Argo Contract Job Trends in the South East

Argo
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Argo skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 170 205
Rank change year-on-year +8 +35 +56
Contract jobs citing Argo 3 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.087% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.60% 2.30% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 10
10th Percentile £404 £450 £511
25th Percentile £440 £456 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -28.59% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £508 £697
90th Percentile - £616 £764
England median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +1.63%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 502 652 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.61% 14.43% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 490 502
10th Percentile £250 £299 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £650
90th Percentile £636 £675 £738
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 26
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £30.00 £42.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -34.25% +14.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £40.25 £73.26
90th Percentile £84.33 £53.90 £76.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £51.25
% change year-on-year -24.21% -9.89% +114.35%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the South East

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the South East over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the South East

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire +9 2 £500 +3.73% 4
Thames Valley +8 2 £500 +1.42% 4
Hampshire +11 1 £384 -14.67%
Argo
England

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) IPv6
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (66.67%) TACACS
2 2 (66.67%) VSAN
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
2 1 (33.33%) Poetry
2 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Ceph
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudera