Argo Contract Job Trends in the North East

Argo
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.25% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 14.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
England median daily rate £563 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +7.14% -7.49% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 68 42 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 22.08% 14.79% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 14 22
10th Percentile £255 £358 £163
25th Percentile £400 £402 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% +6.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £531
90th Percentile £623 £603 £600
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £36.85 - -
25th Percentile £38.13 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - +301.57%
75th Percentile £47.63 - -
90th Percentile £49.95 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year -5.99% -29.43% +109.57%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the North East

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Argo

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the North East region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 5 £556 - 9
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) GitOps
2 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 8 (80.00%) Validation
3 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Observability
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) SDLC
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Bash
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 8 (80.00%) Istio
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Podman
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk