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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 460 550
Rank change year-on-year -4 +90 +120
Contract jobs citing Argo 148 58 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.35% 1.22% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 38 35
10th Percentile £416 £444 £438
25th Percentile £504 £515 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +10.68% -20.77%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £584
90th Percentile £723 £708 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £577 £515
% change year-on-year -9.89% +11.94% -21.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 6,299 4,745 5,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 16.05% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 3,147 3,820
10th Percentile £314 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 53 152
10th Percentile £18.74 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £64.20 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £76.89 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +128.31% -39.78% -13.14%

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 March 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 March 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 10 March 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 -12 126 £575 +0.88% 42
UK excluding London -7 82 £520 -9.89% 31
Work from Home +7 55 £600 +7.14% 19
London -24 48 £675 +21.35% 10
South East -6 36 £483 -14.90% 10
North of England - 31 £575 - 18
Yorkshire - 14 £514 - 12
North East - 12 £600 - 1
South West -20 7 £648 - 1
Midlands - 7 £515 - 2
West Midlands - 7 £515 - 2
North West - 5 £633 - 5
Scotland - 3 £550 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales -2 1 £600 +2.39%

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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 81 (54.73%) AWS
2 79 (53.38%) GitHub
3 77 (52.03%) OpenShift
4 52 (35.14%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (33.11%) Azure
6 37 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (25.00%) GCP
7 13 (8.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.08%) Amazon S3
9 9 (6.08%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.05%) Cloud Run
11 6 (4.05%) Datadog
11 6 (4.05%) IaaS
11 6 (4.05%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.11%) Redis
3 8 (5.41%) Flink
4 6 (4.05%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.03%) Big Data
7 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.35%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) MySQL
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (35.81%) GitLab
2 52 (35.14%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.16%) Git
4 13 (8.78%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.73%) JIRA
6 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.35%) Gatling
7 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) GoCD
8 1 (0.68%) Gradle
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.84%) Banking
3 17 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.81%) Finance
5 8 (5.41%) Front Office
6 6 (4.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (30.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (17.57%) Developer
3 24 (16.22%) Senior
4 17 (11.49%) Architect
4 17 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Lead
10 9 (6.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Site Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) AngularJS
2 26 (17.57%) Kafka
3 25 (16.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (15.54%) React
5 22 (14.86%) Spring
6 19 (12.84%) Node.js
7 15 (10.14%) Loki
8 14 (9.46%) Quarkus
8 14 (9.46%) Spring Boot
9 11 (7.43%) CSS
9 11 (7.43%) HTML
10 10 (6.76%) Vue
11 8 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (5.41%) Keycloak
11 8 (5.41%) Ruby on Rails
12 7 (4.73%) OpenID
13 6 (4.05%) LangChain
14 5 (3.38%) .NET
14 5 (3.38%) OAuth
14 5 (3.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.49%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.08%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.97%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (81.08%) CI/CD
2 98 (66.22%) DevOps
3 85 (57.43%) Containerisation
4 74 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (37.16%) Agile
6 50 (33.78%) GitOps
6 50 (33.78%) Observability
7 38 (25.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 35 (23.65%) DevSecOps
9 34 (22.97%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (19.59%) Microservices
12 26 (17.57%) Front End Development
13 25 (16.89%) Migration
14 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
15 21 (14.19%) Load Balancing
16 19 (12.84%) RBAC
16 19 (12.84%) Test Automation
17 18 (12.16%) Sprint Planning
18 17 (11.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 93 (62.84%) Python
2 57 (38.51%) Bash
3 47 (31.76%) Java
4 15 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.78%) Go
7 10 (6.76%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.41%) Ruby
9 4 (2.70%) Bicep
10 3 (2.03%) Groovy
10 3 (2.03%) SQL
11 1 (0.68%) C#
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 63 (42.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.41%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.38%) OCP
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) NCSC
3 2 (1.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.35%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) PSD2
3 2 (1.35%) SEPA
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (41.89%) Docker
2 31 (20.95%) vSphere
3 22 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (14.86%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (91.89%) Kubernetes
2 90 (60.81%) Terraform
3 68 (45.95%) Grafana
4 53 (35.81%) Ansible
5 52 (35.14%) Prometheus
6 22 (14.86%) vCenter Server
7 18 (12.16%) Istio
8 12 (8.11%) Kustomize
9 8 (5.41%) linkerd
10 6 (4.05%) Rancher
11 5 (3.38%) Nagios
11 5 (3.38%) Podman
12 3 (2.03%) Karpenter
12 3 (2.03%) Puppet
13 2 (1.35%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (39.19%) Red Hat
2 38 (25.68%) VMware
3 29 (19.59%) Splunk
4 21 (14.19%) Pure Storage
5 18 (12.16%) Google
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.35%) Confluent
7 2 (1.35%) F5
7 2 (1.35%) Qualys
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle
8 1 (0.68%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Veracode