Argo Contract Job Trends in the North West

Argo
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.080% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £601 - -
England median daily rate £575 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.25% -9.43%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 401 285 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.98% 13.23% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 151 280
10th Percentile £300 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £361 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £664
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.73
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -7.30%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.31% -40.99% +31.94%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the North West

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester - 2 £538 - 1
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform