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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 471 527
Rank change year-on-year -26 +56 +72
Contract jobs citing Argo 178 87 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.97% 1.90% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 53 29
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £501 £510 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.35% -16.54%
75th Percentile £654 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £718 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.64% +12.82% -22.00%
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 5,985 4,583 4,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 13.92% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 2,976 3,140
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £88.98 £70.93 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +157.06% -35.86% -18.09%

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 13 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 13 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 -24 149 £550 +1.23% 139
UK excluding London -11 109 £519 -5.64% 53
Work from Home -39 69 £588 +5.62% 118
North of England -24 54 £511 -7.05% 13
London -77 50 £625 +4.17% 94
North East -20 29 £511 -8.09% 3
South East -40 25 £513 +2.50% 20
South West -20 23 £525 -4.55% 7
Yorkshire - 20 £519 - 4
Scotland -16 12 £475 -28.25% 4
Midlands -45 5 £563 +18.53% 1
West Midlands -46 5 £563 +18.53% 1
North West -52 5 £375 -25.00% 6
East of England - 5 £549 - 8

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 15 (8.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.51%) AWS
2 65 (36.52%) GitHub
3 62 (34.83%) OpenShift
4 59 (33.15%) Azure
5 52 (29.21%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (25.84%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (21.35%) GCP
8 22 (12.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (10.11%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.43%) OCI
12 13 (7.30%) Kong
13 9 (5.06%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.49%) Cloudflare
14 8 (4.49%) Serverless
15 7 (3.93%) Akamai
15 7 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.93%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) DNS
2 10 (5.62%) Firewall
3 8 (4.49%) VPN
4 5 (2.81%) HTTP
5 3 (1.69%) SAN
5 3 (1.69%) SSL
6 2 (1.12%) DSL
6 2 (1.12%) NAS
6 2 (1.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.56%) Calico
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.55%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.06%) Redis
4 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.81%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.81%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.56%) Power Query
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (28.65%) GitLab
2 41 (23.03%) Jenkins
2 41 (23.03%) SonarQube
3 14 (7.87%) Git
4 9 (5.06%) JIRA
4 9 (5.06%) Maven
5 8 (4.49%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.81%) Gradle
6 5 (2.81%) Snyk
7 4 (2.25%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.12%) Selenium
8 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.12%) TestRail
9 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.11%) Finance
4 15 (8.43%) Banking
5 5 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.12%) Billing
6 2 (1.12%) Front Office
6 2 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Advertising
7 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.56%) German Language
7 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (23.03%) Developer
1 41 (23.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (17.98%) Senior
3 26 (14.61%) Lead
4 23 (12.92%) Java Developer
5 19 (10.67%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Architect
6 18 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (8.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (56.18%) Terraform
2 38 (21.35%) AngularJS
3 36 (20.22%) Quarkus
4 30 (16.85%) Kafka
5 27 (15.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.67%) React
7 17 (9.55%) Loki
8 14 (7.87%) OAuth
9 13 (7.30%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.18%) Node.js
11 10 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.62%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.06%) OpenID
13 8 (4.49%) Express.js
13 8 (4.49%) ModSecurity
13 8 (4.49%) Spring
14 7 (3.93%) JWT
14 7 (3.93%) pytest
14 7 (3.93%) SAML
14 7 (3.93%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.78%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.37%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.25%) Blog
6 4 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.25%) Replication
7 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) VMS
3 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (66.85%) CI/CD
2 81 (45.51%) DevOps
3 80 (44.94%) GitOps
3 80 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (37.64%) Agile
4 67 (37.64%) Observability
5 63 (35.39%) DevSecOps
6 52 (29.21%) Containerisation
7 49 (27.53%) Platform Engineering
8 46 (25.84%) Software Engineering
9 41 (23.03%) Scrum
10 40 (22.47%) Front End Development
10 40 (22.47%) Test Automation
11 36 (20.22%) Sprint Planning
11 36 (20.22%) Unit Testing
12 35 (19.66%) SDLC
13 32 (17.98%) Sprint Review
14 28 (15.73%) Runbook
15 27 (15.17%) Secrets Management
16 24 (13.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.64%) Python
2 52 (29.21%) Java
3 45 (25.28%) Bash
4 19 (10.67%) Go
5 13 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.62%) SQL
7 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.69%) Bicep
8 3 (1.69%) Groovy
9 2 (1.12%) Cypher
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) SHACL
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.37%) Degree
6 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.25%) OCP
7 4 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.12%) NCDA
9 2 (1.12%) NCIE
9 2 (1.12%) RHCA
9 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.10%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.81%) PSD2
3 5 (2.81%) SEPA
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.12%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (28.09%) Docker
2 12 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.49%) vSphere
4 6 (3.37%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.12%) Ceph
6 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.12%) NFS
6 2 (1.12%) SRDF
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 156 (87.64%) Kubernetes
2 66 (37.08%) Grafana
3 40 (22.47%) Prometheus
4 27 (15.17%) Ansible
5 12 (6.74%) Istio
6 9 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.49%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.93%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.37%) Cilium
10 4 (2.25%) Packer
11 3 (1.69%) linkerd
11 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.69%) Puppet
12 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.12%) Nagios
12 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
13 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 54 (30.34%) Red Hat
2 17 (9.55%) VMware
3 16 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.99%) Oracle
4 15 (8.43%) Splunk
5 11 (6.18%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.18%) Google
6 8 (4.49%) Pure Storage
7 6 (3.37%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) Databricks
8 3 (1.69%) EMC
8 3 (1.69%) Veeam
9 2 (1.12%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.12%) Brocade
9 2 (1.12%) Dell
9 2 (1.12%) IBM
9 2 (1.12%) NetApp
9 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds