Argo Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Argo
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £616 - -
25th Percentile £629 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £633 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 120 72 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.18% 17.02% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 46
10th Percentile £330 £274 £336
25th Percentile £358 £353 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -14.14% +9.27%
75th Percentile £519 £558 £565
90th Percentile £630 £638 £583
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £16.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.61 £17.49
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -58.55%
75th Percentile £16.50 £81.38 -
90th Percentile - £86.15 £17.74
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.91% +115.00% -52.94%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 4 £651 - 1
Argo
North West

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft