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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 479 516
Rank change year-on-year -40 +37 +67
Contract jobs citing Argo 170 88 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.80% 1.89% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 52 32
10th Percentile £444 £400 £450
25th Percentile £506 £512 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +9.63% -19.31%
75th Percentile £656 £636 £634
90th Percentile £688 £721 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.27% +12.82% -16.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 0 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.63 - £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 6,062 4,650 4,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 14.09% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,013 3,006 3,099
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.33% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 94 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £64.24 £26.23 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.96% -31.88% -30.00%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.24 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +200.33% -44.44% -16.63%

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 25 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 25 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 -47 140 £575 +4.55% 204
UK excluding London -28 98 £521 -5.27% 78
Work from Home -35 65 £588 +5.62% 84
London -83 52 £625 +2.88% 135
North of England -23 46 £519 -5.64% 18
North East -26 25 £510 -8.31% 6
South East -50 23 £513 +2.50% 18
South West -16 22 £525 -4.55% 14
Yorkshire - 17 £519 - 6
Scotland -19 12 £475 -28.25% 6
East of England - 5 £549 - 11
West Midlands -39 4 £539 +11.66% 3
Midlands -47 4 £539 +11.66% 6
North West -50 4 - - 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 16 (9.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) nginx
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 81 (47.65%) AWS
2 60 (35.29%) GitHub
3 59 (34.71%) Azure
4 55 (32.35%) OpenShift
5 51 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (27.06%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (22.94%) GCP
8 22 (12.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.82%) OCI
12 13 (7.65%) Kong
13 9 (5.29%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.71%) Cloudflare
15 7 (4.12%) Akamai
15 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (4.12%) Azure AKS
15 7 (4.12%) Serverless
15 7 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.06%) DNS
2 10 (5.88%) Firewall
3 9 (5.29%) VPN
4 5 (2.94%) HTTP
5 4 (2.35%) SSL
6 3 (1.76%) SAN
7 2 (1.18%) DSL
7 2 (1.18%) NAS
7 2 (1.18%) VSAN
8 1 (0.59%) Calico
8 1 (0.59%) IPsec
8 1 (0.59%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.41%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.88%) Redis
4 7 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.94%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.76%) MySQL
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.18%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.59%) Power Query
9 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
9 1 (0.59%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (30.00%) GitLab
2 38 (22.35%) Jenkins
3 35 (20.59%) SonarQube
4 16 (9.41%) Git
5 10 (5.88%) JIRA
5 10 (5.88%) Maven
6 8 (4.71%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.94%) Gradle
7 5 (2.94%) Snyk
8 4 (2.35%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.76%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.76%) Selenium
9 3 (1.76%) TestRail
10 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.59%) Mockito
11 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.18%) Finance
4 15 (8.82%) Banking
5 5 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.18%) Billing
6 2 (1.18%) Front Office
6 2 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Advertising
7 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.59%) German Language
7 1 (0.59%) Local Government
7 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (22.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (21.76%) Developer
3 31 (18.24%) Senior
4 23 (13.53%) Lead
5 19 (11.18%) Java Developer
5 19 (11.18%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.59%) Architect
6 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (8.24%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.65%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (7.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (4.71%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (55.88%) Terraform
2 32 (18.82%) AngularJS
3 31 (18.24%) Kafka
4 30 (17.65%) Quarkus
5 22 (12.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (11.18%) React
7 17 (10.00%) Loki
8 15 (8.82%) OAuth
9 13 (7.65%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.47%) Node.js
10 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
11 10 (5.88%) OpenID
11 10 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (5.29%) Spring
13 8 (4.71%) Express.js
13 8 (4.71%) ModSecurity
13 8 (4.71%) pytest
14 7 (4.12%) JWT
14 7 (4.12%) SAML
14 7 (4.12%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.53%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.35%) Blog
5 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.35%) Replication
6 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.76%) PKI
6 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.18%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.18%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) VMS
3 4 (2.35%) Windows
4 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 81 (47.65%) GitOps
3 79 (46.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (43.53%) DevOps
5 67 (39.41%) Observability
6 60 (35.29%) Agile
7 55 (32.35%) DevSecOps
8 50 (29.41%) Containerisation
9 49 (28.82%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (25.29%) Software Engineering
11 37 (21.76%) Test Automation
12 35 (20.59%) Scrum
13 34 (20.00%) Front End Development
14 32 (18.82%) Sprint Planning
15 30 (17.65%) SDLC
15 30 (17.65%) Unit Testing
16 29 (17.06%) Sprint Review
17 27 (15.88%) Runbook
17 27 (15.88%) Secrets Management
18 24 (14.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.06%) Python
2 48 (28.24%) Java
3 39 (22.94%) Bash
4 18 (10.59%) Go
5 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.88%) SQL
7 8 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.76%) Groovy
9 2 (1.18%) Bicep
9 2 (1.18%) C#
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) Cypher
9 2 (1.18%) R
9 2 (1.18%) SHACL
10 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.12%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.53%) Degree
6 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.18%) NCDA
9 2 (1.18%) NCIE
9 2 (1.18%) RHCA
9 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.59%) CISSP
10 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.59%) OCP
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.82%) QA
2 8 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.94%) PSD2
3 5 (2.94%) SEPA
4 4 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.35%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (28.82%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.35%) vSphere
4 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.18%) Ceph
4 2 (1.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.18%) NFS
4 2 (1.18%) SRDF
4 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.59%) iptables
Systems Management
1 147 (86.47%) Kubernetes
2 61 (35.88%) Grafana
3 39 (22.94%) Prometheus
4 24 (14.12%) Ansible
5 11 (6.47%) Istio
6 9 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.12%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.53%) Cilium
9 4 (2.35%) Packer
9 4 (2.35%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.76%) linkerd
10 3 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.76%) Puppet
11 2 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.18%) Nagios
11 2 (1.18%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.18%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.18%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.82%) Oracle
4 14 (8.24%) VMware
5 12 (7.06%) Google
6 11 (6.47%) Dynatrace
6 11 (6.47%) Splunk
7 6 (3.53%) ForgeRock
8 4 (2.35%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.76%) Cisco
9 3 (1.76%) Databricks
9 3 (1.76%) EMC
9 3 (1.76%) Veeam
10 2 (1.18%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.18%) Brocade
10 2 (1.18%) Dell
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 2 (1.18%) NetApp
10 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds