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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 476 522
Rank change year-on-year -27 +46 +86
Contract jobs citing Argo 181 82 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.06% 1.79% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 50 31
10th Percentile £401 £400 £450
25th Percentile £504 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £547 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +6.12% -22.79%
75th Percentile £650 £615 £635
90th Percentile £688 £676 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -1.14% +6.49% -21.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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 5,912 4,579 4,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.99% 13.96% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,950 2,975 3,188
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £421 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 80 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £64.24 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +114.13% -17.05% -37.69%
75th Percentile £71.11 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.83 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +14.79% +40.13% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -20 152 £546 +3.98% 31
UK excluding London -6 119 £519 -1.14% 23
Work from Home -24 68 £610 +16.19% 23
North of England -12 63 £516 -6.23% 11
London -69 45 £625 +8.70% 12
North East -21 30 £511 -8.09% 2
South East -45 26 £513 +2.50% 7
South West -20 22 £525 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire - 22 £461 - 1
Scotland -7 13 £513 -22.58%
North West -38 11 £633 +26.55% 8
West Midlands -46 5 £563 +28.39%
Midlands -50 5 £563 +28.39%
East of England - 5 £549 -

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 (8.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.30%) AWS
2 67 (37.02%) GitHub
3 62 (34.25%) OpenShift
4 60 (33.15%) Azure
5 53 (29.28%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (27.07%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (21.55%) GCP
8 25 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (13.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (9.94%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.73%) OCI
11 13 (7.18%) Kong
12 10 (5.52%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.97%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.42%) Cloudflare
14 8 (4.42%) Serverless
15 7 (3.87%) Akamai
15 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (3.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.94%) DNS
2 10 (5.52%) Firewall
3 8 (4.42%) VPN
4 5 (2.76%) HTTP
5 3 (1.66%) SAN
5 3 (1.66%) SSL
6 2 (1.10%) DSL
6 2 (1.10%) NAS
6 2 (1.10%) VSAN
7 1 (0.55%) Calico
7 1 (0.55%) IPsec
7 1 (0.55%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.39%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.52%) Redis
4 8 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.76%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.76%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) MySQL
8 2 (1.10%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.55%) Power Query
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.55%) Tableau
9 1 (0.55%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 54 (29.83%) GitLab
2 43 (23.76%) SonarQube
3 42 (23.20%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.73%) Git
5 9 (4.97%) JIRA
5 9 (4.97%) Maven
6 8 (4.42%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.76%) Gradle
7 5 (2.76%) Snyk
8 3 (1.66%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.55%) Selenium
10 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 29 (16.02%) Public Sector
2 27 (14.92%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.39%) Finance
4 16 (8.84%) Banking
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.10%) Billing
6 2 (1.10%) Military
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 48 (26.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.55%) Developer
3 31 (17.13%) Senior
4 25 (13.81%) Lead
5 22 (12.15%) Java Developer
6 20 (11.05%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (10.50%) Architect
8 18 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.84%) Java Engineer
9 16 (8.84%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (8.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 9 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.97%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 8 (4.42%) Backend Developer
14 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (56.35%) Terraform
2 40 (22.10%) AngularJS
3 38 (20.99%) Quarkus
4 30 (16.57%) Kafka
5 28 (15.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.50%) React
7 15 (8.29%) Loki
8 14 (7.73%) OAuth
9 13 (7.18%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.08%) Node.js
11 10 (5.52%) OpenID
11 10 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.97%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.42%) Express.js
14 7 (3.87%) JWT
14 7 (3.87%) ModSecurity
14 7 (3.87%) SAML
14 7 (3.87%) Spring
14 7 (3.87%) WebSockets
15 6 (3.31%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.31%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.21%) Blog
5 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.21%) Replication
6 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.66%) PKI
6 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.10%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Linux
2 5 (2.76%) VMS
3 4 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.66%) Windows
5 2 (1.10%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (66.30%) CI/CD
2 86 (47.51%) GitOps
3 85 (46.96%) DevOps
4 83 (45.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (38.67%) Agile
6 65 (35.91%) DevSecOps
6 65 (35.91%) Observability
7 55 (30.39%) Containerisation
8 49 (27.07%) Platform Engineering
9 47 (25.97%) Software Engineering
10 43 (23.76%) Scrum
11 42 (23.20%) Front End Development
12 41 (22.65%) Test Automation
13 38 (20.99%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (20.99%) Unit Testing
14 37 (20.44%) SDLC
15 34 (18.78%) Sprint Review
16 32 (17.68%) Secrets Management
17 25 (13.81%) Runbook
18 23 (12.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.57%) Python
2 53 (29.28%) Java
3 46 (25.41%) Bash
4 17 (9.39%) Go
5 13 (7.18%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.18%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.52%) SQL
7 9 (4.97%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.31%) Bicep
9 2 (1.10%) Cypher
9 2 (1.10%) Groovy
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) SHACL
9 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.55%) C#
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 67 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 63 (34.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.52%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.87%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.87%) Degree
6 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.76%) OCP
6 5 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.10%) NCDA
9 2 (1.10%) NCIE
9 2 (1.10%) RHCA
9 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.55%) CISM
10 1 (0.55%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.78%) QA
2 8 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.76%) PSD2
3 5 (2.76%) SEPA
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (27.62%) Docker
2 14 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.97%) vSphere
4 7 (3.87%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.10%) Ceph
6 2 (1.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.10%) NFS
6 2 (1.10%) SRDF
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.55%) iptables
Systems Management
1 159 (87.85%) Kubernetes
2 70 (38.67%) Grafana
3 44 (24.31%) Prometheus
4 28 (15.47%) Ansible
5 15 (8.29%) Istio
6 9 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.97%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.87%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.31%) Cilium
9 5 (2.76%) linkerd
10 3 (1.66%) Packer
10 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.66%) Puppet
11 2 (1.10%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.10%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.10%) Nagios
11 2 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.10%) Rancher
11 2 (1.10%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.10%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 56 (30.94%) Red Hat
2 20 (11.05%) Splunk
3 19 (10.50%) VMware
4 16 (8.84%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.73%) Oracle
6 11 (6.08%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.52%) Google
8 9 (4.97%) Pure Storage
9 6 (3.31%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.66%) Cisco
10 3 (1.66%) Databricks
10 3 (1.66%) EMC
10 3 (1.66%) Veeam
11 2 (1.10%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.10%) Brocade
11 2 (1.10%) Confluent
11 2 (1.10%) Dell
11 2 (1.10%) NetApp
11 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds