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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 474 523
Rank change year-on-year -14 +49 +75
Contract jobs citing Argo 180 80 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.55% 1.55% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 48 34
10th Percentile £401 £405 £438
25th Percentile £505 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -25.04%
75th Percentile £643 £615 £631
90th Percentile £688 £666 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.64% +10.00% -23.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 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 7,057 5,175 5,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.21% 15.75% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,795 3,423 3,671
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £505 £522
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -3.26% -5.09%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.57% -1.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 76 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.91 £23.99
Median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.69% +3.34% -41.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.10 £78.10 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -2 156 £540 +2.86% 106
UK excluding London +2 124 £519 -5.64% 44
North of England -16 67 £514 -7.60% 20
Work from Home -23 67 £623 +18.57% 53
London -66 42 £625 +8.70% 66
North East -20 30 £511 -8.09% 5
South East -44 27 £513 +2.50% 7
Yorkshire - 26 £514 - 2
South West -12 23 £525 -4.55% 7
Scotland -3 11 £550 -16.92% 3
North West - 11 £633 - 13
Midlands -57 5 £563 +28.39% 3
West Midlands -61 5 £563 +28.39% 2
East of England - 5 £549 - 2

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 14 (7.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.22%) AWS
2 70 (38.89%) GitHub
3 68 (37.78%) OpenShift
4 60 (33.33%) Azure
5 50 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (21.67%) GCP
8 24 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 19 (10.56%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.78%) OCI
11 10 (5.56%) Kong
12 9 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.89%) Serverless
13 7 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.67%) DNS
2 9 (5.00%) Firewall
3 8 (4.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.67%) HTTP
4 3 (1.67%) SAN
4 3 (1.67%) SSL
5 2 (1.11%) DSL
5 2 (1.11%) NAS
5 2 (1.11%) VSAN
6 1 (0.56%) Calico
6 1 (0.56%) IPsec
6 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.00%) Redis
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.22%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.11%) MySQL
7 2 (1.11%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 50 (27.78%) GitLab
2 46 (25.56%) Jenkins
3 45 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 12 (6.67%) Git
5 8 (4.44%) JIRA
5 8 (4.44%) Maven
6 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.22%) Gradle
7 4 (2.22%) Snyk
8 3 (1.67%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.11%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 30 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.89%) Finance
3 15 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.11%) Billing
5 2 (1.11%) Military
6 1 (0.56%) Advertising
6 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 45 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.11%) Developer
3 30 (16.67%) Senior
4 28 (15.56%) Lead
5 22 (12.22%) Java Developer
6 21 (11.67%) Architect
7 19 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.33%) Java Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Software Engineer
12 12 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (4.44%) Backend Developer
15 8 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.33%) AngularJS
2 40 (22.22%) Quarkus
3 27 (15.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (14.44%) Kafka
5 15 (8.33%) React
6 14 (7.78%) Loki
7 11 (6.11%) Node.js
7 11 (6.11%) OAuth
8 10 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 9 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.44%) Express.js
10 8 (4.44%) OpenID
11 7 (3.89%) ModSecurity
11 7 (3.89%) Spring Boot
12 6 (3.33%) JWT
12 6 (3.33%) SAML
13 5 (2.78%) Keycloak
13 5 (2.78%) Spring
13 5 (2.78%) WebSockets
14 4 (2.22%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 54 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Blog
6 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.22%) Replication
7 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.67%) PKI
7 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.11%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.22%) Linux
2 5 (2.78%) VMS
3 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.67%) Windows
5 2 (1.11%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.56%) CI/CD
2 85 (47.22%) DevOps
2 85 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (44.44%) GitOps
4 71 (39.44%) Agile
5 65 (36.11%) DevSecOps
6 61 (33.89%) Observability
7 59 (32.78%) Containerisation
8 47 (26.11%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (26.11%) Software Engineering
9 44 (24.44%) Scrum
10 43 (23.89%) Front End Development
11 41 (22.78%) Test Automation
12 40 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
12 40 (22.22%) Unit Testing
13 39 (21.67%) SDLC
14 36 (20.00%) Sprint Review
15 32 (17.78%) Secrets Management
16 27 (15.00%) Migration
17 24 (13.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.00%) Python
2 53 (29.44%) Java
3 51 (28.33%) Bash
4 16 (8.89%) Go
5 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.44%) SQL
9 6 (3.33%) Bicep
10 2 (1.11%) Cypher
10 2 (1.11%) R
10 2 (1.11%) SHACL
10 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 66 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.33%) Degree
6 6 (3.33%) OCP
6 6 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.11%) NCDA
9 2 (1.11%) NCIE
9 2 (1.11%) RHCA
9 2 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.44%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.78%) PSD2
3 5 (2.78%) SEPA
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (27.78%) Docker
2 16 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.78%) vSphere
4 12 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.11%) Ceph
6 2 (1.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.11%) NFS
6 2 (1.11%) SRDF
6 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 157 (87.22%) Kubernetes
2 105 (58.33%) Terraform
3 69 (38.33%) Grafana
4 41 (22.78%) Prometheus
5 34 (18.89%) Ansible
6 14 (7.78%) Istio
6 14 (7.78%) vCenter Server
7 9 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.89%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.33%) Cilium
10 4 (2.22%) linkerd
10 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.22%) Puppet
11 2 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.11%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.11%) Nagios
11 2 (1.11%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.11%) Rancher
11 2 (1.11%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.11%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 61 (33.89%) Red Hat
2 24 (13.33%) VMware
3 21 (11.67%) Splunk
4 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.78%) Pure Storage
6 13 (7.22%) Oracle
7 10 (5.56%) Google
8 9 (5.00%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.78%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.67%) Cisco
10 3 (1.67%) EMC
10 3 (1.67%) Veeam
11 2 (1.11%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.11%) Brocade
11 2 (1.11%) Dell
11 2 (1.11%) FactSet
11 2 (1.11%) NetApp
11 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds