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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 475 557
Rank change year-on-year +27 +82 +172
Contract jobs citing Argo 143 59 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.18% 0.099%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.42% 1.20% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 36 26
10th Percentile £409 £450 £431
25th Percentile £506 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year - +1.32% -14.92%
75th Percentile £645 £681 £643
90th Percentile £735 £825 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +8.81% -8.10% -20.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £47.20 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile - £61.88 -
90th Percentile £58.00 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,900 4,935 5,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 14.82% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 3,179 4,141
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £502
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.84% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 65 162
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.33 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.05 £22.19
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +96.44% -47.64% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.50 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.20 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.25 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.95% -47.64% +37.85%

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 30 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

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 30 December 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 +17 118 £575 -0.95% 247
UK excluding London +5 68 £525 +8.81% 227
Work from Home +32 57 £600 +5.26% 140
London +1 55 £650 - 42
South East +10 27 £485 +7.78% 62
North of England - 20 £569 - 55
North East - 15 £581 - 9
Midlands - 11 £515 - 43
West Midlands - 9 £515 - 23
South West +1 5 £648 +7.11% 21
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
Scotland - 4 £649 - 10
Yorkshire - 3 - - 25
East Midlands - 2 - - 18
North West - 2 £538 - 21
Wales 0 1 £600 +2.39% 6

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 (6.99%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.20%) Confluence
3 4 (2.80%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.10%) Traefik
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) Apache
6 1 (0.70%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 79 (55.24%) AWS
2 67 (46.85%) GitHub
3 62 (43.36%) OpenShift
4 51 (35.66%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (29.37%) Azure
6 38 (26.57%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (25.87%) GCP
8 14 (9.79%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (4.90%) IaaS
11 7 (4.90%) Slack
11 7 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.20%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.20%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.50%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.19%) DNS
2 5 (3.50%) Firewall
3 3 (2.10%) SSH
3 3 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.40%) Calico
4 2 (1.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.70%) 4G
5 1 (0.70%) 5G
5 1 (0.70%) STUN
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.70%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.99%) Redis
3 9 (6.29%) Big Data
3 9 (6.29%) Flink
3 9 (6.29%) Hadoop
4 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.50%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.10%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.10%) Parquet
7 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.70%) MySQL
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (32.87%) GitLab
2 43 (30.07%) Jenkins
3 24 (16.78%) Git
4 11 (7.69%) JIRA
4 11 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.80%) Gradle
6 3 (2.10%) Maven
6 3 (2.10%) MLflow
6 3 (2.10%) Selenium
6 3 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.10%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.40%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.40%) Poetry
7 2 (1.40%) PyCharm
7 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.70%) Gatling
8 1 (0.70%) git-flow
8 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.99%) Finance
3 15 (10.49%) Banking
3 15 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Front Office
5 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Retail
6 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.38%) Developer
3 17 (11.89%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (11.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Senior
4 16 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
7 10 (6.99%) Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Kafka Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.58%) Kafka
2 20 (13.99%) AngularJS
2 20 (13.99%) React
2 20 (13.99%) Spring
3 19 (13.29%) Node.js
4 18 (12.59%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (11.89%) Keycloak
5 17 (11.89%) Loki
6 13 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (8.39%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.69%) CSS
8 11 (7.69%) HTML
9 10 (6.99%) Vue
10 8 (5.59%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (4.20%) .NET
11 6 (4.20%) Quarkus
12 5 (3.50%) LangChain
13 4 (2.80%) Apache Avro
13 4 (2.80%) Flask
13 4 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.29%) Virtual Team
3 7 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.80%) Replication
7 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.57%) Linux
2 14 (9.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
4 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (87.41%) CI/CD
2 89 (62.24%) DevOps
3 76 (53.15%) Containerisation
4 73 (51.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (37.06%) GitOps
6 48 (33.57%) Observability
7 46 (32.17%) Agile
8 37 (25.87%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (23.78%) Microservices
9 34 (23.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (20.98%) Migration
11 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.48%) DevSecOps
13 17 (11.89%) Front End Development
13 17 (11.89%) Software Engineering
14 15 (10.49%) Test Automation
15 14 (9.79%) Incident Response
16 13 (9.09%) Mentoring
17 12 (8.39%) AI
17 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (66.43%) Python
2 53 (37.06%) Bash
3 46 (32.17%) Java
4 19 (13.29%) Go
5 16 (11.19%) JavaScript
6 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.59%) Ruby
8 6 (4.20%) Groovy
9 5 (3.50%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.50%) SQL
10 2 (1.40%) C#
10 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (47.55%) Security Cleared
2 61 (42.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.90%) Degree
5 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) NCSC
3 3 (2.10%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) PSD2
5 1 (0.70%) SEPA
5 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (46.15%) Docker
2 18 (12.59%) vSphere
3 16 (11.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.99%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.70%) etcd
5 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 133 (93.01%) Kubernetes
2 89 (62.24%) Terraform
3 56 (39.16%) Grafana
4 49 (34.27%) Ansible
5 41 (28.67%) Prometheus
6 31 (21.68%) Istio
7 11 (7.69%) Kustomize
8 10 (6.99%) vCenter Server
9 7 (4.90%) linkerd
10 5 (3.50%) Rancher
11 3 (2.10%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.10%) Nagios
11 3 (2.10%) Podman
12 2 (1.40%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (39.16%) Red Hat
2 27 (18.88%) VMware
3 20 (13.99%) Splunk
4 19 (13.29%) Google
5 9 (6.29%) Pure Storage
6 3 (2.10%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.40%) Confluent
7 2 (1.40%) IBM
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle
7 2 (1.40%) Qualys
8 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco
8 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.70%) F5
8 1 (0.70%) Intel
8 1 (0.70%) NetApp
8 1 (0.70%) Nokia
8 1 (0.70%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.70%) SAP