Argo Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Argo
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £482 £675
% change year-on-year +3.73% -28.59% +9.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 30 12 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 20.27% 7.79% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 19
10th Percentile £166 £406 £410
25th Percentile £178 £452 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £309 £500 £650
90th Percentile £569 £503 £675
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - -
Median hourly rate £83.32 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +420.72% - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £88.97 - -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oxford - 1 - -
Argo
South East

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform