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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 483 572
Rank change year-on-year +31 +89 +127
Contract jobs citing Argo 136 54 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.17% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.30% 1.15% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 33 20
10th Percentile £416 £435 £463
25th Percentile £506 £524 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year - +2.91% -16.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £746 £805 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £586 £517
% change year-on-year -10.41% +13.35% -22.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £49.23 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £69.75 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,908 4,703 5,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.66% 15.03% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,100 3,035 4,020
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 62 166
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £21.10 £22.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +21.53%
75th Percentile £63.32 £56.56 £63.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £73.60 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +19.95%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -8 112 £575 -1.88% 39
UK excluding London +7 62 £525 -10.41% 27
Work from Home +29 54 £600 +6.67% 28
London +9 54 £675 +17.39% 16
South East -5 29 £485 - 17
North of England - 17 £575 - 7
North East - 12 £600 -
Midlands - 7 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £525 - 1
South West -12 6 £648 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - - 2
North West - 2 £538 - 5
Scotland - 2 - -
Wales -3 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 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.21%) Confluence
4 2 (1.47%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.47%) Traefik
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 79 (58.09%) AWS
2 65 (47.79%) OpenShift
3 64 (47.06%) GitHub
4 49 (36.03%) GitHub Actions
5 44 (32.35%) Azure
6 35 (25.74%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (25.00%) GCP
8 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
8 10 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.15%) IaaS
11 7 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (4.41%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.68%) Google Gemini
13 5 (3.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.56%) DNS
2 4 (2.94%) Firewall
3 2 (1.47%) Calico
4 1 (0.74%) 4G
4 1 (0.74%) 5G
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.74%) STUN
4 1 (0.74%) VLAN
4 1 (0.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.09%) Redis
3 9 (6.62%) Flink
4 6 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.68%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.94%) Big Data
6 4 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.74%) MySQL
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (35.29%) GitLab
2 36 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.97%) Git
4 8 (5.88%) JIRA
4 8 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.47%) Gatling
5 2 (1.47%) Gradle
6 1 (0.74%) git-flow
6 1 (0.74%) GoCD
6 1 (0.74%) Maven
6 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.50%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Banking
4 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.88%) Front Office
6 5 (3.68%) Retail
6 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (30.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (18.38%) Developer
3 17 (12.50%) Senior
4 16 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 15 (11.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (11.03%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (10.29%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.35%) Architect
9 10 (7.35%) Lead
10 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Site Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Kafka Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Python Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.32%) Kafka
2 22 (16.18%) AngularJS
3 21 (15.44%) React
3 21 (15.44%) Spring
4 19 (13.97%) Loki
4 19 (13.97%) Node.js
5 17 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.82%) Keycloak
8 11 (8.09%) CSS
8 11 (8.09%) HTML
9 10 (7.35%) Vue
10 9 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (6.62%) Quarkus
11 8 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (4.41%) .NET
12 6 (4.41%) OpenID
13 5 (3.68%) LangChain
14 4 (2.94%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.94%) Replication
7 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.74%) Linux
2 15 (11.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) CentOS
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (84.56%) CI/CD
2 83 (61.03%) DevOps
3 71 (52.21%) Containerisation
4 67 (49.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (35.29%) GitOps
6 47 (34.56%) Observability
7 46 (33.82%) Agile
8 37 (27.21%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (25.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 32 (23.53%) Microservices
11 28 (20.59%) DevSecOps
12 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.97%) Front End Development
13 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering
14 18 (13.24%) Migration
15 15 (11.03%) Test Automation
16 13 (9.56%) AI
16 13 (9.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (9.56%) Incident Response
17 12 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (63.97%) Python
2 47 (34.56%) Bash
3 44 (32.35%) Java
4 19 (13.97%) Go
5 17 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.88%) Ruby
8 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.21%) Groovy
9 3 (2.21%) SQL
10 2 (1.47%) C#
10 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (44.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.15%) Degree
5 5 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) OCP
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) NCSC
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) PSD2
3 2 (1.47%) SEPA
3 2 (1.47%) SLA
3 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (45.59%) Docker
2 19 (13.97%) vSphere
3 16 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.74%) etcd
5 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (92.65%) Kubernetes
2 79 (58.09%) Terraform
3 57 (41.91%) Grafana
4 45 (33.09%) Ansible
4 45 (33.09%) Prometheus
5 20 (14.71%) Istio
6 12 (8.82%) Kustomize
7 10 (7.35%) vCenter Server
8 7 (5.15%) linkerd
9 5 (3.68%) Rancher
10 4 (2.94%) Nagios
11 3 (2.21%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.21%) Podman
12 2 (1.47%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.47%) Puppet
13 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (39.71%) Red Hat
2 27 (19.85%) VMware
3 20 (14.71%) Splunk
4 17 (12.50%) Google
5 9 (6.62%) Pure Storage
6 3 (2.21%) Confluent
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Qualys
8 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco
8 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.74%) Intel
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.74%) NetApp
8 1 (0.74%) Nokia
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle
8 1 (0.74%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.74%) SAP