Argo Contract Job Trends in London

Argo
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 335 372
Rank change year-on-year -42 +37 +100
Contract jobs citing Argo 35 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 1.17% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 8
10th Percentile £539 £402 -
25th Percentile £619 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -30.00%
75th Percentile £794 £638 £663
90th Percentile £817 £705 £824
England median daily rate £525 £565 £485
% change year-on-year -7.04% +16.44% -29.45%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,454 1,973 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.82% 15.81% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 1,354 1,569
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £431 £438 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 35
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £18.67
25th Percentile £32.00 £27.73 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.38 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% +65.43% -62.80%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.22 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
% change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -53.20%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Argo job vacancy trend in London

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in London

Argo
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Central London -14 4 - - 7
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) GitHub
2 21 (60.00%) AWS
3 18 (51.43%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (40.00%) GCP
6 11 (31.43%) Azure
7 9 (25.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (17.14%) Cloud Run
8 6 (17.14%) Google Gemini
8 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
8 6 (17.14%) Stackdriver
9 5 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
10 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
11 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (5.71%) CloudFront
11 2 (5.71%) Datadog
11 2 (5.71%) Pulumi
12 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) BigQuery
2 5 (14.29%) Flink
3 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Redis
5 2 (5.71%) Big Data
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.71%) Hazelcast
5 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (48.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (45.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Gatling
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) git-flow
General
1 14 (40.00%) Banking
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Retail
5 5 (14.29%) Front Office
5 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 8 (22.86%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) Architect
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Kafka Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Lead
8 3 (8.57%) Python Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (28.57%) Spring
2 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 9 (25.71%) Kafka
4 8 (22.86%) React
5 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
5 6 (17.14%) LangChain
5 6 (17.14%) Node.js
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.57%) OpenID
7 2 (5.71%) Apache Avro
7 2 (5.71%) JSON
7 2 (5.71%) Micronaut
7 2 (5.71%) Quarkus
8 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.86%) Flash
8 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) CI/CD
1 29 (82.86%) DevOps
2 21 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (54.29%) Containerisation
4 16 (45.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 14 (40.00%) Microservices
6 13 (37.14%) GitOps
6 13 (37.14%) Observability
6 13 (37.14%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) Clean Code
7 9 (25.71%) Front End Development
8 8 (22.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (20.00%) Agile
9 7 (20.00%) AI
10 6 (17.14%) Generative AI
10 6 (17.14%) Open Source
10 6 (17.14%) Open Source Development
10 6 (17.14%) SDLC
11 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
11 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Java
3 6 (17.14%) Go
4 5 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) OCP
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) PSD2
1 4 (11.43%) SEPA
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.71%) vSphere
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (94.29%) Kubernetes
2 27 (77.14%) Terraform
3 11 (31.43%) Grafana
4 8 (22.86%) Istio
4 8 (22.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (17.14%) Ansible
6 2 (5.71%) Nagios
6 2 (5.71%) Opsgenie
6 2 (5.71%) Rancher
6 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.86%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Confluent
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Pure Storage
3 2 (5.71%) Qualys
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.86%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Intel
4 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.86%) Veracode