Argo Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Argo
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.31% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £529 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 283 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 33.69% 24.79% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 41 53
10th Percentile £352 £250 £186
25th Percentile £415 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +13.33% -25.50%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £588
90th Percentile £550 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £515 £430
% change year-on-year -6.41% +19.77% -26.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Argo

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 11 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 9 (81.82%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Migration
3 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 7 (63.64%) Load Balancing
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Data Migration
5 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (45.45%) RBAC
6 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (18.18%) GitOps
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Bash
1 9 (81.82%) Python
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) VMware NSX
1 10 (90.91%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
1 10 (90.91%) vCenter Server
2 6 (54.55%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 9 (81.82%) Pure Storage
3 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
4 6 (54.55%) Splunk
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) NetApp
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto