Argo Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Argo
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Argo skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 115 141
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing Argo 2 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 4.23% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile - £458 £526
25th Percentile - £482 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -26.96% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £533 £697
90th Percentile - £625 £731
South East median daily rate £500 £482 £675
% change year-on-year +3.73% -28.59% +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 263 260 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.71% 11.88% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 200 254
10th Percentile £250 £326 £205
25th Percentile £375 £409 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -12.61% +12.75%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £675
90th Percentile £644 £685 £746
South East median daily rate £496 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -0.75% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - £21.60 £30.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -29.75% -20.98%
75th Percentile £83.00 £36.75 -
90th Percentile £86.98 £37.50 £49.20
South East median hourly rate £26.39 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -24.79% -36.21% +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Argo

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 29 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 +8 2 £500 +3.73% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (100.00%) TACACS
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Ceph
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat