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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 459 541
Rank change year-on-year -29 +82 +93
Contract jobs citing Argo 154 58 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.33% 1.25% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 33
10th Percentile £400 £463 £438
25th Percentile £500 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £775 £675 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +6.70% -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 6,610 4,638 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.35% 15.87% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,506 3,133 3,826
10th Percentile £325 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £498 £489
% change year-on-year -0.50% +1.74% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 48 98
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.77
25th Percentile £25.51 £20.76 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.41% +8.13% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.29 £50.19
90th Percentile £76.80 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 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 7 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 7 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 -18 133 £525 -3.31% 52
UK excluding London +6 108 £514 -3.66% 35
Work from Home -25 58 £534 -5.53% 32
North of England - 53 £517 - 14
London -73 29 £675 +24.31% 19
South East -32 27 £496 -0.75% 10
Yorkshire - 27 £514 -
South West - 21 £525 - 3
North East - 18 £513 - 7
North West - 8 £633 - 7
Midlands -44 6 £532 +11.89% 5
West Midlands -52 6 £532 +11.89% 3
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland -3 4 £553 -18.15% 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 3 (1.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) OpenShift
2 64 (41.56%) GitHub
3 56 (36.36%) AWS
4 42 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (26.62%) Azure
6 40 (25.97%) GCP
7 29 (18.83%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (16.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.49%) Cloud Run
11 7 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.90%) Google Gemini
12 6 (3.90%) Stackdriver
13 5 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.29%) DNS
2 8 (5.19%) VPN
3 5 (3.25%) Firewall
4 3 (1.95%) SAN
5 2 (1.30%) NAS
5 2 (1.30%) VSAN
6 1 (0.65%) IPsec
6 1 (0.65%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) Redis
2 14 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.44%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.90%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.90%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Flink
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (35.71%) GitLab
2 50 (32.47%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.48%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.19%) Git
5 7 (4.55%) JIRA
6 6 (3.90%) Maven
7 4 (2.60%) Gradle
7 4 (2.60%) Snyk
8 2 (1.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.30%) Gatling
8 2 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (16.23%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Banking
4 15 (9.74%) Finance
5 6 (3.90%) Retail
6 2 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Advertising
7 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.65%) Front Office
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Military
7 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (33.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (22.73%) Senior
3 27 (17.53%) Developer
4 19 (12.34%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (11.69%) Architect
5 18 (11.69%) Java Developer
5 18 (11.69%) Senior DevOps
5 18 (11.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.04%) Lead
7 14 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (7.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Java Engineer
9 11 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Backend Developer
11 8 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.78%) AngularJS
1 32 (20.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (18.18%) Quarkus
3 23 (14.94%) Kafka
4 16 (10.39%) Node.js
4 16 (10.39%) React
5 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.44%) Spring
7 9 (5.84%) Express.js
7 9 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (5.19%) Loki
8 8 (5.19%) OAuth
8 8 (5.19%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.55%) Keycloak
10 6 (3.90%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.90%) LangChain
10 6 (3.90%) OpenID
11 4 (2.60%) JPA
11 4 (2.60%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (2.60%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 53 (34.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.95%) Blog
6 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.30%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.30%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) PKI
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.60%) VMS
4 2 (1.30%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (70.78%) CI/CD
2 91 (59.09%) DevOps
3 79 (51.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (46.75%) Containerisation
5 65 (42.21%) GitOps
6 53 (34.42%) Agile
6 53 (34.42%) Observability
7 45 (29.22%) DevSecOps
8 43 (27.92%) Platform Engineering
9 37 (24.03%) Front End Development
10 36 (23.38%) Software Engineering
11 31 (20.13%) Migration
12 30 (19.48%) SDLC
13 29 (18.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
14 28 (18.18%) Test Automation
15 27 (17.53%) High Availability
15 27 (17.53%) Scrum
16 26 (16.88%) Unit Testing
17 24 (15.58%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 58 (37.66%) Python
2 48 (31.17%) Bash
3 42 (27.27%) Java
4 11 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.49%) Go
6 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.55%) SQL
7 6 (3.90%) Bicep
8 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 45 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.84%) OCP
3 9 (5.84%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) RHCA
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.30%) Degree
8 2 (1.30%) NCDA
8 2 (1.30%) NCIE
8 2 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.88%) QA
2 9 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.60%) NCSC
3 4 (2.60%) PSD2
3 4 (2.60%) SEPA
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (25.97%) Docker
2 22 (14.29%) vSphere
3 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.34%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.30%) Ceph
6 2 (1.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.30%) NFS
6 2 (1.30%) SRDF
6 2 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.65%) iptables
Systems Management
1 141 (91.56%) Kubernetes
2 94 (61.04%) Terraform
3 68 (44.16%) Grafana
4 48 (31.17%) Prometheus
5 47 (30.52%) Ansible
6 22 (14.29%) Istio
7 21 (13.64%) vCenter Server
8 10 (6.49%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (4.55%) Kustomize
9 7 (4.55%) linkerd
10 5 (3.25%) Puppet
11 4 (2.60%) Cilium
12 3 (1.95%) Nagios
12 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.95%) Rancher
13 2 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.30%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.30%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.30%) Podman
13 2 (1.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 57 (37.01%) Red Hat
2 33 (21.43%) VMware
3 24 (15.58%) Splunk
4 21 (13.64%) Pure Storage
5 14 (9.09%) Google
6 4 (2.60%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.95%) Oracle
7 3 (1.95%) Veeam
8 2 (1.30%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.30%) Brocade
8 2 (1.30%) Cisco
8 2 (1.30%) Confluent
8 2 (1.30%) Dell
8 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.30%) EMC
8 2 (1.30%) NetApp
8 2 (1.30%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Tanium