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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 471 547
Rank change year-on-year +10 +76 +161
Contract jobs citing Argo 148 57 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.40% 1.21% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 38 27
10th Percentile £416 £429 £448
25th Percentile £505 £515 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +10.68% -22.79%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £603
90th Percentile £749 £708 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £577 £515
% change year-on-year -11.10% +11.94% -22.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 -
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 6,154 4,704 5,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.43% 15.33% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,268 3,057 3,965
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £688 £738 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 55 159
10th Percentile £17.31 £16.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £21.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -1.33%
75th Percentile £63.32 £54.25 £61.63
90th Percentile £80.20 £72.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +108.33% -48.03% +5.55%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +14 124 £575 +0.88% 37
UK excluding London 0 73 £513 -11.10% 25
Work from Home +27 59 £600 +5.26% 23
London -20 55 £675 +20.00% 11
South East +1 33 £480 -15.34% 10
North of England - 24 £550 - 11
North East - 11 £600 - 2
Yorkshire - 11 £529 - 6
Midlands - 8 £525 -
West Midlands - 8 £525 -
South West -16 7 £648 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
North West - 2 £538 - 3
Scotland - 2 - -
Wales -2 1 £600 +2.39% 1

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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.35%) Traefik
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 82 (55.41%) AWS
2 77 (52.03%) GitHub
3 75 (50.68%) OpenShift
4 52 (35.14%) GitHub Actions
5 47 (31.76%) Azure
6 38 (25.68%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (23.65%) GCP
8 11 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.73%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.73%) IaaS
13 6 (4.05%) Cloud Run
13 6 (4.05%) Datadog
13 6 (4.05%) Google Gemini
13 6 (4.05%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.03%) Firewall
3 2 (1.35%) Calico
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.54%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.43%) Redis
3 8 (5.41%) Flink
4 6 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.05%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.03%) Big Data
6 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.35%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (34.46%) GitLab
2 48 (32.43%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.16%) Git
4 11 (7.43%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.41%) JIRA
6 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.35%) Gatling
7 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) GoCD
8 1 (0.68%) Gradle
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.16%) Banking
2 18 (12.16%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Front Office
5 6 (4.05%) Retail
6 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (31.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (18.24%) Developer
3 21 (14.19%) Senior
4 20 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (12.84%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Architect
9 15 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (7.43%) Lead
12 9 (6.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 9 (6.08%) Java Developer
12 9 (6.08%) Site Engineer
13 8 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.73%) Python Engineer
14 7 (4.73%) Software Engineer
15 6 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
15 6 (4.05%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.57%) AngularJS
1 26 (17.57%) Kafka
2 24 (16.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (16.22%) React
3 22 (14.86%) Spring
4 19 (12.84%) Node.js
5 18 (12.16%) Loki
6 14 (9.46%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.11%) Quarkus
8 11 (7.43%) CSS
8 11 (7.43%) HTML
9 10 (6.76%) Vue
10 9 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (6.08%) Keycloak
11 8 (5.41%) Ruby on Rails
12 7 (4.73%) OpenID
13 6 (4.05%) .NET
13 6 (4.05%) LangChain
14 5 (3.38%) OAuth
14 5 (3.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.81%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.08%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.65%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) CentOS
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (81.76%) CI/CD
2 97 (65.54%) DevOps
3 83 (56.08%) Containerisation
4 70 (47.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (35.81%) Agile
6 52 (35.14%) Observability
7 48 (32.43%) GitOps
8 39 (26.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 34 (22.97%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (22.30%) DevSecOps
11 32 (21.62%) Microservices
12 31 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.22%) Front End Development
14 23 (15.54%) Migration
14 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
15 18 (12.16%) Load Balancing
16 17 (11.49%) RBAC
16 17 (11.49%) Test Automation
17 16 (10.81%) SDLC
17 16 (10.81%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 91 (61.49%) Python
2 53 (35.81%) Bash
3 47 (31.76%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) Go
4 17 (11.49%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.41%) Ruby
7 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.03%) Groovy
8 3 (2.03%) SQL
9 2 (1.35%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 72 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 63 (42.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Degree
5 5 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.03%) OCP
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) NCSC
3 2 (1.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.35%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) PSD2
3 2 (1.35%) SEPA
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
3 2 (1.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (43.92%) Docker
2 29 (19.59%) vSphere
3 21 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (13.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) etcd
5 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (91.89%) Kubernetes
2 89 (60.14%) Terraform
3 65 (43.92%) Grafana
4 50 (33.78%) Ansible
5 49 (33.11%) Prometheus
6 20 (13.51%) vCenter Server
7 17 (11.49%) Istio
8 12 (8.11%) Kustomize
9 6 (4.05%) linkerd
10 5 (3.38%) Nagios
10 5 (3.38%) Podman
10 5 (3.38%) Rancher
11 3 (2.03%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.03%) Puppet
12 2 (1.35%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (38.51%) Red Hat
2 37 (25.00%) VMware
3 23 (15.54%) Splunk
4 19 (12.84%) Pure Storage
5 18 (12.16%) Google
6 2 (1.35%) Confluent
6 2 (1.35%) F5
6 2 (1.35%) IBM
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.35%) Qualys
7 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.68%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) Intel
7 1 (0.68%) NetApp
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.68%) SAP