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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 469 540
Rank change year-on-year -20 +71 +100
Contract jobs citing Argo 157 57 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.39% 1.23% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 40 33
10th Percentile £400 £459 £438
25th Percentile £500 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.00% -25.48%
75th Percentile £619 £628 £600
90th Percentile £785 £680 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +6.70% -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
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 6,572 4,648 5,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.82% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,477 3,138 3,837
10th Percentile £325 £305 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £494 £495
% change year-on-year +0.71% -0.20% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 49 98
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.77
25th Percentile £24.35 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.25 £53.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.96 £72.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.92% +15.63% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -19 136 £525 -1.69% 38
UK excluding London +11 109 £514 -3.66% 28
Work from Home -12 58 £534 -5.53% 24
North of England - 53 £517 - 11
London -72 31 £688 +26.61% 12
South East -45 27 £496 -0.75% 10
Yorkshire - 27 £514 -
South West - 22 £525 - 1
North East - 18 £513 - 6
North West - 8 £633 - 5
West Midlands -47 6 £532 +11.89% 2
Midlands -58 6 £532 +11.89% 3
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland -9 4 £553 -18.15% 3

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 (2.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) nginx
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.77%) OpenShift
2 65 (41.40%) GitHub
3 59 (37.58%) AWS
4 43 (27.39%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (26.75%) Azure
6 40 (25.48%) GCP
7 31 (19.75%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (15.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.37%) Cloud Run
11 7 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.82%) Google Gemini
12 6 (3.82%) Stackdriver
13 5 (3.18%) Apigee
13 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.01%) DNS
2 8 (5.10%) VPN
3 5 (3.18%) Firewall
4 3 (1.91%) SAN
5 2 (1.27%) NAS
5 2 (1.27%) VSAN
6 1 (0.64%) Calico
6 1 (0.64%) DSL
6 1 (0.64%) IPsec
6 1 (0.64%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.55%) Redis
2 14 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.28%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.82%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Flink
10 1 (0.64%) MySQL
10 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (35.67%) GitLab
2 50 (31.85%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.11%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.73%) Git
5 8 (5.10%) JIRA
6 6 (3.82%) Maven
7 4 (2.55%) Gradle
7 4 (2.55%) Snyk
8 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.27%) Gatling
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.64%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.64%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (16.56%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.19%) Banking
3 16 (10.19%) Finance
4 6 (3.82%) Retail
5 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (0.64%) Advertising
6 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.64%) Front Office
6 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (32.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.93%) Senior
3 27 (17.20%) Developer
4 20 (12.74%) Architect
5 19 (12.10%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (11.46%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.83%) Lead
8 14 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) GCP Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (7.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) Java Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Backend Developer
12 8 (5.10%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.02%) AngularJS
1 33 (21.02%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (17.83%) Quarkus
3 23 (14.65%) Kafka
4 17 (10.83%) Node.js
4 17 (10.83%) React
5 15 (9.55%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.28%) Spring
7 9 (5.73%) Express.js
7 9 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (5.10%) Loki
8 8 (5.10%) OAuth
8 8 (5.10%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.46%) Keycloak
10 6 (3.82%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.82%) LangChain
10 6 (3.82%) OpenID
11 5 (3.18%) JWT
12 4 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
12 4 (2.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.39%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.46%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.91%) Blog
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.38%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.55%) VMS
4 2 (1.27%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (70.06%) CI/CD
2 93 (59.24%) DevOps
3 81 (51.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (46.50%) Containerisation
5 67 (42.68%) GitOps
6 55 (35.03%) Observability
7 54 (34.39%) Agile
8 45 (28.66%) DevSecOps
9 44 (28.03%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (23.57%) Front End Development
11 36 (22.93%) Software Engineering
12 31 (19.75%) Migration
13 30 (19.11%) SDLC
13 30 (19.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (17.83%) Sprint Planning
14 28 (17.83%) Test Automation
15 27 (17.20%) High Availability
15 27 (17.20%) Scrum
16 26 (16.56%) Unit Testing
17 25 (15.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.58%) Python
2 48 (30.57%) Bash
3 43 (27.39%) Java
4 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.37%) Go
6 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.46%) SQL
7 6 (3.82%) Bicep
8 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) Cypher
10 1 (0.64%) R
10 1 (0.64%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 51 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) OCP
3 9 (5.73%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) RHCA
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.27%) Degree
8 2 (1.27%) NCDA
8 2 (1.27%) NCIE
8 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.56%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) NCSC
3 4 (2.55%) PSD2
3 4 (2.55%) SEPA
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (26.11%) Docker
2 22 (14.01%) vSphere
3 20 (12.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.10%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.27%) Ceph
6 2 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 2 (1.27%) SRDF
6 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) iptables
Systems Management
1 143 (91.08%) Kubernetes
2 95 (60.51%) Terraform
3 69 (43.95%) Grafana
4 48 (30.57%) Prometheus
5 47 (29.94%) Ansible
6 22 (14.01%) Istio
7 21 (13.38%) vCenter Server
8 10 (6.37%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (4.46%) Kustomize
9 7 (4.46%) linkerd
10 5 (3.18%) Cilium
10 5 (3.18%) Puppet
11 3 (1.91%) Nagios
11 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.91%) Rancher
12 2 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.27%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.27%) Podman
12 2 (1.27%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 58 (36.94%) Red Hat
2 33 (21.02%) VMware
3 24 (15.29%) Splunk
4 21 (13.38%) Pure Storage
5 14 (8.92%) Google
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) Veeam
8 2 (1.27%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.27%) Brocade
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) Dell
8 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.27%) EMC
8 2 (1.27%) IBM
8 2 (1.27%) NetApp
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.64%) Tanium