Argo Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Argo
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.095% -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.53% 0.57% -
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £481 -
% change year-on-year +9.15% - -

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 243 348 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.38% 16.51% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 225 317
10th Percentile £283 £350 £383
25th Percentile £417 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £776
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £45.31
90th Percentile £58.51 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the City of London

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the City of London

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (36.36%) Slack
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Gradle
2 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium
2 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) git-flow
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Loki
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Application Packaging
5 4 (36.36%) GitOps
5 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (27.27%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (18.18%) Data Science
7 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
7 2 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Cilium
4 1 (9.09%) Istio
4 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI