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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 350 392
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 +93
Contract jobs citing Argo 17 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 1.12% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £380 £450 £431
25th Percentile £432 £458 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £658
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -25.02% -1.13%
75th Percentile £614 £528 £688
90th Percentile £662 £625 £716
UK median daily rate £550 £497 £667
% change year-on-year +10.78% -25.56% -3.86%

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 2,269 2,317 3,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.83% 12.62% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 1,687 2,220
10th Percentile £235 £250 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £640 £658 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 42 105
10th Percentile £18.11 £17.26 £16.84
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.13% -15.01% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 3 August 2025.

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 3 August 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
North of England -4 6 £563 +14.10% 10
North East - 6 £563 - 2
Midlands -5 5 £402 -10.67% 1
Scotland -6 4 £662 +3.44% 1
South East +10 3 £500 +3.73% 5
West Midlands -4 3 £402 -10.67% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
South West +22 1 £550 -9.09% 2
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 4 (23.53%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) OpenShift
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 4 (23.53%) Slack
5 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) SSH
2 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) BGP
3 2 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (11.76%) IPv6
3 2 (11.76%) OSPF
3 2 (11.76%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 2 (11.76%) TACACS
3 2 (11.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) JIRA
4 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
4 4 (23.53%) Terragrunt
5 3 (17.65%) MLflow
6 2 (11.76%) GitLab
6 2 (11.76%) Poetry
6 2 (11.76%) PyCharm
6 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Keycloak
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Avro
2 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (17.65%) Flask
2 3 (17.65%) NumPy
2 3 (17.65%) Pandas
2 3 (17.65%) YAML
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) GitOps
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (58.82%) Migration
3 9 (52.94%) Secrets Management
4 8 (47.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (35.29%) Validation
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Architecture Roadmap
7 4 (23.53%) Coaching
7 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
7 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
8 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Groovy
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (76.47%) Istio
3 11 (64.71%) Terraform
4 7 (41.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft