.13%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) Redis
5 1 (2.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) Spinnaker
3 4 (8.51%) Artifactory
3 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.38%) JIRA
5 2 (4.26%) JUnit
6 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.13%) Gradle
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (2.13%) PVCS
6 1 (2.13%) Snyk
6 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Site Engineer
1 15 (31.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Junior
6 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Senior
7 1 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) Kafka
2 5 (10.64%) YAML
3 2 (4.26%) Bazel
3 2 (4.26%) cloud-init
3 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.26%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.26%) JPA
3 2 (4.26%) Loki
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) OAuth
3 2 (4.26%) React
3 2 (4.26%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
3 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.26%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) J2EE
4 1 (2.13%) OpenID
4 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (53.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.26%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) CentOS
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) DevOps
2 25 (53.19%) Containerisation
3 22 (46.81%) GitOps
4 19 (40.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
6 17 (36.17%) Collaborative Working
7 16 (34.04%) Microservices
8 15 (31.91%) Agile
9 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (27.66%) Task Automation
11 12 (25.53%) Incident Response
12 11 (23.40%) ITSM
13 10 (21.28%) Change Management
13 10 (21.28%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
14 8 (17.02%) Migration
14 8 (17.02%) Performance Optimisation
15 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
15 7 (14.89%) Time Management
15 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) Java
3 6 (12.77%) Bash
3 6 (12.77%) Go
4 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (91.49%) Kubernetes
2 20 (42.55%) Grafana
3 18 (38.30%) Prometheus
3 18 (38.30%) Terraform
4 16 (34.04%) Argo
5 12 (25.53%) Kibana
6 7 (14.89%) Rancher
7 3 (6.38%) Ansible
7 3 (6.38%) linkerd
7 3 (6.38%) Puppet
8 2 (4.26%) Consul
8 2 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (4.26%) Graphite
8 2 (4.26%) HAProxy
8 2 (4.26%) Kiali
8 2 (4.26%) Packer
8 2 (4.26%) Podman
8 2 (4.26%) ZABBIX
9 1 (2.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Google
2 9 (19.15%) VMware
3 6 (12.77%) Splunk
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.26%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.13%) SAP