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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 465 561
Rank change year-on-year +25 +96 +148
Contract jobs citing Argo 135 59 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.19% 0.088%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.38% 1.26% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 36 22
10th Percentile £416 £450 £406
25th Percentile £506 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +6.48% -19.04%
75th Percentile £649 £681 £638
90th Percentile £746 £825 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £483 £519
% change year-on-year +8.81% -7.03% -22.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £48.55 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 5,679 4,682 5,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.67% 14.86% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,905 3,016 4,048
10th Percentile £313 £311 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 66 160
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.97
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +23.15%

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 12 January 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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 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 -5 113 £575 -0.95% 159
UK excluding London +8 61 £525 +8.81% 137
Work from Home +24 54 £600 +5.26% 85
London +4 54 £675 +3.85% 51
South East +7 28 £485 +7.78% 53
North of England - 18 £575 - 22
North East - 13 £600 - 5
Midlands - 8 £525 - 15
West Midlands - 7 £525 - 4
South West -14 5 £648 +7.11% 20
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 3 - - 9
North West - 2 £538 - 8
Wales 0 1 £600 +2.39% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 11
Scotland - 1 - - 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 8 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.22%) Confluence
4 2 (1.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.48%) Traefik
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.74%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 76 (56.30%) AWS
2 65 (48.15%) GitHub
3 62 (45.93%) OpenShift
4 49 (36.30%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (31.85%) Azure
6 35 (25.93%) GCP
7 34 (25.19%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (8.89%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.93%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.19%) IaaS
10 7 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (4.44%) Azure AKS
11 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.70%) Google Gemini
12 5 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) DNS
2 4 (2.96%) Firewall
3 2 (1.48%) Calico
4 1 (0.74%) 4G
4 1 (0.74%) 5G
4 1 (0.74%) SSH
4 1 (0.74%) SSL
4 1 (0.74%) STUN
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) VLAN
4 1 (0.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.15%) Redis
3 9 (6.67%) Flink
4 7 (5.19%) Big Data
4 7 (5.19%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.48%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) MySQL
8 1 (0.74%) Parquet
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (34.07%) GitLab
2 39 (28.89%) Jenkins
3 20 (14.81%) Git
4 9 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.93%) JIRA
6 3 (2.22%) Gradle
7 2 (1.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.48%) Gatling
7 2 (1.48%) Maven
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) git-flow
8 1 (0.74%) GoCD
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) Poetry
8 1 (0.74%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Finance
3 16 (11.85%) Banking
4 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.93%) Front Office
6 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 5 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.78%) Developer
3 16 (11.85%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (11.85%) Senior
3 16 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (7.41%) Architect
7 10 (7.41%) Lead
8 9 (6.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Site Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Kafka Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.48%) Kafka
2 21 (15.56%) AngularJS
2 21 (15.56%) Spring
3 20 (14.81%) React
4 19 (14.07%) Node.js
4 19 (14.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 18 (13.33%) Loki
6 14 (10.37%) Keycloak
7 13 (9.63%) Spring Boot
8 11 (8.15%) CSS
8 11 (8.15%) HTML
9 10 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (7.41%) Vue
10 8 (5.93%) Quarkus
10 8 (5.93%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (4.44%) .NET
11 6 (4.44%) OpenID
12 5 (3.70%) LangChain
13 4 (2.96%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.44%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.96%) Replication
7 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.19%) Linux
2 15 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) CentOS
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (85.93%) CI/CD
2 82 (60.74%) DevOps
3 73 (54.07%) Containerisation
4 67 (49.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (34.81%) Observability
6 46 (34.07%) GitOps
7 44 (32.59%) Agile
8 34 (25.19%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (24.44%) Microservices
9 33 (24.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (20.00%) DevSecOps
11 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (17.04%) Migration
13 18 (13.33%) Front End Development
13 18 (13.33%) Software Engineering
14 15 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 13 (9.63%) Incident Response
16 12 (8.89%) AI
16 12 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 11 (8.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (64.44%) Python
2 48 (35.56%) Bash
3 43 (31.85%) Java
4 19 (14.07%) Go
5 16 (11.85%) JavaScript
6 15 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.93%) Ruby
8 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.96%) Groovy
9 4 (2.96%) SQL
10 2 (1.48%) C#
10 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 66 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 59 (43.70%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.19%) Degree
5 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) QA
2 5 (3.70%) NCSC
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.48%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.48%) PSD2
3 2 (1.48%) SEPA
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
3 2 (1.48%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (46.67%) Docker
2 18 (13.33%) vSphere
3 16 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.74%) etcd
5 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (92.59%) Kubernetes
2 82 (60.74%) Terraform
3 56 (41.48%) Grafana
4 48 (35.56%) Ansible
5 42 (31.11%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.04%) Istio
7 11 (8.15%) Kustomize
8 10 (7.41%) vCenter Server
9 7 (5.19%) linkerd
10 5 (3.70%) Rancher
11 3 (2.22%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.22%) Nagios
11 3 (2.22%) Podman
12 2 (1.48%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.48%) Puppet
13 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 27 (20.00%) VMware
3 20 (14.81%) Splunk
4 18 (13.33%) Google
5 9 (6.67%) Pure Storage
6 3 (2.22%) Confluent
7 2 (1.48%) IBM
7 2 (1.48%) Qualys
8 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.74%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.74%) F5
8 1 (0.74%) Intel
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.74%) NetApp
8 1 (0.74%) Nokia
8 1 (0.74%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.74%) Veracode