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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 501 581
Rank change year-on-year +49 +80 +191
Contract jobs citing Argo 112 57 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.05% 1.08% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 35 28
10th Percentile £401 £450 £418
25th Percentile £513 £482 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% -8.72%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £695
90th Percentile £680 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% -18.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £51.50 £62.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 - -

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 5,468 5,277 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.33% 14.16% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 3,439 4,924
10th Percentile £300 £312 £320
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £678 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.82% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.82 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.25 £34.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% -36.74% +124.80%
75th Percentile £62.44 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.33 £74.66 £78.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £34.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.09% -26.38% +112.03%

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 October 2025.

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 16 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 October 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
England +38 88 £563 +7.14% 127
Work from Home +54 47 £588 +5.86% 90
London +29 45 £610 -6.15% 55
UK excluding London +7 44 £550 +12.82% 108
South East +10 14 £513 +6.33% 45
North of England -16 14 £563 +14.10% 34
North East - 10 £563 - 9
Midlands - 6 £482 - 9
South West +13 4 £649 +3.84% 8
West Midlands - 4 £482 - 2
Scotland - 4 £662 - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North West -11 2 £538 +9.03% 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
East Midlands - 2 - - 7
Wales - 1 £600 - 6

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 10 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.68%) Traefik
4 2 (1.79%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.89%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.00%) AWS
2 43 (38.39%) OpenShift
3 36 (32.14%) GCP
4 34 (30.36%) GitHub
5 31 (27.68%) Azure
6 18 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (13.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (11.61%) Amazon S3
10 9 (8.04%) Slack
11 7 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (6.25%) IaaS
11 7 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.46%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.57%) Datadog
15 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
16 2 (1.79%) IBM Cloud
16 2 (1.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.50%) DNS
2 5 (4.46%) Firewall
3 3 (2.68%) SSH
3 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.79%) Calico
4 2 (1.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.89%) 4G
5 1 (0.89%) 5G
5 1 (0.89%) STUN
5 1 (0.89%) VLAN
5 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.04%) Big Data
2 9 (8.04%) Hadoop
3 6 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Parquet
5 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.79%) Redis
6 2 (1.79%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.89%) Flink
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.89%) GitLab
3 22 (19.64%) Git
4 8 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.36%) JIRA
6 5 (4.46%) Gradle
7 4 (3.57%) Maven
7 4 (3.57%) Selenium
7 4 (3.57%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.68%) MLflow
9 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.79%) Poetry
9 2 (1.79%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.89%) git-flow
10 1 (0.89%) Robot Framework
General
1 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.82%) Finance
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Banking
6 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.89%) iGaming
8 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.18%) Developer
3 13 (11.61%) Senior
4 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Lead
7 8 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (4.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) Node.js
2 13 (11.61%) React
3 12 (10.71%) Loki
4 11 (9.82%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.82%) CSS
4 11 (9.82%) HTML
4 11 (9.82%) Spring
5 10 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (8.93%) Keycloak
5 10 (8.93%) Vue
6 8 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
7 7 (6.25%) Kafka
8 4 (3.57%) Flask
9 3 (2.68%) .NET
9 3 (2.68%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.68%) NumPy
9 3 (2.68%) Pandas
9 3 (2.68%) YAML
10 2 (1.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.57%) Replication
5 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.04%) Linux
2 15 (13.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.79%) SUSE
4 1 (0.89%) CentOS
4 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (89.29%) CI/CD
2 66 (58.93%) DevOps
3 55 (49.11%) Containerisation
4 52 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (34.82%) GitOps
6 33 (29.46%) Observability
7 29 (25.89%) Migration
8 28 (25.00%) Agile
9 23 (20.54%) Microservices
9 23 (20.54%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (13.39%) Test Automation
13 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (11.61%) Secrets Management
14 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.71%) Incident Response
15 11 (9.82%) Computer Science
15 11 (9.82%) Mentoring
16 10 (8.93%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.93%) Python
2 38 (33.93%) Bash
3 28 (25.00%) Java
4 14 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.82%) Go
6 8 (7.14%) Ruby
7 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.46%) Groovy
9 3 (2.68%) SQL
10 2 (1.79%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 46 (41.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.82%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (47.32%) Docker
2 13 (11.61%) vSphere
3 12 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.89%) etcd
Systems Management
1 102 (91.07%) Kubernetes
2 72 (64.29%) Terraform
3 32 (28.57%) Ansible
3 32 (28.57%) Grafana
4 21 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 20 (17.86%) Istio
6 9 (8.04%) Kustomize
7 7 (6.25%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.68%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.79%) Cilium
9 2 (1.79%) Consul
9 2 (1.79%) logstash
9 2 (1.79%) Podman
10 1 (0.89%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.89%) linkerd
10 1 (0.89%) Packer
10 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 19 (16.96%) Google
3 15 (13.39%) VMware
4 10 (8.93%) Splunk
5 7 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.25%) Pure Storage
6 4 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.57%) SAP
7 3 (2.68%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.79%) IBM
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle
9 1 (0.89%) Confluent
9 1 (0.89%) Nokia
9 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.89%) Virgin Media