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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 468 541
Rank change year-on-year +9 +73 +135
Contract jobs citing Argo 159 53 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.48% 1.13% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 36 35
10th Percentile £400 £447 £438
25th Percentile £493 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +10.68% -22.79%
75th Percentile £623 £641 £592
90th Percentile £723 £713 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £567 £511
% change year-on-year -9.61% +10.90% -23.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 6,422 4,706 5,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 16.21% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 3,187 3,786
10th Percentile £320 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £626
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.00% +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 53 136
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £22.50 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -16.69% -42.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £49.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £79.45 £69.75 £69.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £38.50
% change year-on-year +127.46% -37.19% -16.40%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -18 138 £525 -7.89% 44
UK excluding London -1 101 £513 -9.61% 32
Work from Home +4 60 £588 +3.07% 18
North of England - 45 £540 - 15
London -55 42 £675 +20.00% 15
South East -10 41 £493 -13.14% 11
North East - 19 £600 - 5
Yorkshire - 18 £511 - 7
South West -15 8 £500 - 5
West Midlands -51 8 £525 +10.53%
Midlands -59 8 £525 +10.53%
North West - 8 £615 - 3
Scotland - 3 £550 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Wales -9 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 (2.52%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.20%) OpenShift
2 75 (47.17%) AWS
3 73 (45.91%) GitHub
4 51 (32.08%) GitHub Actions
5 46 (28.93%) Azure
6 37 (23.27%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (18.24%) GCP
8 17 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (8.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (5.03%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.77%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.77%) Google Gemini
13 6 (3.77%) IaaS
13 6 (3.77%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.24%) DNS
2 3 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.55%) Redis
3 8 (5.03%) Flink
4 7 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.89%) Big Data
8 3 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.26%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) MySQL
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (36.48%) GitLab
2 57 (35.85%) Jenkins
3 25 (15.72%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.03%) Git
5 7 (4.40%) JIRA
6 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.26%) Gatling
7 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.63%) git-flow
8 1 (0.63%) GoCD
8 1 (0.63%) Gradle
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
General
1 34 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.58%) Banking
3 16 (10.06%) Finance
4 15 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.03%) Front Office
6 6 (3.77%) Retail
7 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (15.72%) Senior
3 21 (13.21%) Developer
4 19 (11.95%) Architect
5 18 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (10.69%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (10.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (8.81%) Java Developer
9 14 (8.81%) Software Engineer
10 12 (7.55%) Lead
10 12 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Java Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (6.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Site Engineer
14 6 (3.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.50%) AngularJS
1 31 (19.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (17.61%) Kafka
3 26 (16.35%) Quarkus
4 15 (9.43%) Loki
5 14 (8.81%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.18%) React
6 13 (8.18%) Spring
7 9 (5.66%) Node.js
8 8 (5.03%) Keycloak
9 7 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (4.40%) OpenID
9 7 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.77%) LangChain
11 5 (3.14%) OAuth
11 5 (3.14%) OAuth2
12 4 (2.52%) .NET
13 3 (1.89%) OpenAPI
13 3 (1.89%) Swagger
14 2 (1.26%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.82%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.03%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) PKI
7 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.38%) Linux
2 14 (8.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (72.96%) CI/CD
2 100 (62.89%) DevOps
3 83 (52.20%) Containerisation
4 78 (49.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (37.74%) Agile
6 52 (32.70%) GitOps
7 49 (30.82%) Observability
8 47 (29.56%) DevSecOps
9 38 (23.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (23.27%) Front End Development
11 35 (22.01%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (20.75%) Software Engineering
13 32 (20.13%) Migration
14 29 (18.24%) Test Automation
15 28 (17.61%) Load Balancing
15 28 (17.61%) Scrum
16 27 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (16.98%) Sprint Planning
17 26 (16.35%) SDLC
18 24 (15.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.60%) Python
2 67 (42.14%) Bash
3 48 (30.19%) Java
4 12 (7.55%) Go
5 10 (6.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.14%) Bicep
7 5 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.89%) Groovy
8 3 (1.89%) SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 61 (38.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) OCP
3 8 (5.03%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Degree
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.98%) QA
2 6 (3.77%) NCSC
3 2 (1.26%) GDPR
3 2 (1.26%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.26%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.26%) PSD2
3 2 (1.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (31.45%) Docker
2 36 (22.64%) vSphere
3 27 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.98%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (93.08%) Kubernetes
2 96 (60.38%) Terraform
3 73 (45.91%) Grafana
4 59 (37.11%) Ansible
5 52 (32.70%) Prometheus
6 27 (16.98%) vCenter Server
7 19 (11.95%) Istio
8 12 (7.55%) Kustomize
9 8 (5.03%) linkerd
10 6 (3.77%) Rancher
11 5 (3.14%) Nagios
11 5 (3.14%) Podman
12 4 (2.52%) Puppet
13 3 (1.89%) Karpenter
14 2 (1.26%) Opsgenie
14 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (40.25%) Red Hat
2 43 (27.04%) VMware
3 34 (21.38%) Splunk
4 26 (16.35%) Pure Storage
5 12 (7.55%) Google
6 3 (1.89%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.26%) Confluent
7 2 (1.26%) F5
7 2 (1.26%) Oracle
7 2 (1.26%) Qualys
8 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.63%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Veracode