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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 472 525
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 +72
Contract jobs citing Argo 179 80 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.54% 1.54% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 48 35
10th Percentile £410 £405 £438
25th Percentile £505 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +10.00% -25.04%
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 34 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - -
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 7,047 5,198 5,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.21% 15.68% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,784 3,435 3,655
10th Percentile £325 £300 £302
25th Percentile £425 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £503 £523
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -3.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 77 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -38.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £58.13
90th Percentile £78.90 £77.98 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.07 £55.00 £43.09
% change year-on-year +14.67% +27.64% -6.69%

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 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 10 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 -13 155 £543 +3.33% 114
UK excluding London +8 123 £519 -5.64% 49
North of England -3 66 £514 -7.60% 20
Work from Home -17 66 £625 +19.05% 56
London -77 43 £625 +8.70% 73
North East -20 30 £511 -8.09% 5
South East -46 28 £513 +2.50% 7
Yorkshire - 25 £514 - 2
South West -21 22 £525 -4.55% 6
Scotland -2 12 £550 -16.92% 7
North West - 11 £633 - 13
Midlands -49 5 £563 +28.39% 2
West Midlands -49 5 £563 +28.39% 1
East of England - 5 £549 - 5

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 14 (7.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.46%) AWS
2 67 (37.43%) GitHub
2 67 (37.43%) OpenShift
3 59 (32.96%) Azure
4 48 (26.82%) Amazon EKS
4 48 (26.82%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (21.23%) GCP
6 24 (13.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 23 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.82%) OCI
10 11 (6.15%) 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%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.17%) 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 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
1 15 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.03%) Redis
3 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.23%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (27.37%) GitLab
2 45 (25.14%) SonarQube
3 43 (24.02%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.70%) Git
5 8 (4.47%) JIRA
5 8 (4.47%) Maven
6 7 (3.91%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.23%) Gradle
7 4 (2.23%) Snyk
8 3 (1.68%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (16.76%) Public Sector
2 28 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Banking
3 16 (8.94%) Finance
4 3 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.12%) Billing
5 2 (1.12%) Military
6 1 (0.56%) Advertising
6 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 44 (24.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.23%) Developer
3 31 (17.32%) Senior
4 28 (15.64%) Lead
5 22 (12.29%) Java Developer
6 20 (11.17%) Architect
7 18 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (8.94%) Java Engineer
8 16 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (8.94%) Senior DevOps
8 16 (8.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.26%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.46%) AngularJS
2 40 (22.35%) Quarkus
3 27 (15.08%) Kafka
3 27 (15.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 16 (8.94%) React
5 14 (7.82%) Loki
6 12 (6.70%) OAuth
7 11 (6.15%) Node.js
7 11 (6.15%) OAuth2
8 9 (5.03%) OpenID
8 9 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.47%) Express.js
9 8 (4.47%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.91%) ModSecurity
10 7 (3.91%) SAML
11 6 (3.35%) JWT
11 6 (3.35%) Spring
11 6 (3.35%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.79%) Keycloak
13 4 (2.23%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 52 (29.05%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.59%) 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%) Product Ownership
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%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
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
1 117 (65.36%) CI/CD
2 83 (46.37%) DevOps
2 83 (46.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (45.25%) GitOps
4 71 (39.66%) Agile
5 64 (35.75%) DevSecOps
6 61 (34.08%) Observability
7 56 (31.28%) Containerisation
8 48 (26.82%) Software Engineering
9 47 (26.26%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (24.58%) Scrum
11 43 (24.02%) Front End Development
12 41 (22.91%) Test Automation
13 40 (22.35%) Sprint Planning
13 40 (22.35%) Unit Testing
14 39 (21.79%) SDLC
15 36 (20.11%) Sprint Review
16 32 (17.88%) Secrets Management
17 26 (14.53%) Migration
18 24 (13.41%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.55%) Python
2 54 (30.17%) Java
3 48 (26.82%) Bash
4 16 (8.94%) Go
5 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.47%) SQL
9 6 (3.35%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) Cypher
10 2 (1.12%) R
10 2 (1.12%) SHACL
10 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 66 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) 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%) Master's Degree
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 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (26.82%) Docker
2 16 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.26%) vSphere
4 11 (6.15%) 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
1 156 (87.15%) Kubernetes
2 102 (56.98%) Terraform
3 68 (37.99%) Grafana
4 40 (22.35%) Prometheus
5 32 (17.88%) Ansible
6 14 (7.82%) Istio
7 13 (7.26%) vCenter Server
8 9 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.91%) Kustomize
10 6 (3.35%) Cilium
11 4 (2.23%) linkerd
11 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.23%) Puppet
12 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.12%) Nagios
12 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.12%) Rancher
12 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 60 (33.52%) Red Hat
2 23 (12.85%) VMware
3 21 (11.73%) Splunk
4 16 (8.94%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.82%) Oracle
6 13 (7.26%) Pure Storage
7 10 (5.59%) Dynatrace
8 9 (5.03%) Google
9 6 (3.35%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.68%) Cisco
10 3 (1.68%) EMC
10 3 (1.68%) Veeam
11 2 (1.12%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.12%) Brocade
11 2 (1.12%) Dell
11 2 (1.12%) FactSet
11 2 (1.12%) NetApp
11 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds