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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 453 516
Rank change year-on-year -55 +63 +81
Contract jobs citing Argo 174 87 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.89% 1.91% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 51 31
10th Percentile £446 £400 £450
25th Percentile £506 £511 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £656 £630 £635
90th Percentile £688 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.64% +12.82% -16.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £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 6,023 4,550 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 14.01% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,983 2,938 3,080
10th Percentile £313 £280 £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 £608 £600 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 89 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £30.56 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +145.75% -32.61% -28.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.25 £69.56
90th Percentile £87.48 £68.30 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -19.51%

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 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 22 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 -57 144 £568 +3.18% 177
UK excluding London -21 104 £519 -5.64% 78
Work from Home -31 68 £588 +5.62% 73
North of England -28 50 £516 -6.23% 18
London -66 50 £625 +3.52% 106
North East -15 29 £511 -8.09% 6
South East -41 25 £513 +2.50% 20
South West -16 22 £525 -4.55% 14
Yorkshire - 17 £519 - 5
Scotland -16 12 £475 -28.25% 6
East of England - 5 £549 - 12
West Midlands -48 4 £539 +11.66% 3
North West -48 4 - - 7
Midlands -52 4 £539 +11.66% 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 (9.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.40%) AWS
2 61 (35.06%) OpenShift
3 60 (34.48%) GitHub
4 58 (33.33%) Azure
5 51 (29.31%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (25.86%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (21.84%) GCP
8 22 (12.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (9.77%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.62%) OCI
12 13 (7.47%) Kong
13 9 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.60%) Cloudflare
15 7 (4.02%) Akamai
15 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (4.02%) Azure AKS
15 7 (4.02%) Serverless
15 7 (4.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.32%) DNS
2 9 (5.17%) Firewall
3 8 (4.60%) VPN
4 5 (2.87%) HTTP
5 3 (1.72%) SAN
5 3 (1.72%) SSL
6 2 (1.15%) DSL
6 2 (1.15%) NAS
6 2 (1.15%) VSAN
7 1 (0.57%) Calico
7 1 (0.57%) IPsec
7 1 (0.57%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.20%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) Redis
4 7 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.87%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.87%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) MySQL
8 2 (1.15%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.57%) Power Query
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.57%) Tableau
9 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 50 (28.74%) GitLab
2 41 (23.56%) SonarQube
3 37 (21.26%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.62%) Git
5 10 (5.75%) JIRA
6 9 (5.17%) Maven
7 8 (4.60%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.87%) Gradle
8 5 (2.87%) Snyk
9 4 (2.30%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.72%) Selenium
10 3 (1.72%) TestRail
11 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.57%) PVCS
12 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (14.37%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.34%) Finance
4 14 (8.05%) Banking
5 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.15%) Billing
6 2 (1.15%) Front Office
6 2 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (0.57%) Advertising
7 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.57%) German Language
7 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (23.56%) Developer
2 39 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (17.24%) Senior
4 23 (13.22%) Java Developer
4 23 (13.22%) Lead
5 19 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.34%) Architect
6 18 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (7.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (5.75%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (54.02%) Terraform
2 38 (21.84%) AngularJS
3 36 (20.69%) Quarkus
4 30 (17.24%) Kafka
5 22 (12.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.92%) React
7 17 (9.77%) Loki
8 14 (8.05%) OAuth
9 13 (7.47%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.32%) Node.js
11 10 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.75%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.17%) OpenID
13 8 (4.60%) Express.js
13 8 (4.60%) ModSecurity
13 8 (4.60%) pytest
13 8 (4.60%) Spring
14 7 (4.02%) JWT
14 7 (4.02%) SAML
14 7 (4.02%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.30%) Blog
5 4 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.30%) Replication
6 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.15%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.34%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) VMS
3 3 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Windows
4 2 (1.15%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.15%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (64.94%) CI/CD
2 80 (45.98%) GitOps
3 78 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (43.10%) DevOps
5 66 (37.93%) Agile
5 66 (37.93%) Observability
6 61 (35.06%) DevSecOps
7 49 (28.16%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (27.59%) Containerisation
9 46 (26.44%) Software Engineering
10 41 (23.56%) Scrum
11 40 (22.99%) Front End Development
11 40 (22.99%) Test Automation
12 36 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
12 36 (20.69%) Unit Testing
13 35 (20.11%) SDLC
14 32 (18.39%) Sprint Review
15 27 (15.52%) Runbook
15 27 (15.52%) Secrets Management
16 23 (13.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.63%) Python
2 52 (29.89%) Java
3 39 (22.41%) Bash
4 18 (10.34%) Go
5 13 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.75%) SQL
7 9 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.72%) Groovy
10 2 (1.15%) Bicep
10 2 (1.15%) Cypher
10 2 (1.15%) R
10 2 (1.15%) SHACL
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (36.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.45%) Degree
6 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.15%) NCDA
8 2 (1.15%) NCIE
8 2 (1.15%) RHCA
8 2 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
9 1 (0.57%) OCP
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.11%) QA
2 8 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.87%) PSD2
3 5 (2.87%) SEPA
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.30%) NIST
5 2 (1.15%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (28.16%) Docker
2 9 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.30%) vSphere
4 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.15%) Ceph
4 2 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.15%) NFS
4 2 (1.15%) SRDF
4 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 151 (86.78%) Kubernetes
2 60 (34.48%) Grafana
3 38 (21.84%) Prometheus
4 23 (13.22%) Ansible
5 11 (6.32%) Istio
6 9 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.02%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.45%) Cilium
9 4 (2.30%) Packer
9 4 (2.30%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.72%) linkerd
11 2 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.15%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.15%) Nagios
11 2 (1.15%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.15%) Puppet
11 2 (1.15%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.15%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 50 (28.74%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.62%) Oracle
4 14 (8.05%) VMware
5 12 (6.90%) Google
6 11 (6.32%) Dynatrace
6 11 (6.32%) Splunk
7 6 (3.45%) ForgeRock
8 4 (2.30%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.72%) Cisco
9 3 (1.72%) Databricks
9 3 (1.72%) EMC
9 3 (1.72%) Veeam
10 2 (1.15%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.15%) Brocade
10 2 (1.15%) Dell
10 2 (1.15%) IBM
10 2 (1.15%) NetApp
10 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds