Argo Contracts in England

Argo
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Argo skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Argo over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 511 620
Rank change year-on-year +68 +109 +120
Contract jobs citing Argo 42 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.083% 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.11% 0.71% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 31
10th Percentile £478 £438 £535
25th Percentile £506 £451 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £489 £675
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -27.56% +11.57%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £775
90th Percentile £685 £703 £850
UK median daily rate £570 £511 £667
% change year-on-year +11.49% -23.35% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in England

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo in England.

Daily rate trend for Argo in England

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in England

Argo
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +44 26 £556 +17.11% 71
South East +42 3 £500 +3.09% 32
Midlands +22 1 £475 +5.56% 22
West Midlands +14 1 £475 +5.56% 13
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) GitHub
3 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.14%) AWS KMS
7 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) BGP
2 2 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.76%) IPv6
2 2 (4.76%) OSPF
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (4.76%) TACACS
2 2 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 13 (30.95%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (19.05%) Big Data
3 8 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.38%) Looker
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) GitLab
2 7 (16.67%) Maven
3 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.14%) Git
5 2 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.76%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) Snyk
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (30.95%) Banking
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Architect
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (14.29%) Kafka
4 4 (9.52%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.38%) JMS
5 1 (2.38%) JPA
5 1 (2.38%) Middleware
5 1 (2.38%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.38%) Quarkus
5 1 (2.38%) Swagger
5 1 (2.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 13 (30.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.76%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (45.24%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Migration
4 15 (35.71%) Observability
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
5 13 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.19%) Microservices
7 8 (19.05%) GitOps
7 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Batch Processing
8 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (9.52%) Scrum
12 3 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps
12 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
12 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Java
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Ceph
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (90.48%) Kubernetes
2 35 (83.33%) Terraform
3 19 (45.24%) Grafana
4 18 (42.86%) Ansible
5 7 (16.67%) Istio
6 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.76%) Cilium
8 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco
2 2 (4.76%) Dell
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
2 2 (4.76%) VMware
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.38%) WSO2