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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 467 533
Rank change year-on-year -7 +66 +115
Contract jobs citing Argo 167 57 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.51% 1.22% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 40 34
10th Percentile £401 £459 £438
25th Percentile £500 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.00% -25.04%
75th Percentile £603 £628 £583
90th Percentile £775 £680 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +6.70% -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 6,648 4,656 5,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 15.78% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,531 3,137 3,841
10th Percentile £325 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 50 97
10th Percentile £19.19 £13.75 £15.43
25th Percentile £23.06 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £53.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -5.88%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -17 147 £525 -1.69% 40
UK excluding London +6 119 £513 -3.94% 31
Work from Home -32 62 £525 -7.08% 21
North of England - 60 £514 - 10
London -57 32 £675 +24.31% 11
South East -33 31 £510 +2.00% 11
Yorkshire - 27 £514 -
North East - 25 £511 - 4
South West - 23 £525 - 5
North West - 8 £633 - 6
West Midlands -48 6 £532 +11.89% 3
Midlands -52 6 £532 +11.89% 4
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland -10 4 £553 -18.15% 1

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 (2.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 84 (50.30%) OpenShift
2 64 (38.32%) GitHub
3 60 (35.93%) AWS
4 42 (25.15%) Azure
4 42 (25.15%) GitHub Actions
5 40 (23.95%) GCP
6 32 (19.16%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (16.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 18 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.99%) Cloud Run
10 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.79%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.19%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.59%) Google Gemini
12 6 (3.59%) Stackdriver
13 5 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.99%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.77%) DNS
2 8 (4.79%) VPN
3 5 (2.99%) Firewall
4 3 (1.80%) SAN
5 2 (1.20%) NAS
5 2 (1.20%) VSAN
6 1 (0.60%) Calico
6 1 (0.60%) DSL
6 1 (0.60%) IPsec
6 1 (0.60%) Network Security
6 1 (0.60%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) Redis
2 14 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.78%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.59%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.59%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.60%) MySQL
10 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.60%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 58 (34.73%) GitLab
2 51 (30.54%) Jenkins
3 39 (23.35%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.39%) Git
5 8 (4.79%) JIRA
6 6 (3.59%) Maven
7 4 (2.40%) Gradle
7 4 (2.40%) Snyk
8 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.20%) Gatling
8 2 (1.20%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (15.57%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.58%) Banking
3 16 (9.58%) Finance
4 6 (3.59%) Retail
5 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Military
6 1 (0.60%) Advertising
6 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (21.56%) Senior
3 30 (17.96%) Developer
4 22 (13.17%) Java Developer
5 20 (11.98%) Architect
6 19 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (10.78%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (10.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 16 (9.58%) Java Engineer
8 16 (9.58%) Lead
9 14 (8.38%) GCP Engineer
9 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (7.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 10 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.15%) AngularJS
2 37 (22.16%) Quarkus
3 33 (19.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 22 (13.17%) Kafka
5 17 (10.18%) Node.js
6 16 (9.58%) React
7 15 (8.98%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.78%) Spring
9 9 (5.39%) Express.js
9 9 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.79%) Loki
10 8 (4.79%) OAuth
10 8 (4.79%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.19%) Keycloak
12 6 (3.59%) Apache Avro
12 6 (3.59%) LangChain
12 6 (3.59%) OpenID
13 5 (2.99%) JWT
14 4 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
14 4 (2.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (33.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.19%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.80%) Blog
6 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.20%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.20%) Replication
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.60%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.17%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.40%) VMS
4 2 (1.20%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (66.47%) CI/CD
2 93 (55.69%) DevOps
3 82 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (44.31%) Containerisation
5 70 (41.92%) GitOps
6 63 (37.72%) Agile
7 57 (34.13%) Observability
8 54 (32.34%) DevSecOps
9 46 (27.54%) Front End Development
10 43 (25.75%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (25.15%) Software Engineering
12 38 (22.75%) SDLC
13 37 (22.16%) Sprint Planning
13 37 (22.16%) Test Automation
14 36 (21.56%) Scrum
15 35 (20.96%) Unit Testing
16 31 (18.56%) Migration
16 31 (18.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (18.56%) Sprint Review
17 29 (17.37%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 60 (35.93%) Python
2 51 (30.54%) Java
3 49 (29.34%) Bash
4 11 (6.59%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.39%) Go
6 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.19%) SQL
7 6 (3.59%) Bicep
8 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) Cypher
10 1 (0.60%) R
10 1 (0.60%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 57 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 52 (31.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) OCP
3 9 (5.39%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.19%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) RHCA
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.20%) Degree
8 2 (1.20%) NCDA
8 2 (1.20%) NCIE
8 2 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.96%) QA
2 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.40%) NCSC
3 4 (2.40%) PSD2
3 4 (2.40%) SEPA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (25.15%) Docker
2 22 (13.17%) vSphere
3 20 (11.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (11.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.20%) Ceph
6 2 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.20%) NFS
6 2 (1.20%) SRDF
6 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 154 (92.22%) Kubernetes
2 96 (57.49%) Terraform
3 71 (42.51%) Grafana
4 50 (29.94%) Prometheus
5 47 (28.14%) Ansible
6 23 (13.77%) Istio
7 21 (12.57%) vCenter Server
8 10 (5.99%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (4.79%) Kustomize
9 8 (4.79%) linkerd
10 5 (2.99%) Cilium
10 5 (2.99%) Puppet
11 4 (2.40%) Nagios
12 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.80%) Rancher
13 2 (1.20%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.20%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.20%) Podman
13 2 (1.20%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.20%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 67 (40.12%) Red Hat
2 33 (19.76%) VMware
3 25 (14.97%) Splunk
4 21 (12.57%) Pure Storage
5 14 (8.38%) Google
6 4 (2.40%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle
7 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.80%) Veeam
8 2 (1.20%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.20%) Brocade
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco
8 2 (1.20%) Confluent
8 2 (1.20%) Dell
8 2 (1.20%) EMC
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) NetApp
8 2 (1.20%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.60%) webMethods