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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 471 535
Rank change year-on-year -23 +64 +97
Contract jobs citing Argo 157 61 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.29% 1.27% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 40 36
10th Percentile £400 £459 £438
25th Percentile £504 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £497
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.78% -25.56%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £548
90th Percentile £681 £675 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £500 £497
% change year-on-year +3.30% +0.70% -25.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 0 0
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
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 6,846 4,813 5,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.75% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 3,204 3,831
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 54 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £20.54 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -6.98%

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 29 June 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 29 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

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 29 June 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 -18 137 £525 - 48
UK excluding London +5 116 £517 +3.30% 31
North of England - 61 £514 - 11
Work from Home -29 57 £543 -3.13% 28
London -67 27 £648 +19.24% 19
Yorkshire - 27 £514 - 2
South East -39 25 £513 +2.50% 7
North East - 25 £511 - 3
South West - 23 £525 - 6
North West - 9 £633 - 6
Scotland -3 6 £555 -17.78% 1
Midlands -51 6 £532 +11.89% 5
West Midlands -53 6 £532 +11.89% 3
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 3 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) nginx
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.32%) OpenShift
2 55 (35.03%) AWS
2 55 (35.03%) GitHub
3 40 (25.48%) Azure
4 34 (21.66%) GCP
5 31 (19.75%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (18.47%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (14.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 20 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.18%) Cloud Run
12 5 (3.18%) Kong
13 4 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.55%) Apigee
13 4 (2.55%) Figma
13 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.29%) DNS
2 8 (5.10%) VPN
3 6 (3.82%) Firewall
4 3 (1.91%) SAN
5 2 (1.27%) NAS
5 2 (1.27%) VSAN
6 1 (0.64%) Calico
6 1 (0.64%) DSL
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) IPsec
6 1 (0.64%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) SSL
6 1 (0.64%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.37%) Redis
3 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.18%) Hazelcast
4 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (31.21%) GitLab
1 49 (31.21%) Jenkins
2 39 (24.84%) SonarQube
3 8 (5.10%) Git
4 7 (4.46%) JIRA
5 6 (3.82%) Maven
6 4 (2.55%) Gradle
6 4 (2.55%) Snyk
7 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.27%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.64%) Gatling
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (16.56%) Public Sector
2 24 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.55%) Banking
3 15 (9.55%) Finance
4 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.27%) Military
5 1 (0.64%) Advertising
5 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (29.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (21.02%) Senior
3 28 (17.83%) Developer
4 21 (13.38%) Architect
5 20 (12.74%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.83%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (10.19%) Java Engineer
9 15 (9.55%) Lead
10 13 (8.28%) Software Engineer
11 11 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (6.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (5.73%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Backend Developer
15 7 (4.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.57%) AngularJS
2 36 (22.93%) Quarkus
3 25 (15.92%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (11.46%) Kafka
5 12 (7.64%) React
6 11 (7.01%) Node.js
7 9 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (5.10%) Express.js
8 8 (5.10%) OAuth
8 8 (5.10%) OAuth2
8 8 (5.10%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.82%) OpenID
9 6 (3.82%) Spring
10 5 (3.18%) Apache Avro
10 5 (3.18%) JWT
10 5 (3.18%) Loki
11 4 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (2.55%) Spring WebFlux
11 4 (2.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (32.48%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.46%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Blog
6 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.91%) Replication
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.27%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.38%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.55%) VMS
4 2 (1.27%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (64.33%) CI/CD
2 85 (54.14%) DevOps
3 69 (43.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (39.49%) Agile
4 62 (39.49%) Containerisation
5 60 (38.22%) GitOps
6 46 (29.30%) DevSecOps
7 44 (28.03%) Observability
8 41 (26.11%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (25.48%) Front End Development
10 38 (24.20%) Software Engineering
11 37 (23.57%) Sprint Planning
12 36 (22.93%) Test Automation
13 35 (22.29%) Scrum
13 35 (22.29%) Unit Testing
14 33 (21.02%) SDLC
15 31 (19.75%) Sprint Review
16 30 (19.11%) Migration
17 28 (17.83%) High Availability
18 25 (15.92%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 54 (34.39%) Python
2 49 (31.21%) Java
3 44 (28.03%) Bash
4 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.37%) Go
6 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) Bicep
8 5 (3.18%) SQL
9 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.64%) Cypher
11 1 (0.64%) R
11 1 (0.64%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 53 (33.76%) Security Cleared
2 48 (30.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) OCP
3 9 (5.73%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.91%) Degree
7 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) RHCA
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.27%) NCDA
8 2 (1.27%) NCIE
8 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.38%) QA
2 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) PSD2
3 4 (2.55%) SEPA
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (22.93%) Docker
2 22 (14.01%) vSphere
3 20 (12.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.10%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.27%) Ceph
6 2 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 2 (1.27%) SRDF
6 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.64%) iptables
Systems Management
1 144 (91.72%) Kubernetes
2 86 (54.78%) Terraform
3 63 (40.13%) Grafana
4 43 (27.39%) Prometheus
5 40 (25.48%) Ansible
6 21 (13.38%) vCenter Server
7 14 (8.92%) Istio
8 10 (6.37%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.10%) Kustomize
10 5 (3.18%) Cilium
11 4 (2.55%) linkerd
11 4 (2.55%) Nagios
12 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.91%) Puppet
13 2 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.27%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.27%) Podman
13 2 (1.27%) Rancher
13 2 (1.27%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.27%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 63 (40.13%) Red Hat
2 29 (18.47%) VMware
3 21 (13.38%) Pure Storage
3 21 (13.38%) Splunk
4 8 (5.10%) Google
5 5 (3.18%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) Veeam
8 2 (1.27%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.27%) Brocade
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) Dell
8 2 (1.27%) EMC
8 2 (1.27%) IBM
8 2 (1.27%) NetApp
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.64%) F5