Argo Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Argo
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 11 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.36% - 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.14% - 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £519
75th Percentile £545 - £597
90th Percentile £571 - £644
England median daily rate £575 £570 £613
% change year-on-year +0.88% -6.94% -5.77%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 514 271 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.63% 10.80% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 173 249
10th Percentile £263 £200 £257
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £569
90th Percentile £650 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.18 £16.24
Median hourly rate £26.25 £12.85 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +104.28% -27.48% -
75th Percentile £46.31 £14.43 £36.36
90th Percentile £64.88 £16.07 £47.54
England median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the Midlands

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
West Midlands - 9 £515 - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) NuGet
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSH
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Parquet
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
3 2 (18.18%) MLflow
3 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) GoCD
4 1 (9.09%) Poetry
4 1 (9.09%) PyCharm
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Avro
3 2 (18.18%) Flask
3 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
3 2 (18.18%) NumPy
3 2 (18.18%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Software Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Coaching
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) SIEM
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) GitOps
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
6 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Groovy
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 6 (54.55%) Ansible
4 4 (36.36%) Istio
5 3 (27.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Cloudera
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft