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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 461 545
Rank change year-on-year -11 +84 +114
Contract jobs citing Argo 153 58 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.20% 0.098%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.39% 1.27% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 42 26
10th Percentile £401 £434 £438
25th Percentile £500 £503 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -25.04%
75th Percentile £634 £647 £529
90th Percentile £779 £698 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 6,414 4,581 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.76% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 3,123 3,643
10th Percentile £325 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.54%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £499 £495
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.86% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 53 112
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £69.69 £53.75 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +103.70% -6.09% -32.35%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 14 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 15 May 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 -26 134 £525 -7.04% 37
UK excluding London +5 106 £513 +2.50% 23
Work from Home 0 55 £543 -4.82% 26
North of England - 50 £514 - 5
London -58 31 £688 +25.00% 14
South East -31 29 £496 -0.75% 6
Yorkshire - 24 £511 -
North East - 18 £513 - 2
South West - 18 £525 - 9
West Midlands -53 9 £525 +10.53% 3
Midlands -58 9 £525 +10.53% 3
North West - 8 £633 - 3
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland - 3 £553 -

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 (2.61%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.96%) Confluence
3 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.41%) OpenShift
2 69 (45.10%) GitHub
3 60 (39.22%) AWS
4 47 (30.72%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (24.84%) Azure
6 35 (22.88%) GCP
7 32 (20.92%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (14.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.54%) Cloud Run
11 6 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.92%) Azure AKS
11 6 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.92%) Google Gemini
11 6 (3.92%) Stackdriver
12 5 (3.27%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.27%) Apigee
13 4 (2.61%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.38%) DNS
2 8 (5.23%) VPN
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.31%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) IPsec
4 1 (0.65%) NAS
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.65%) VSAN
4 1 (0.65%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.11%) Redis
2 14 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.92%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.92%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.61%) Flink
6 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.31%) Big Data
7 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 58 (37.91%) GitLab
2 50 (32.68%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.95%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.19%) JIRA
5 8 (5.23%) Git
6 6 (3.92%) Maven
7 4 (2.61%) Gradle
7 4 (2.61%) Snyk
8 2 (1.31%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.31%) Gatling
8 2 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.31%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.65%) GoCD
9 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.76%) Banking
4 15 (9.80%) Finance
5 6 (3.92%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Front Office
6 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.65%) Advertising
7 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 55 (35.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (22.22%) Senior
3 24 (15.69%) Developer
4 18 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 17 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.46%) Architect
7 13 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Java Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Lead
8 12 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.92%) AngularJS
2 31 (20.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 30 (19.61%) Kafka
4 28 (18.30%) Quarkus
5 15 (9.80%) React
6 13 (8.50%) Node.js
6 13 (8.50%) Spring
6 13 (8.50%) Spring Boot
7 12 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (5.23%) Keycloak
8 8 (5.23%) Loki
9 7 (4.58%) Express.js
9 7 (4.58%) OAuth
9 7 (4.58%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.92%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.92%) LangChain
11 5 (3.27%) OpenID
12 4 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.61%) JPA
12 4 (2.61%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.07%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.58%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.65%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.65%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) PKI
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.03%) Linux
2 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.31%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (69.28%) CI/CD
2 94 (61.44%) DevOps
3 73 (47.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (45.75%) Containerisation
5 63 (41.18%) GitOps
6 57 (37.25%) Agile
7 47 (30.72%) Observability
8 45 (29.41%) DevSecOps
9 43 (28.10%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (24.84%) Front End Development
10 38 (24.84%) Software Engineering
11 32 (20.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 31 (20.26%) Migration
12 31 (20.26%) Sprint Planning
13 30 (19.61%) SDLC
14 28 (18.30%) Scrum
14 28 (18.30%) Test Automation
15 26 (16.99%) Unit Testing
16 25 (16.34%) High Availability
17 23 (15.03%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.87%) Python
2 48 (31.37%) Bash
3 47 (30.72%) Java
4 11 (7.19%) Go
5 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.58%) SQL
8 6 (3.92%) Bicep
9 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (34.64%) Security Cleared
2 46 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) OCP
3 9 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.96%) RHCA
7 2 (1.31%) Degree
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) NCDA
8 1 (0.65%) NCIE
8 1 (0.65%) RHCE
8 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.65%) QA
2 7 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) NCSC
4 4 (2.61%) PSD2
4 4 (2.61%) SEPA
5 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.31%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (28.76%) Docker
2 21 (13.73%) vSphere
3 20 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.42%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.31%) Ceph
7 1 (0.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.65%) iptables
7 1 (0.65%) NFS
7 1 (0.65%) SRDF
7 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 142 (92.81%) Kubernetes
2 90 (58.82%) Terraform
3 67 (43.79%) Grafana
4 53 (34.64%) Ansible
5 46 (30.07%) Prometheus
6 20 (13.07%) vCenter Server
7 19 (12.42%) Istio
8 8 (5.23%) linkerd
9 7 (4.58%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (3.92%) Rancher
11 5 (3.27%) Nagios
12 4 (2.61%) Kustomize
12 4 (2.61%) Puppet
13 3 (1.96%) Cilium
14 2 (1.31%) Podman
14 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
15 1 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
15 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
15 1 (0.65%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 55 (35.95%) Red Hat
2 34 (22.22%) VMware
3 26 (16.99%) Splunk
4 20 (13.07%) Pure Storage
5 13 (8.50%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.31%) Confluent
7 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.31%) Oracle
7 2 (1.31%) Veeam
8 1 (0.65%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.65%) Brocade
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.65%) Tanium
8 1 (0.65%) Tenable
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro