Argo Contracts in the Thames Valley

Argo
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Argo skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Argo over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 139 145
Rank change year-on-year +40 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Argo 3 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.64% 1.87% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile - £475 £521
25th Percentile - £480 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -27.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £534 £498 £688
90th Percentile £554 £499 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £485 £675
% change year-on-year +3.09% -28.15% +9.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the Thames Valley

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Argo in the Thames Valley

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +28 3 £500 +2.25% 2
Argo
South East

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (66.67%) TACACS
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat