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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 471 536
Rank change year-on-year -18 +65 +98
Contract jobs citing Argo 157 55 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.33% 1.17% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 38 35
10th Percentile £396 £451 £438
25th Percentile £503 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -25.04%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £565
90th Percentile £682 £675 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £497
% change year-on-year +2.80% +0.70% -25.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
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 6,749 4,694 5,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.33% 15.72% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,616 3,142 3,844
10th Percentile £325 £305 £298
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% -6.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £499 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -0.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 51 101
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £22.36 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.90 £78.70 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -7.78%

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 20 June 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 20 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

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 20 June 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 -3 138 £525 - 38
UK excluding London +2 116 £514 +2.80% 28
North of England - 61 £514 - 10
Work from Home -20 57 £534 -5.53% 20
South East -38 27 £513 +2.50% 9
London -72 27 £670 +25.47% 11
Yorkshire - 27 £514 -
North East - 26 £511 - 4
South West - 23 £525 - 5
North West - 8 £633 - 6
Midlands -53 6 £532 +11.89% 3
West Midlands -54 6 £532 +11.89% 1
Scotland -4 5 £553 -18.15% 1
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 3 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) nginx
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 81 (51.59%) OpenShift
2 55 (35.03%) GitHub
3 54 (34.39%) AWS
4 39 (24.84%) Azure
5 34 (21.66%) GCP
6 32 (20.38%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (19.11%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (14.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.82%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.18%) Cloud Run
13 5 (3.18%) Kong
14 4 (2.55%) Apigee
14 4 (2.55%) Figma
14 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.29%) DNS
2 8 (5.10%) VPN
3 6 (3.82%) Firewall
4 3 (1.91%) SAN
5 2 (1.27%) NAS
5 2 (1.27%) VSAN
6 1 (0.64%) Calico
6 1 (0.64%) DSL
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) IPsec
6 1 (0.64%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.01%) Redis
3 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.82%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (30.57%) GitLab
1 48 (30.57%) Jenkins
2 40 (25.48%) SonarQube
3 8 (5.10%) Git
4 7 (4.46%) JIRA
5 6 (3.82%) Maven
6 4 (2.55%) Gradle
6 4 (2.55%) Snyk
7 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.27%) Gatling
7 2 (1.27%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (16.56%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.55%) Banking
3 15 (9.55%) Finance
4 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.27%) Military
5 1 (0.64%) Advertising
5 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (29.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (21.02%) Senior
3 30 (19.11%) Developer
4 22 (14.01%) Java Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Architect
6 18 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.19%) Java Engineer
8 15 (9.55%) Lead
9 13 (8.28%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (7.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Backend Developer
14 7 (4.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (24.20%) AngularJS
1 38 (24.20%) Quarkus
2 26 (16.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (11.46%) Kafka
4 12 (7.64%) React
5 11 (7.01%) Node.js
6 9 (5.73%) OAuth
6 9 (5.73%) OAuth2
6 9 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.10%) Express.js
8 7 (4.46%) OpenID
8 7 (4.46%) Spring
9 6 (3.82%) Apache Avro
9 6 (3.82%) Loki
10 5 (3.18%) JWT
11 4 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (2.55%) Spring WebFlux
11 4 (2.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (31.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.46%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Blog
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.01%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.55%) VMS
4 2 (1.27%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (63.69%) CI/CD
2 83 (52.87%) DevOps
3 70 (44.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (40.13%) Agile
4 63 (40.13%) Containerisation
5 59 (37.58%) GitOps
6 47 (29.94%) DevSecOps
7 45 (28.66%) Observability
8 41 (26.11%) Front End Development
8 41 (26.11%) Platform Engineering
9 39 (24.84%) Software Engineering
10 38 (24.20%) Sprint Planning
11 37 (23.57%) Test Automation
12 36 (22.93%) Scrum
12 36 (22.93%) Unit Testing
13 34 (21.66%) SDLC
14 32 (20.38%) Sprint Review
15 29 (18.47%) High Availability
15 29 (18.47%) Migration
16 25 (15.92%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 55 (35.03%) Python
2 51 (32.48%) Java
3 45 (28.66%) Bash
4 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.37%) Go
6 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) Bicep
7 6 (3.82%) SQL
8 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) Cypher
10 1 (0.64%) R
10 1 (0.64%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 54 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 49 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) OCP
3 9 (5.73%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.91%) Degree
7 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) RHCA
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.27%) NCDA
8 2 (1.27%) NCIE
8 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.29%) QA
2 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) PSD2
3 4 (2.55%) SEPA
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (22.93%) Docker
2 22 (14.01%) vSphere
3 20 (12.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.10%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.27%) Ceph
6 2 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 2 (1.27%) SRDF
6 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) iptables
Systems Management
1 144 (91.72%) Kubernetes
2 85 (54.14%) Terraform
3 64 (40.76%) Grafana
4 44 (28.03%) Prometheus
5 41 (26.11%) Ansible
6 21 (13.38%) vCenter Server
7 14 (8.92%) Istio
8 10 (6.37%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.10%) Kustomize
10 5 (3.18%) Cilium
11 4 (2.55%) linkerd
11 4 (2.55%) Nagios
11 4 (2.55%) Puppet
12 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.27%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.27%) Rancher
13 2 (1.27%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.27%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 64 (40.76%) Red Hat
2 29 (18.47%) VMware
3 21 (13.38%) Pure Storage
3 21 (13.38%) Splunk
4 8 (5.10%) Google
5 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle
6 3 (1.91%) Veeam
7 2 (1.27%) 3PAR
7 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.27%) Brocade
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco
7 2 (1.27%) Confluent
7 2 (1.27%) Dell
7 2 (1.27%) EMC
7 2 (1.27%) IBM
7 2 (1.27%) NetApp
7 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.64%) F5