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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 467 528
Rank change year-on-year -39 +61 +75
Contract jobs citing Argo 180 81 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.05% 1.80% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 49 29
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £504 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -0.90% -16.54%
75th Percentile £655 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £525 £482
% change year-on-year -1.14% +8.92% -25.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 5,896 4,488 4,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.99% 13.89% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,930 2,918 3,134
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 81 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -21.05% -29.30%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.70 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £48.23 £39.25
% change year-on-year +31.63% +22.87% -15.01%

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 4 September 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
Top 14 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 4 September 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 -20 151 £555 +5.71% 190
UK excluding London -4 113 £519 -1.14% 77
Work from Home -28 70 £600 +11.63% 78
North of England -25 59 £511 -7.05% 17
London -75 49 £625 +8.23% 133
North East -14 31 £511 -8.09% 2
South East -50 24 £513 +2.50% 22
South West -23 23 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire - 21 £519 - 3
Scotland -13 12 £475 -28.25% 9
North West -40 7 £375 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -46 5 £563 +28.39% 1
Midlands -49 5 £563 +28.39% 1
East of England - 5 £549 - 10

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 15 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.00%) AWS
2 66 (36.67%) GitHub
3 64 (35.56%) OpenShift
4 60 (33.33%) Azure
5 52 (28.89%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (25.56%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (20.56%) GCP
8 23 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (12.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 18 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.33%) OCI
12 13 (7.22%) Kong
13 9 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.44%) Cloudflare
14 8 (4.44%) Serverless
15 7 (3.89%) Akamai
15 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.44%) DNS
2 10 (5.56%) Firewall
3 8 (4.44%) VPN
4 5 (2.78%) HTTP
5 3 (1.67%) SAN
5 3 (1.67%) SSL
6 2 (1.11%) DSL
6 2 (1.11%) NAS
6 2 (1.11%) VSAN
7 1 (0.56%) Calico
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.44%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.00%) Redis
4 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.78%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.11%) MySQL
8 2 (1.11%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.56%) Power Query
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (28.89%) GitLab
2 43 (23.89%) SonarQube
3 40 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.78%) Git
5 9 (5.00%) JIRA
5 9 (5.00%) Maven
6 8 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.78%) Gradle
7 5 (2.78%) Snyk
8 4 (2.22%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.11%) Selenium
9 2 (1.11%) TestRail
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.44%) Public Sector
3 17 (9.44%) Finance
4 14 (7.78%) Banking
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.11%) Billing
6 2 (1.11%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Advertising
7 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.56%) Front Office
7 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (22.22%) Developer
3 30 (16.67%) Senior
4 26 (14.44%) Lead
5 23 (12.78%) Java Developer
6 21 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (10.56%) Architect
7 19 (10.56%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (8.89%) Java Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (7.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Backend Developer
13 8 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (56.11%) Terraform
2 40 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 38 (21.11%) Quarkus
4 30 (16.67%) Kafka
5 28 (15.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.56%) React
7 17 (9.44%) Loki
8 14 (7.78%) OAuth
9 13 (7.22%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.11%) Node.js
11 10 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (5.00%) OpenID
12 9 (5.00%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.44%) Express.js
13 8 (4.44%) ModSecurity
14 7 (3.89%) JWT
14 7 (3.89%) pytest
14 7 (3.89%) SAML
14 7 (3.89%) Spring
14 7 (3.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.22%) Blog
5 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.22%) Replication
6 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.11%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.11%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.56%) Linux
2 5 (2.78%) VMS
3 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.67%) Windows
5 2 (1.11%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 83 (46.11%) DevOps
3 82 (45.56%) GitOps
4 81 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (38.33%) Agile
6 67 (37.22%) Observability
7 65 (36.11%) DevSecOps
8 54 (30.00%) Containerisation
9 48 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (26.67%) Software Engineering
10 43 (23.89%) Scrum
11 42 (23.33%) Front End Development
12 41 (22.78%) Test Automation
13 38 (21.11%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (21.11%) Unit Testing
14 37 (20.56%) SDLC
15 34 (18.89%) Sprint Review
16 27 (15.00%) Runbook
16 27 (15.00%) Secrets Management
17 24 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.22%) Python
2 52 (28.89%) Java
3 46 (25.56%) Bash
4 18 (10.00%) Go
5 13 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.56%) SQL
7 9 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.67%) Bicep
9 2 (1.11%) Cypher
9 2 (1.11%) Groovy
9 2 (1.11%) R
9 2 (1.11%) SHACL
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.33%) Degree
6 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.22%) OCP
7 4 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.11%) NCDA
9 2 (1.11%) NCIE
9 2 (1.11%) RHCA
9 2 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) GSEC
10 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.00%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.78%) PSD2
3 5 (2.78%) SEPA
4 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) NIST
5 2 (1.11%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (27.22%) Docker
2 13 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.00%) vSphere
4 7 (3.89%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.11%) Ceph
6 2 (1.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.11%) NFS
6 2 (1.11%) SRDF
6 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 158 (87.78%) Kubernetes
2 67 (37.22%) Grafana
3 40 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 28 (15.56%) Ansible
5 12 (6.67%) Istio
6 9 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (5.00%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.33%) Cilium
9 3 (1.67%) linkerd
9 3 (1.67%) Packer
9 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.67%) Puppet
10 2 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.11%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.11%) Nagios
10 2 (1.11%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.11%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.11%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 57 (31.67%) Red Hat
2 18 (10.00%) VMware
3 16 (8.89%) Splunk
4 15 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.33%) Oracle
5 11 (6.11%) Dynatrace
6 10 (5.56%) Google
7 9 (5.00%) Pure Storage
8 6 (3.33%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.67%) Cisco
9 3 (1.67%) Databricks
9 3 (1.67%) EMC
9 3 (1.67%) Veeam
10 2 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.11%) Brocade
10 2 (1.11%) Confluent
10 2 (1.11%) Dell
10 2 (1.11%) NetApp
10 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds