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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 487 566
Rank change year-on-year +39 +79 +174
Contract jobs citing Argo 55 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.14% 0.092%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.28% 1.02% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 29
10th Percentile £401 £438 £473
25th Percentile £500 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% -24.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £596 £619 £775
90th Percentile £625 £693 -
UK median daily rate £550 £497 £667
% change year-on-year +10.78% -25.56% -4.71%

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 4,304 4,515 6,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.50% 13.47% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 3,243 4,881
10th Percentile £300 £300 £338
25th Percentile £406 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £572
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -8.22% -0.52%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £688
90th Percentile £695 £700 £770
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 66 151
10th Percentile £19.88 £20.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.90 £25.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.08 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.77% -33.18% +133.33%
75th Percentile £66.04 £65.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.78 £74.22 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +27 35 £550 -8.33% 48
North of England -3 6 £563 +14.10% 10
North East - 6 £563 - 2
Midlands -4 5 £402 -10.67% 1
South East +5 3 £500 +3.73% 5
West Midlands -4 3 £402 -10.67% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
South West +24 1 £550 -9.09% 2
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 13 (23.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Mattermost
3 1 (1.82%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) AWS
1 20 (36.36%) GCP
2 16 (29.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 12 (21.82%) GitHub
4 10 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 10 (18.18%) Azure
5 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (16.36%) OpenShift
6 4 (7.27%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 3 (5.45%) Slack
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.64%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
3 3 (5.45%) SSH
3 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.64%) BGP
4 2 (3.64%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.64%) IPv6
4 2 (3.64%) OSPF
4 2 (3.64%) SAN
4 2 (3.64%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (3.64%) SSL
4 2 (3.64%) TACACS
4 2 (3.64%) VSAN
5 1 (1.82%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (23.64%) Hadoop
3 11 (20.00%) Big Data
4 9 (16.36%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
6 6 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.45%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Parquet
8 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (34.55%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.45%) GitLab
3 7 (12.73%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.45%) Git
4 3 (5.45%) Gradle
4 3 (5.45%) Maven
4 3 (5.45%) MLflow
4 3 (5.45%) Selenium
5 2 (3.64%) Poetry
5 2 (3.64%) PyCharm
5 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.82%) git-flow
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
6 1 (1.82%) Snyk
General
1 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Banking
3 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.82%) iGaming
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Developer
5 3 (5.45%) GCP DevOps
5 3 (5.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (10.91%) Keycloak
3 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.27%) Kafka
4 4 (7.27%) YAML
5 3 (5.45%) Apache Avro
5 3 (5.45%) Flask
5 3 (5.45%) NumPy
5 3 (5.45%) Pandas
6 2 (3.64%) Node.js
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.82%) LDAP
7 1 (1.82%) Loki
7 1 (1.82%) Middleware
7 1 (1.82%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Linux
2 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.64%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (87.27%) CI/CD
2 31 (56.36%) DevOps
3 24 (43.64%) GitOps
4 23 (41.82%) Containerisation
4 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (34.55%) Migration
6 16 (29.09%) Observability
7 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (20.00%) Agile
9 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 9 (16.36%) Microservices
11 8 (14.55%) Analytics
12 7 (12.73%) Batch Processing
12 7 (12.73%) Secrets Management
13 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (10.91%) Validation
14 5 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Python
2 16 (29.09%) Bash
3 4 (7.27%) Go
4 3 (5.45%) Groovy
4 3 (5.45%) Java
4 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.45%) SQL
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Ceph
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (94.55%) Kubernetes
2 42 (76.36%) Terraform
3 21 (38.18%) Ansible
4 13 (23.64%) Grafana
5 11 (20.00%) Istio
6 4 (7.27%) Cilium
7 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.82%) Packer
8 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (14.55%) Google
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco
5 2 (3.64%) Dell
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.82%) VMware