Argo Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Argo
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Argo 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.25% - 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.48% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £640 - £382
25th Percentile £649 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 - £470
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.24%
75th Percentile £669 - £526
90th Percentile £672 - £554
UK median daily rate £576 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +6.22% -9.58% -9.77%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 271 284 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.03% 15.80% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 177 178
10th Percentile £276 £198 £363
25th Percentile £425 £350 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £575
90th Percentile £650 £555 £641
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.55 £36.36
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -56.59% +214.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £72.60
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £35.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -22.33% -29.84% +100.00%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Scotland

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Argo

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Glasgow - 4 £662 - 1
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Istio
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform