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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 488 523
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +97
Contract jobs citing Argo 171 66 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.46% 1.32% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 43 36
10th Percentile £401 £467 £438
25th Percentile £505 £505 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £563 £497
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +13.29% -25.56%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £548
90th Percentile £688 £672 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £565 £497
% change year-on-year -8.10% +13.75% -25.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
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 6,959 4,997 5,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.74% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,314 3,860
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 61 102
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.17% -7.69% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -13.04%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -11 150 £525 -1.69% 63
UK excluding London -6 121 £519 -8.10% 41
Work from Home -14 65 £600 +6.19% 39
North of England -11 64 £514 -8.62% 13
London -73 35 £658 +21.09% 25
Yorkshire - 28 £514 - 4
North East -12 26 £511 -9.11% 2
South East -33 26 £513 +2.50% 12
South West - 25 £525 - 6
North West - 10 £633 - 8
Scotland -11 6 £555 -16.16% 3
Midlands -53 6 £532 +11.89% 6
West Midlands -57 6 £532 +11.89% 4
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 11 (6.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) nginx
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.20%) OpenShift
2 67 (39.18%) AWS
3 64 (37.43%) GitHub
4 49 (28.65%) Azure
5 40 (23.39%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (22.81%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (20.47%) GCP
8 23 (13.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (8.19%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.85%) OCI
12 8 (4.68%) Azure AKS
13 7 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.92%) Cloud Run
14 5 (2.92%) Kong
15 4 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.34%) CloudFront
15 4 (2.34%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.04%) DNS
2 8 (4.68%) VPN
3 7 (4.09%) Firewall
4 3 (1.75%) SAN
5 2 (1.17%) DSL
5 2 (1.17%) NAS
5 2 (1.17%) SSL
5 2 (1.17%) VSAN
6 1 (0.58%) Calico
6 1 (0.58%) HTTP
6 1 (0.58%) IPsec
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.26%) Redis
4 7 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.34%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (30.41%) GitLab
2 49 (28.65%) Jenkins
3 40 (23.39%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.26%) Git
5 8 (4.68%) JIRA
6 6 (3.51%) Maven
7 4 (2.34%) Gradle
7 4 (2.34%) Snyk
8 2 (1.17%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.17%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.17%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (18.13%) Public Sector
2 29 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.36%) Finance
4 14 (8.19%) Banking
5 2 (1.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.17%) Military
6 1 (0.58%) Advertising
6 1 (0.58%) Billing
6 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (28.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (19.30%) Senior
3 28 (16.37%) Developer
4 24 (14.04%) Lead
5 22 (12.87%) Architect
6 20 (11.70%) Java Developer
7 19 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
8 18 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (9.36%) Java Engineer
10 13 (7.60%) Software Engineer
11 12 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 10 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (4.68%) Backend Developer
16 7 (4.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.81%) AngularJS
2 36 (21.05%) Quarkus
3 25 (14.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (10.53%) Kafka
5 14 (8.19%) Loki
6 13 (7.60%) React
7 11 (6.43%) Node.js
8 9 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.68%) Express.js
10 7 (4.09%) OAuth
10 7 (4.09%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.09%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.51%) JWT
11 6 (3.51%) ModSecurity
12 5 (2.92%) OpenID
12 5 (2.92%) Spring
13 4 (2.34%) Apache Avro
13 4 (2.34%) JPA
13 4 (2.34%) Protocol Buffers
13 4 (2.34%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 54 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.09%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.34%) Blog
5 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.34%) Replication
6 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.17%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.17%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.17%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.28%) Linux
2 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.92%) VMS
4 2 (1.17%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (66.08%) CI/CD
2 89 (52.05%) DevOps
3 79 (46.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (42.69%) GitOps
5 64 (37.43%) Agile
6 63 (36.84%) Containerisation
7 56 (32.75%) DevSecOps
8 54 (31.58%) Observability
9 42 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (23.98%) Front End Development
11 39 (22.81%) Software Engineering
12 38 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
13 37 (21.64%) Test Automation
14 36 (21.05%) Scrum
14 36 (21.05%) Unit Testing
15 34 (19.88%) SDLC
16 32 (18.71%) Sprint Review
17 31 (18.13%) Migration
18 30 (17.54%) Secrets Management
19 28 (16.37%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.01%) Python
2 53 (30.99%) Bash
3 49 (28.65%) Java
4 11 (6.43%) Go
4 11 (6.43%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.51%) Bicep
7 4 (2.34%) SQL
7 4 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.17%) Cypher
8 2 (1.17%) R
8 2 (1.17%) SHACL
8 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) OCP
3 9 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.75%) Degree
7 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) RHCA
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.17%) NCDA
8 2 (1.17%) NCIE
8 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.71%) QA
2 8 (4.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.75%) PSD2
3 3 (1.75%) SEPA
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) NCSC
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (25.73%) Docker
2 22 (12.87%) vSphere
3 20 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (11.11%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.17%) Ceph
6 2 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.17%) NFS
6 2 (1.17%) SRDF
6 2 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.58%) iptables
Systems Management
1 149 (87.13%) Kubernetes
2 98 (57.31%) Terraform
3 74 (43.27%) Grafana
4 44 (25.73%) Prometheus
5 40 (23.39%) Ansible
6 21 (12.28%) vCenter Server
7 14 (8.19%) Istio
8 10 (5.85%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (5.26%) Kustomize
10 5 (2.92%) Cilium
11 4 (2.34%) linkerd
11 4 (2.34%) Nagios
12 3 (1.75%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.75%) Puppet
13 2 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.17%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.17%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.17%) Rancher
13 2 (1.17%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.17%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 64 (37.43%) Red Hat
2 29 (16.96%) VMware
3 21 (12.28%) Pure Storage
3 21 (12.28%) Splunk
4 10 (5.85%) Oracle
5 9 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.68%) Google
7 6 (3.51%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.75%) Veeam
9 2 (1.17%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.17%) Brocade
9 2 (1.17%) Cisco
9 2 (1.17%) Confluent
9 2 (1.17%) Dell
9 2 (1.17%) EMC
9 2 (1.17%) FactSet
9 2 (1.17%) IBM
9 2 (1.17%) NetApp
9 2 (1.17%) SolarWinds