Argo Contract Job Trends

Argo
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 466 532
Rank change year-on-year +8 +66 +143
Contract jobs citing Argo 157 54 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.46% 1.14% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 37 36
10th Percentile £401 £443 £438
25th Percentile £500 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +10.68% -21.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £719 £710 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £567 £515
% change year-on-year -9.48% +10.10% -21.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £52.38 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,386 4,726 5,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.68% 16.15% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,419 3,167 3,777
10th Percentile £315 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 51 141
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.21 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -8.57%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Argo relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Argo job vacancy trend in the UK

Argo
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Argo.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Argo

Argo
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
England -6 136 £557 -2.37% 42
UK excluding London +4 91 £513 -9.48% 30
Work from Home +10 57 £600 +5.26% 19
London -34 49 £675 +22.73% 14
North of England - 39 £550 - 15
South East -21 37 £483 -14.90% 13
Yorkshire - 18 £511 - 7
North East - 13 £600 - 4
South West -19 8 £648 - 2
Midlands -56 8 £525 +10.53%
West Midlands -56 8 £525 +10.53%
North West - 8 £615 - 4
Scotland - 3 £550 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Wales -9 1 £600 +2.39%

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 84 (53.50%) AWS
1 84 (53.50%) GitHub
2 83 (52.87%) OpenShift
3 52 (33.12%) GitHub Actions
4 51 (32.48%) Azure
5 37 (23.57%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (23.57%) GCP
6 14 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (5.73%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.82%) Cloud Run
11 6 (3.82%) Google Gemini
11 6 (3.82%) IaaS
11 6 (3.82%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.47%) DNS
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.64%) Redis
3 8 (5.10%) Flink
4 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.91%) Big Data
7 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.27%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.64%) MySQL
9 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (36.31%) Jenkins
2 55 (35.03%) GitLab
3 17 (10.83%) Git
4 15 (9.55%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.46%) JIRA
6 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.27%) Gatling
7 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.64%) git-flow
8 1 (0.64%) GoCD
8 1 (0.64%) Gradle
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.64%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) Travis CI
General
1 42 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.74%) Banking
3 18 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.19%) Finance
5 8 (5.10%) Front Office
6 6 (3.82%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (29.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (16.56%) Developer
2 26 (16.56%) Senior
3 19 (12.10%) Architect
4 18 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (10.83%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (10.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) Lead
8 12 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (6.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) Java Developer
12 8 (5.10%) Site Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 30 (19.11%) AngularJS
3 25 (15.92%) Kafka
4 23 (14.65%) React
5 22 (14.01%) Spring
6 19 (12.10%) Node.js
7 16 (10.19%) Quarkus
8 15 (9.55%) Loki
9 14 (8.92%) Spring Boot
10 11 (7.01%) CSS
10 11 (7.01%) HTML
11 10 (6.37%) Vue
12 8 (5.10%) Keycloak
12 8 (5.10%) Ruby on Rails
13 7 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (4.46%) OpenID
14 6 (3.82%) LangChain
15 5 (3.18%) OAuth
15 5 (3.18%) OAuth2
16 4 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (37.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.10%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.82%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
7 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.66%) Linux
2 14 (8.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (80.89%) CI/CD
2 105 (66.88%) DevOps
3 93 (59.24%) Containerisation
4 76 (48.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (36.94%) Agile
6 52 (33.12%) GitOps
7 50 (31.85%) Observability
8 38 (24.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (23.57%) DevSecOps
10 36 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (22.29%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (20.38%) Migration
13 30 (19.11%) Microservices
14 28 (17.83%) Front End Development
14 28 (17.83%) Load Balancing
15 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
16 24 (15.29%) RBAC
17 22 (14.01%) High Availability
18 21 (13.38%) Test Automation
19 20 (12.74%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 99 (63.06%) Python
2 64 (40.76%) Bash
3 48 (30.57%) Java
4 15 (9.55%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.92%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.28%) Go
7 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.10%) Ruby
9 5 (3.18%) Bicep
10 3 (1.91%) Groovy
10 3 (1.91%) SQL
11 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (44.59%) Security Cleared
2 62 (39.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) Degree
3 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) OCP
3 8 (5.10%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.38%) QA
2 6 (3.82%) NCSC
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.27%) PSD2
3 2 (1.27%) SEPA
4 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) SLA
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (38.85%) Docker
2 36 (22.93%) vSphere
3 27 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (17.20%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (92.99%) Kubernetes
2 97 (61.78%) Terraform
3 74 (47.13%) Grafana
4 59 (37.58%) Ansible
5 53 (33.76%) Prometheus
6 27 (17.20%) vCenter Server
7 19 (12.10%) Istio
8 12 (7.64%) Kustomize
9 8 (5.10%) linkerd
10 6 (3.82%) Rancher
11 5 (3.18%) Nagios
11 5 (3.18%) Podman
12 4 (2.55%) Puppet
13 3 (1.91%) Karpenter
14 2 (1.27%) Opsgenie
14 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (42.04%) Red Hat
2 43 (27.39%) VMware
3 34 (21.66%) Splunk
4 26 (16.56%) Pure Storage
5 18 (11.46%) Google
6 3 (1.91%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.27%) Confluent
7 2 (1.27%) F5
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) Qualys
8 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.64%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco
8 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.64%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.64%) Veracode