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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 470 519
Rank change year-on-year -49 +49 +59
Contract jobs citing Argo 173 87 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.86% 1.89% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 51 29
10th Percentile £443 £400 £450
25th Percentile £506 £511 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.60% -15.59%
75th Percentile £656 £630 £638
90th Percentile £689 £725 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.64% +12.82% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
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 6,059 4,607 4,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 13.98% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 2,979 3,108
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £620
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 88 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.00 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +145.75% -30.85% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.29 £60.63
90th Percentile £87.38 £68.83 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -16.63%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -41 144 £560 +1.82% 204
UK excluding London -31 104 £519 -5.64% 75
Work from Home -40 67 £600 +7.87% 81
North of England -31 50 £516 -6.23% 15
London -68 50 £625 +3.52% 135
North East -30 29 £511 -8.09% 4
South East -37 25 £513 +2.50% 20
South West -14 22 £525 -4.55% 15
Yorkshire - 17 £519 - 4
Scotland -10 12 £475 -28.25% 8
East of England - 5 £549 - 11
West Midlands -49 4 £539 +11.66% 3
Midlands -51 4 £539 +11.66% 5
North West -52 4 - - 7

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 (8.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.66%) AWS
2 60 (34.68%) GitHub
3 59 (34.10%) OpenShift
4 58 (33.53%) Azure
5 51 (29.48%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (26.01%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (21.97%) GCP
8 22 (12.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 20 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (9.83%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.67%) OCI
12 13 (7.51%) Kong
13 9 (5.20%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.62%) Cloudflare
14 8 (4.62%) Serverless
15 7 (4.05%) Akamai
15 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (4.05%) Azure AKS
15 7 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) DNS
2 10 (5.78%) Firewall
3 8 (4.62%) VPN
4 5 (2.89%) HTTP
5 3 (1.73%) SAN
5 3 (1.73%) SSL
6 2 (1.16%) DSL
6 2 (1.16%) NAS
6 2 (1.16%) VSAN
7 1 (0.58%) Calico
7 1 (0.58%) IPsec
7 1 (0.58%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.25%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.78%) Redis
4 7 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.89%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.89%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.73%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.58%) Power Query
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Tableau
9 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (28.32%) GitLab
2 41 (23.70%) SonarQube
3 36 (20.81%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.09%) Git
5 9 (5.20%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) Maven
6 8 (4.62%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.89%) Gradle
7 5 (2.89%) Snyk
8 4 (2.31%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.16%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.16%) TestRail
10 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.58%) PVCS
10 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (14.45%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.40%) Finance
4 14 (8.09%) Banking
5 5 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.16%) Billing
6 2 (1.16%) Front Office
6 2 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (0.58%) Advertising
7 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.58%) German Language
7 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (23.70%) Developer
2 39 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (17.34%) Senior
4 23 (13.29%) Java Developer
4 23 (13.29%) Lead
5 19 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Architect
8 15 (8.67%) Java Engineer
9 13 (7.51%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (7.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Backend Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (54.34%) Terraform
2 38 (21.97%) AngularJS
3 36 (20.81%) Quarkus
4 30 (17.34%) Kafka
5 22 (12.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.98%) React
7 17 (9.83%) Loki
8 14 (8.09%) OAuth
9 13 (7.51%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.36%) Node.js
11 10 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.78%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.20%) OpenID
13 8 (4.62%) Express.js
13 8 (4.62%) ModSecurity
13 8 (4.62%) Spring
14 7 (4.05%) JWT
14 7 (4.05%) pytest
14 7 (4.05%) SAML
14 7 (4.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.47%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.31%) Blog
5 4 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.31%) Replication
6 3 (1.73%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.40%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) VMS
3 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Windows
4 2 (1.16%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (65.32%) CI/CD
2 80 (46.24%) GitOps
3 79 (45.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (43.35%) DevOps
5 66 (38.15%) Agile
5 66 (38.15%) Observability
6 62 (35.84%) DevSecOps
7 49 (28.32%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (27.17%) Containerisation
9 46 (26.59%) Software Engineering
10 41 (23.70%) Scrum
11 40 (23.12%) Front End Development
12 39 (22.54%) Test Automation
13 36 (20.81%) Sprint Planning
13 36 (20.81%) Unit Testing
14 35 (20.23%) SDLC
15 32 (18.50%) Sprint Review
16 27 (15.61%) Runbook
16 27 (15.61%) Secrets Management
17 22 (12.72%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.84%) Python
2 52 (30.06%) Java
3 40 (23.12%) Bash
4 19 (10.98%) Go
5 13 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.78%) SQL
7 9 (5.20%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.73%) Groovy
10 2 (1.16%) Bicep
10 2 (1.16%) Cypher
10 2 (1.16%) R
10 2 (1.16%) SHACL
11 1 (0.58%) C#
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 64 (36.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.47%) Degree
6 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.16%) NCDA
8 2 (1.16%) NCIE
8 2 (1.16%) RHCA
8 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.58%) CISM
9 1 (0.58%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) GSEC
9 1 (0.58%) OCP
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.65%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.89%) PSD2
3 5 (2.89%) SEPA
4 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.73%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (28.32%) Docker
2 8 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.31%) vSphere
4 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.16%) Ceph
5 2 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.16%) NFS
5 2 (1.16%) SRDF
5 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) iptables
Systems Management
1 151 (87.28%) Kubernetes
2 61 (35.26%) Grafana
3 39 (22.54%) Prometheus
4 22 (12.72%) Ansible
5 11 (6.36%) Istio
6 9 (5.20%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.05%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.47%) Cilium
9 4 (2.31%) Packer
9 4 (2.31%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.73%) linkerd
11 2 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.16%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.16%) Nagios
11 2 (1.16%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.16%) Puppet
11 2 (1.16%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.16%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (28.32%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) Oracle
4 13 (7.51%) VMware
5 11 (6.36%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.36%) Google
5 11 (6.36%) Splunk
6 6 (3.47%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.31%) Pure Storage
8 3 (1.73%) Cisco
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
8 3 (1.73%) EMC
8 3 (1.73%) Veeam
9 2 (1.16%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.16%) Brocade
9 2 (1.16%) Dell
9 2 (1.16%) IBM
9 2 (1.16%) NetApp
9 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds