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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 464 552
Rank change year-on-year 0 +88 +110
Contract jobs citing Argo 154 59 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.38% 1.28% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 42 32
10th Percentile £400 £466 £438
25th Percentile £496 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.49% -23.35%
75th Percentile £652 £647 £581
90th Percentile £782 £698 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.20% -23.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 6,467 4,603 5,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.67% 15.69% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,452 3,148 3,670
10th Percentile £325 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 51 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.61 £19.05 £17.77
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £76.95 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -9.41%

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 2 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 2 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 15 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 2 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 -10 134 £525 -7.65% 32
UK excluding London -6 101 £513 +2.50% 21
Work from Home -11 57 £538 -5.70% 20
North of England - 48 £514 - 7
London -54 38 £675 +22.73% 13
South East -29 29 £456 -8.75% 7
Yorkshire - 22 £511 -
North East - 19 £513 - 5
South West - 13 £500 - 6
West Midlands -53 9 £525 +10.53%
Midlands -61 9 £525 +10.53%
North West - 7 £633 - 2
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland - 4 £553 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (2.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.95%) Confluence
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) GitHub
2 72 (46.75%) OpenShift
3 64 (41.56%) AWS
4 51 (33.12%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (24.68%) Azure
6 37 (24.03%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (20.78%) GCP
8 20 (12.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.19%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.19%) Cloud Run
11 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.90%) Google Gemini
12 6 (3.90%) Stackdriver
13 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.60%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.94%) DNS
2 7 (4.55%) VPN
3 2 (1.30%) Firewall
3 2 (1.30%) 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 16 (10.39%) Redis
2 15 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.90%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.90%) Flink
5 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.60%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.30%) Big Data
8 2 (1.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 57 (37.01%) GitLab
2 51 (33.12%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.83%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.84%) JIRA
5 8 (5.19%) Git
6 3 (1.95%) Maven
7 2 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.30%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.30%) Gatling
7 2 (1.30%) Gradle
7 2 (1.30%) Snyk
7 2 (1.30%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.65%) git-flow
8 1 (0.65%) GoCD
8 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.99%) Banking
3 16 (10.39%) Finance
3 16 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.90%) Front Office
4 6 (3.90%) Retail
5 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.48%) Senior
3 20 (12.99%) Developer
4 17 (11.04%) Architect
4 17 (11.04%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (9.74%) Java Developer
5 15 (9.74%) Senior DevOps
5 15 (9.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Lead
8 12 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 32 (20.78%) Kafka
2 32 (20.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (18.83%) Quarkus
4 13 (8.44%) React
4 13 (8.44%) Spring
4 13 (8.44%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.84%) Keycloak
6 9 (5.84%) Node.js
7 8 (5.19%) Loki
8 6 (3.90%) LangChain
8 6 (3.90%) OAuth
8 6 (3.90%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.90%) OpenID
9 4 (2.60%) Apache Avro
9 4 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.95%) .NET
10 3 (1.95%) Express.js
11 2 (1.30%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.60%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.65%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) PKI
9 1 (0.65%) Replication
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.95%) Windows
4 2 (1.30%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (69.48%) CI/CD
2 98 (63.64%) DevOps
3 76 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (48.70%) Containerisation
5 62 (40.26%) GitOps
6 55 (35.71%) Agile
7 49 (31.82%) DevSecOps
8 44 (28.57%) Observability
8 44 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
9 39 (25.32%) Front End Development
10 36 (23.38%) Software Engineering
11 35 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (21.43%) Migration
13 32 (20.78%) Sprint Planning
14 30 (19.48%) Scrum
14 30 (19.48%) SDLC
15 29 (18.83%) Test Automation
16 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (17.53%) Unit Testing
17 25 (16.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 70 (45.45%) Python
2 52 (33.77%) Bash
3 49 (31.82%) Java
4 12 (7.79%) Go
5 10 (6.49%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.90%) Bicep
8 5 (3.25%) SQL
9 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 48 (31.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.84%) OCP
3 9 (5.84%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.95%) RHCA
8 2 (1.30%) Degree
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) NCDA
9 1 (0.65%) NCIE
9 1 (0.65%) RHCE
9 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.18%) QA
2 6 (3.90%) NCSC
3 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.95%) PSD2
3 3 (1.95%) SEPA
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (25.97%) Docker
2 23 (14.94%) vSphere
3 21 (13.64%) VMware NSX
4 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.30%) 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
1 147 (95.45%) Kubernetes
2 94 (61.04%) Terraform
3 66 (42.86%) Grafana
4 57 (37.01%) Ansible
5 45 (29.22%) Prometheus
6 22 (14.29%) vCenter Server
7 19 (12.34%) Istio
8 8 (5.19%) linkerd
9 6 (3.90%) Rancher
10 5 (3.25%) Nagios
11 4 (2.60%) Puppet
12 3 (1.95%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.30%) Karpenter
13 2 (1.30%) Opsgenie
13 2 (1.30%) Podman
13 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 36 (23.38%) VMware
3 31 (20.13%) Splunk
4 22 (14.29%) Pure Storage
5 12 (7.79%) Google
6 4 (2.60%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.30%) Confluent
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle
7 2 (1.30%) Qualys
7 2 (1.30%) Veeam
8 1 (0.65%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.65%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.65%) Veracode