Argo Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Argo
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 15 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.98% - 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.83% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £460
75th Percentile £519 - £465
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% -28.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 72 25 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 14.31% 8.06% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 19 37
10th Percentile £173 £330 £338
25th Percentile £281 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £563 £568 £623
90th Percentile - £589 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £475
% change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £59.50 - £50.85
25th Percentile £60.00 - £52.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -50.44% -
75th Percentile £69.38 - £63.13
90th Percentile £70.00 - £65.75
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £23.99 £38.50
% change year-on-year +150.16% -37.70% -34.47%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Argo job vacancy trend in Surrey

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Argo

Argo
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Argo.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Argo

Argo
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Argo in Surrey over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in Surrey

Argo
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Guildford - 13 £513 - 4
Staines - 2 - -
Argo
South East

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 13 (86.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (6.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
1 8 (53.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) AngularJS
1 13 (86.67%) Quarkus
2 2 (13.33%) Loki
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
1 13 (86.67%) DevSecOps
1 13 (86.67%) Unit Testing
2 12 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 12 (80.00%) Scrum
2 12 (80.00%) SDLC
2 12 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (73.33%) Sprint Planning
3 11 (73.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) GitOps
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Red Hat