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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 116 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Argo 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.046% 0.042% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.38% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% - -
England median daily rate £525 £540 £625
% change year-on-year -2.78% -13.60% +1.63%

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 307 266 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.14% 11.17% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 187 313
10th Percentile £266 £213 £319
25th Percentile £350 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.34% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £576 £586
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 49
10th Percentile £17.52 £27.88 £17.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.67 £22.41
Median hourly rate £62.95 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% - +112.03%
75th Percentile £64.63 £48.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £82.78 £76.38 £64.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.50 £49.63
% change year-on-year +29.87% -22.42% +115.76%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the North West

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 7 September 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 - 1 £500 - 2
Argo
England

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform