Argo Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Argo
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.68% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £392 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 - £650

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 155 59 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.20% 8.15% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 32 77
10th Percentile £360 £181 £313
25th Percentile £450 £281 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.31% -17.95%
75th Percentile £543 £532 £530
90th Percentile £618 £589 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +3.00% +14.29% -8.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 £12.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +361.82% -77.85% +210.38%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in Birmingham

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Parquet
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (40.00%) MLflow
3 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) Poetry
4 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (40.00%) Flask
3 2 (40.00%) NumPy
3 2 (40.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat