Argo Contracts in the UK excluding London

Argo
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 381 437
Rank change year-on-year +52 +56 +53
Contract jobs citing Argo 5 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.11% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.94% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 17
10th Percentile £478 £462 £593
25th Percentile - £475 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £667
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -23.35% +0.30%
75th Percentile £567 £526 £676
90th Percentile £578 £624 £693
UK median daily rate £570 £511 £667
% change year-on-year +11.49% -23.35% -4.03%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,346 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.79% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,702 2,640
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £623
90th Percentile £659 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 76 137
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £34.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.01% -21.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £49.23 £49.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.61 £70.63 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +156.81%

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
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 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
South East +36 3 £500 +3.09% 15
West Midlands +16 1 £475 +5.56% 4
Midlands +14 1 £475 +5.56% 6
Wales -3 1 £586 +13.79%
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 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (40.00%) TACACS
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Snyk
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Ceph
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Istio
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft