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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 475 542
Rank change year-on-year +15 +67 +162
Contract jobs citing Argo 148 57 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.39% 1.20% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 38 32
10th Percentile £416 £429 £438
25th Percentile £505 £515 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +10.68% -22.79%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £622
90th Percentile £750 £708 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £577 £515
% change year-on-year -10.84% +11.94% -22.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £51.63 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £69.75 £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 6,191 4,744 5,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 15.54% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,296 3,084 3,928
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 54 149
10th Percentile £18.30 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.50 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.11 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +121.88% -48.03% +0.39%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -5 124 £575 +0.88% 29
UK excluding London +5 75 £514 -10.84% 24
Work from Home +35 59 £600 +5.26% 24
London -19 53 £675 +21.35% 6
South East +5 34 £480 -15.34% 8
North of England - 25 £550 - 13
Yorkshire - 13 £522 - 5
North East - 11 £600 - 3
Midlands - 8 £525 -
West Midlands - 8 £525 -
South West -12 7 £648 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
Wales -5 1 £600 +2.39% 1
North West - 1 £575 - 5

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%) Traefik
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 79 (53.38%) AWS
1 79 (53.38%) GitHub
2 78 (52.70%) OpenShift
3 52 (35.14%) GitHub Actions
4 47 (31.76%) Azure
5 36 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (23.65%) GCP
7 11 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (4.73%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.73%) IaaS
12 6 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.05%) Datadog
12 6 (4.05%) Google Gemini
12 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 50 (33.78%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.16%) Git
4 12 (8.11%) 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 40 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.49%) Banking
2 17 (11.49%) 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 43 (29.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (18.24%) Developer
3 21 (14.19%) Senior
4 18 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Architect
5 17 (11.49%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 16 (10.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Lead
8 12 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Site Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Python Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) AngularJS
2 26 (17.57%) Kafka
3 25 (16.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 24 (16.22%) React
5 22 (14.86%) Spring
6 19 (12.84%) Node.js
7 18 (12.16%) Loki
8 14 (9.46%) Spring Boot
9 13 (8.78%) Quarkus
10 11 (7.43%) CSS
10 11 (7.43%) HTML
11 10 (6.76%) Vue
12 9 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (6.08%) Keycloak
13 8 (5.41%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (4.73%) OpenID
15 6 (4.05%) .NET
15 6 (4.05%) LangChain
16 5 (3.38%) OAuth
16 5 (3.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.16%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) 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%) 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%) Private Cloud
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
1 122 (82.43%) CI/CD
2 96 (64.86%) DevOps
3 83 (56.08%) Containerisation
4 71 (47.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (36.49%) Agile
6 52 (35.14%) Observability
7 46 (31.08%) GitOps
8 39 (26.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 34 (22.97%) DevSecOps
10 32 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (20.27%) Microservices
13 25 (16.89%) Front End Development
14 23 (15.54%) Migration
14 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
15 20 (13.51%) Load Balancing
16 18 (12.16%) RBAC
16 18 (12.16%) Test Automation
17 17 (11.49%) SDLC
17 17 (11.49%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 92 (62.16%) Python
2 55 (37.16%) Bash
3 47 (31.76%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) Go
5 16 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 15 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.41%) Ruby
8 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.03%) Groovy
9 3 (2.03%) SQL
10 2 (1.35%) C#
11 1 (0.68%) Bicep
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 72 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 64 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Degree
5 5 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.70%) OCP
6 4 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) 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 31 (20.95%) vSphere
3 22 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (14.86%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) etcd
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (91.89%) Kubernetes
2 88 (59.46%) Terraform
3 66 (44.59%) Grafana
4 52 (35.14%) Ansible
5 49 (33.11%) Prometheus
6 22 (14.86%) 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 59 (39.86%) Red Hat
2 39 (26.35%) VMware
3 24 (16.22%) Splunk
4 21 (14.19%) 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