Argo Contract Job Trends in Central London

Argo
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.65% 0.13% -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.48% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £484 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% - -
75th Percentile £615 £482 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £610 £675 £568
% change year-on-year -9.63% +18.94% -12.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 268 372 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.42% 16.00% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 242 342
10th Percentile £282 £350 £351
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £731 £751 £778
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £19.52 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £21.50 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £29.06 - £45.31
90th Percentile £47.91 - £49.63
London median hourly rate £34.75 £27.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.70% -55.00% +140.00%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Central London

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in Central London over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in Central London

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +17 11 £525 +9.15% 8
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Argo
London

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (8.33%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (33.33%) Slack
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) Gradle
2 4 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) git-flow
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Loki
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (8.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (41.67%) GitOps
5 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Application Packaging
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (25.00%) AI
8 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
8 2 (16.67%) Open Source
8 2 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
8 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Kustomize
5 1 (8.33%) Cilium
5 1 (8.33%) Istio
5 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAI