Argo Contracts in the UK excluding London

Argo
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Argo skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Argo over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 438 492
Rank change year-on-year +69 +54 -56
Contract jobs citing Argo 22 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.53% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 24
10th Percentile £462 £593 £506
25th Percentile £475 £650 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £667 £665
Median % change year-on-year -23.35% +0.30% +18.22%
75th Percentile £526 £676 £800
90th Percentile £624 £693 -
UK median daily rate £511 £667 £695
% change year-on-year -23.35% -4.03% +6.92%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Argo is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,331 3,594 4,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 15.04% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,634 3,021
10th Percentile £210 £281 £233
25th Percentile £374 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 136 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -10.37%
75th Percentile £49.06 £65.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £70.63 £75.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the UK excluding London

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Argo in the UK excluding London

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK excluding London

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Wales - 11 £515 -
South East +23 7 £485 -28.15% 4
South West +24 2 £500 -25.93%
Scotland +30 1 £640 -4.05%
Midlands - 1 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) GitHub
2 13 (59.09%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (36.36%) OpenShift
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) MySQL
2 7 (31.82%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Snyk
2 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Migration Manager
1 11 (50.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 11 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 7 (31.82%) Site Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Containerisation
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 12 (54.55%) Migration
4 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
4 11 (50.00%) SDLC
5 10 (45.45%) GitOps
6 7 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (31.82%) Task Automation
7 6 (27.27%) Change Management
7 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
7 6 (27.27%) ITSM
7 6 (27.27%) Microservices
7 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
9 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (9.09%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 2 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (9.09%) Bicep
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Degree
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Istio
3 7 (31.82%) Grafana
3 7 (31.82%) Kibana
3 7 (31.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (18.18%) Terraform
5 1 (4.55%) linkerd
5 1 (4.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat