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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 470 521
Rank change year-on-year -21 +51 +81
Contract jobs citing Argo 179 80 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.51% 1.55% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 48 35
10th Percentile £410 £400 £450
25th Percentile £505 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £547 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +6.12% -22.67%
75th Percentile £646 £615 £635
90th Percentile £688 £666 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.64% +10.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
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 7,133 5,162 5,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.60% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,826 3,396 3,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 81 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £29.31 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.31 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.85% +2.62% -37.63%
75th Percentile £70.69 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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 16 August 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
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 16 August 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 -22 154 £546 +3.98% 17
UK excluding London +6 121 £519 -5.64% 16
Work from Home -38 67 £620 +18.10% 12
North of England -18 65 £514 -7.60% 9
London -64 44 £625 +15.10% 5
North East -18 30 £511 -8.09% 2
South East -49 27 £513 +2.50% 3
Yorkshire - 24 £514 -
South West -28 22 £525 -4.55% 2
Scotland -3 12 £550 -16.92% 2
North West - 11 £633 - 7
Midlands -47 5 £563 +28.39%
West Midlands -50 5 £563 +28.39%
East of England - 5 £549 -

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 15 (8.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.58%) AWS
2 65 (36.31%) GitHub
2 65 (36.31%) OpenShift
3 59 (32.96%) Azure
4 49 (27.37%) GitHub Actions
5 47 (26.26%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (21.79%) GCP
7 25 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (13.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.82%) OCI
10 12 (6.70%) Kong
11 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.03%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.47%) Serverless
13 7 (3.91%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.91%) Cloudflare
14 6 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.35%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) DNS
2 10 (5.59%) Firewall
3 8 (4.47%) VPN
4 4 (2.23%) HTTP
5 3 (1.68%) SAN
5 3 (1.68%) SSL
6 2 (1.12%) DSL
6 2 (1.12%) NAS
6 2 (1.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.56%) Calico
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.59%) Redis
4 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.79%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.79%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.56%) Power Query
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 53 (29.61%) GitLab
2 44 (24.58%) Jenkins
2 44 (24.58%) SonarQube
3 14 (7.82%) Git
4 9 (5.03%) JIRA
4 9 (5.03%) Maven
5 7 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.79%) Gradle
7 4 (2.23%) Snyk
8 3 (1.68%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) TestRail
General
1 29 (16.20%) Public Sector
2 28 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Finance
4 15 (8.38%) Banking
5 4 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.12%) Billing
6 2 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Advertising
7 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 46 (25.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.23%) Developer
3 31 (17.32%) Senior
4 25 (13.97%) Lead
5 22 (12.29%) Java Developer
6 20 (11.17%) Architect
7 18 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (9.50%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.94%) Java Engineer
9 16 (8.94%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (8.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.26%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Backend Developer
14 8 (4.47%) GCP Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (22.91%) AngularJS
2 39 (21.79%) Quarkus
3 28 (15.64%) Kafka
4 27 (15.08%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (9.50%) React
6 14 (7.82%) Loki
7 13 (7.26%) OAuth
8 12 (6.70%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.15%) Node.js
10 10 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (5.03%) OpenID
11 9 (5.03%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.47%) Express.js
13 7 (3.91%) JWT
13 7 (3.91%) ModSecurity
13 7 (3.91%) SAML
13 7 (3.91%) Spring
14 6 (3.35%) WebSockets
15 5 (2.79%) Apache Avro
15 5 (2.79%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.35%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.23%) Blog
5 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.23%) Replication
6 3 (1.68%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.68%) PKI
6 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) VMS
3 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.92%) CI/CD
2 85 (47.49%) DevOps
3 82 (45.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (45.25%) GitOps
5 69 (38.55%) Agile
6 64 (35.75%) DevSecOps
7 62 (34.64%) Observability
8 55 (30.73%) Containerisation
9 48 (26.82%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (26.82%) Software Engineering
10 43 (24.02%) Front End Development
10 43 (24.02%) Scrum
11 41 (22.91%) Test Automation
12 39 (21.79%) Sprint Planning
12 39 (21.79%) Unit Testing
13 38 (21.23%) SDLC
14 35 (19.55%) Sprint Review
15 32 (17.88%) Secrets Management
16 24 (13.41%) Migration
16 24 (13.41%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.99%) Python
2 54 (30.17%) Java
3 47 (26.26%) Bash
4 16 (8.94%) Go
5 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.03%) SQL
8 6 (3.35%) Bicep
9 2 (1.12%) Cypher
9 2 (1.12%) Groovy
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) SHACL
9 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 68 (37.99%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.75%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.91%) Degree
6 6 (3.35%) OCP
6 6 (3.35%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.12%) NCDA
10 2 (1.12%) NCIE
10 2 (1.12%) RHCA
10 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.56%) CISM
11 1 (0.56%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.55%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.79%) PSD2
3 5 (2.79%) SEPA
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (27.37%) Docker
2 15 (8.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.15%) vSphere
4 9 (5.03%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.12%) Ceph
6 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.12%) NFS
6 2 (1.12%) SRDF
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 157 (87.71%) Kubernetes
2 103 (57.54%) Terraform
3 70 (39.11%) Grafana
4 42 (23.46%) Prometheus
5 30 (16.76%) Ansible
6 15 (8.38%) Istio
7 11 (6.15%) vCenter Server
8 9 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.91%) Kustomize
10 6 (3.35%) Cilium
11 5 (2.79%) linkerd
12 3 (1.68%) Packer
12 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.68%) Puppet
13 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.12%) Nagios
13 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.12%) Rancher
13 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 58 (32.40%) Red Hat
2 21 (11.73%) VMware
3 20 (11.17%) Splunk
4 15 (8.38%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.82%) Oracle
6 11 (6.15%) Pure Storage
7 10 (5.59%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.59%) Google
8 6 (3.35%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.68%) Cisco
9 3 (1.68%) EMC
9 3 (1.68%) Veeam
10 2 (1.12%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.12%) Brocade
10 2 (1.12%) Dell
10 2 (1.12%) FactSet
10 2 (1.12%) NetApp
10 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds