Argo Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Argo
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 100 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +14
Contract jobs citing Argo 14 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.05% 0.56% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.36% 4.55% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £433 £458 £524
25th Percentile £463 £470 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £482 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -22.88% +1.63%
75th Percentile £539 £497 £697
90th Percentile £558 £513 £736
South East median daily rate £506 £482 £638
% change year-on-year +5.03% -24.39% +11.84%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Argo falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 220 198 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.57% 12.34% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 145 196
10th Percentile £255 £350 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -1.11% +1.62%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £650
90th Percentile £627 £687 £700
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £17.79 - -
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £49.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.79%
75th Percentile £20.47 - £63.91
90th Percentile £38.00 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year -33.82% -29.75% +44.48%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Argo relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Argo job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in Berkshire

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -5 12 £513 +6.33% 2
Reading - 4 £500 - 1
Argo
South East

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 14 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Site Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 8 (57.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Management
2 8 (57.14%) Observability
2 8 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 6 (42.86%) RBAC
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) GitOps
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Bash
1 14 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) vSphere
2 12 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (42.86%) Docker
3 6 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Grafana
2 8 (57.14%) Kustomize
2 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 6 (42.86%) Ansible
3 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (92.86%) Red Hat
3 6 (42.86%) Pure Storage