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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 499 570
Rank change year-on-year +59 +71 +171
Contract jobs citing Argo 130 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 1.12% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 32 34
10th Percentile £408 £450 £436
25th Percentile £509 £490 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £599
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -9.39% -7.88%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £667
90th Percentile £688 £928 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £482 £525
% change year-on-year +13.07% -8.19% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £45.85 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £54.75 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 5,740 5,169 6,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 14.34% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,842 3,300 4,704
10th Percentile £308 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.07% -4.83%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 62 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.67 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £32.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -38.10% +104.20%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £74.40 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.08% -29.62% +100.78%

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 18 November 2025.

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 16 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 18 November 2025. 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 +16 107 £570 +0.88% 108
UK excluding London +22 57 £545 +13.07% 56
London +26 54 £610 -6.15% 66
Work from Home +40 50 £600 +10.60% 75
South East +10 18 £500 +7.30% 22
North of England -19 18 £569 +15.37% 7
North East - 13 £581 - 3
Midlands - 9 £514 - 11
West Midlands - 7 £514 - 11
South West +3 5 £648 +7.11% 5
Scotland - 5 £662 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West -19 2 £538 +9.03% 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales - 1 £600 - 3

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 10 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.62%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) Traefik
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.77%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.54%) AWS
2 54 (41.54%) OpenShift
3 47 (36.15%) GitHub
4 40 (30.77%) Azure
5 39 (30.00%) GCP
6 31 (23.85%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (22.31%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (13.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 15 (11.54%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.92%) Slack
11 8 (6.15%) Azure AKS
11 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.38%) IaaS
12 7 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.62%) Datadog
14 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.85%) Pulumi
15 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.85%) DNS
2 7 (5.38%) Firewall
3 3 (2.31%) SSH
3 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.54%) Calico
4 2 (1.54%) SSL
5 1 (0.77%) 4G
5 1 (0.77%) 5G
5 1 (0.77%) STUN
5 1 (0.77%) VLAN
5 1 (0.77%) VPN
5 1 (0.77%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.92%) Big Data
2 9 (6.92%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.85%) Flink
3 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.08%) Redis
5 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.31%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.31%) Parquet
5 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (33.08%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.46%) GitLab
3 25 (19.23%) Git
4 10 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 9 (6.92%) JIRA
6 5 (3.85%) Gradle
7 4 (3.08%) Maven
7 4 (3.08%) Selenium
7 4 (3.08%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.31%) MLflow
8 3 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.54%) git-flow
9 2 (1.54%) Poetry
9 2 (1.54%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.77%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 12 (9.23%) Banking
5 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Front Office
8 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.77%) iGaming
10 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Developer
3 15 (11.54%) Senior
4 14 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 13 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Architect
9 9 (6.92%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Lead
11 7 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Kafka Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) Kafka
2 14 (10.77%) Loki
2 14 (10.77%) Node.js
3 13 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 13 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (10.00%) React
3 13 (10.00%) Spring
4 11 (8.46%) CSS
4 11 (8.46%) HTML
4 11 (8.46%) Keycloak
4 11 (8.46%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (7.69%) Vue
6 8 (6.15%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (3.85%) .NET
7 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.08%) Flask
8 4 (3.08%) Pandas
9 3 (2.31%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.31%) OpenID
9 3 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.08%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.08%) Replication
6 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.23%) Linux
2 16 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.77%) CentOS
3 1 (0.77%) VMS
3 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (88.46%) CI/CD
2 78 (60.00%) DevOps
3 66 (50.77%) Containerisation
4 62 (47.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (33.85%) GitOps
6 39 (30.00%) Agile
6 39 (30.00%) Observability
7 31 (23.85%) Migration
7 31 (23.85%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (20.77%) Microservices
9 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (13.08%) Test Automation
11 15 (11.54%) DevSecOps
12 14 (10.77%) Incident Response
12 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (10.77%) Secrets Management
13 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (9.23%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 82 (63.08%) Python
2 46 (35.38%) Bash
3 37 (28.46%) Java
4 16 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.54%) Go
6 14 (10.77%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.15%) Ruby
8 6 (4.62%) Groovy
8 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.31%) SQL
10 2 (1.54%) C#
10 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 58 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.38%) Degree
3 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) NCSC
4 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (45.38%) Docker
2 18 (13.85%) vSphere
3 15 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.77%) etcd
5 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 80 (61.54%) Terraform
3 44 (33.85%) Grafana
4 39 (30.00%) Ansible
5 28 (21.54%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.69%) Istio
7 11 (8.46%) Kustomize
8 10 (7.69%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.31%) Podman
10 2 (1.54%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.54%) linkerd
10 2 (1.54%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.77%) Nagios
11 1 (0.77%) Packer
11 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.77%) Rancher
11 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (37.69%) Red Hat
2 21 (16.15%) VMware
3 19 (14.62%) Google
4 14 (10.77%) Splunk
5 9 (6.92%) Pure Storage
6 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.31%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.31%) Oracle
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) IBM
8 2 (1.54%) Qualys
9 1 (0.77%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.77%) Confluent
9 1 (0.77%) F5
9 1 (0.77%) Intel
9 1 (0.77%) NetApp
9 1 (0.77%) Nokia
9 1 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.77%) Veracode
9 1 (0.77%) Virgin Media