Argo Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Argo
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.54% 0.30% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.52% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £648 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 132 79 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.48% 23.58% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 51 61
10th Percentile £279 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £461 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £738
90th Percentile £700 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £41.30 - £18.88
25th Percentile £49.25 - £30.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £70.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.05%
75th Percentile £75.75 - £78.00
90th Percentile £83.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +437.50% -74.40% -3.85%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Argo

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Cheltenham +5 1 - - 1
Gloucester - 1 £575 -
Argo
South West

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Rancher