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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 471 542
Rank change year-on-year +10 +71 +135
Contract jobs citing Argo 152 56 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.37% 1.17% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 37 35
10th Percentile £416 £443 £438
25th Percentile £505 £524 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +10.68% -21.79%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £584
90th Percentile £748 £710 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £577 £515
% change year-on-year -8.93% +11.94% -20.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 6,416 4,798 5,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 15.74% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,434 3,145 3,825
10th Percentile £315 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £688 £739 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 54 145
10th Percentile £18.40 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.50 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £76.58 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.05% -39.78% -14.53%

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 6 March 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 6 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 15 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 6 March 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 -6 129 £575 +0.88% 38
UK excluding London -6 80 £525 -8.93% 25
Work from Home +22 59 £600 +5.26% 28
London -21 52 £675 +20.00% 13
South East -10 35 £480 -15.34% 8
North of England - 30 £575 - 14
Yorkshire - 14 £514 - 8
North East - 11 £600 - 1
Midlands - 8 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £525 - 1
South West -19 7 £648 - 2
North West - 5 £633 - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
Wales 0 1 £600 +2.39%

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 4 (2.63%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.97%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Traefik
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 82 (53.95%) GitHub
2 81 (53.29%) AWS
3 79 (51.97%) OpenShift
4 55 (36.18%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (32.24%) Azure
6 38 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (24.34%) GCP
8 13 (8.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (7.24%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (5.92%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.61%) IaaS
15 6 (3.95%) Cloud Run
15 6 (3.95%) Datadog
15 6 (3.95%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.13%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) Calico
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) VLAN
4 1 (0.66%) VPN
4 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.24%) Redis
3 8 (5.26%) Flink
4 6 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.95%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.97%) Big Data
6 3 (1.97%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.32%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) MySQL
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (35.53%) GitLab
1 54 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.84%) Git
3 13 (8.55%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.32%) Gatling
6 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.66%) git-flow
7 1 (0.66%) GoCD
7 1 (0.66%) Gradle
7 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.66%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.50%) Banking
3 17 (11.18%) Finance
4 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.26%) Front Office
6 6 (3.95%) Retail
7 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (29.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (17.76%) Developer
3 24 (15.79%) Senior
4 17 (11.18%) Architect
4 17 (11.18%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Lead
7 12 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.92%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.92%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Site Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.42%) AngularJS
2 25 (16.45%) Kafka
2 25 (16.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 24 (15.79%) React
4 22 (14.47%) Spring
5 19 (12.50%) Node.js
6 17 (11.18%) Loki
7 14 (9.21%) Quarkus
7 14 (9.21%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.24%) CSS
8 11 (7.24%) HTML
9 10 (6.58%) Vue
10 9 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (5.92%) Keycloak
11 8 (5.26%) OpenID
11 8 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (3.95%) LangChain
13 5 (3.29%) .NET
13 5 (3.29%) OAuth
13 5 (3.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 54 (35.53%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.92%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.03%) Linux
2 14 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.66%) CentOS
4 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 98 (64.47%) DevOps
3 85 (55.92%) Containerisation
4 74 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (36.18%) Agile
6 52 (34.21%) Observability
7 49 (32.24%) GitOps
8 39 (25.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (24.34%) DevSecOps
10 34 (22.37%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (19.74%) Microservices
13 26 (17.11%) Front End Development
14 23 (15.13%) Migration
14 23 (15.13%) Software Engineering
15 21 (13.82%) Load Balancing
16 20 (13.16%) Test Automation
17 19 (12.50%) RBAC
18 18 (11.84%) SDLC
18 18 (11.84%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 95 (62.50%) Python
2 58 (38.16%) Bash
3 48 (31.58%) Java
4 16 (10.53%) Go
4 16 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.92%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.26%) Ruby
8 4 (2.63%) Bicep
9 3 (1.97%) Groovy
9 3 (1.97%) SQL
10 2 (1.32%) C#
11 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 65 (42.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.26%) Degree
3 8 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.29%) OCP
5 5 (3.29%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.16%) QA
2 6 (3.95%) NCSC
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) PSD2
3 2 (1.32%) SEPA
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (44.08%) Docker
2 31 (20.39%) vSphere
3 22 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (14.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.66%) etcd
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 140 (92.11%) Kubernetes
2 91 (59.87%) Terraform
3 70 (46.05%) Grafana
4 53 (34.87%) Ansible
4 53 (34.87%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.47%) vCenter Server
6 19 (12.50%) Istio
7 12 (7.89%) Kustomize
8 8 (5.26%) linkerd
9 5 (3.29%) Nagios
9 5 (3.29%) Podman
9 5 (3.29%) Rancher
10 3 (1.97%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.97%) Puppet
11 2 (1.32%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (39.47%) Red Hat
2 39 (25.66%) VMware
3 28 (18.42%) Splunk
4 21 (13.82%) Pure Storage
5 18 (11.84%) Google
6 4 (2.63%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.32%) Confluent
7 2 (1.32%) F5
7 2 (1.32%) IBM
7 2 (1.32%) Qualys
8 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco
8 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.66%) Intel
8 1 (0.66%) NetApp
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle
8 1 (0.66%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.66%) SAP
8 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow