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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 460 535
Rank change year-on-year +1 +75 +130
Contract jobs citing Argo 157 57 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.45% 1.22% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 42 33
10th Percentile £400 £466 £438
25th Percentile £479 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +10.68% -22.79%
75th Percentile £652 £647 £600
90th Percentile £776 £698 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.20% -23.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 6,407 4,666 5,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.84% 15.84% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 3,207 3,660
10th Percentile £320 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 50 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £21.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £73.00 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -34.86%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -16 137 £525 -7.89% 35
UK excluding London -4 102 £510 +1.95% 23
Work from Home +5 56 £575 +0.88% 20
North of England - 47 £517 - 8
London -50 40 £675 +20.00% 12
South East -26 32 £475 -5.00% 6
Yorkshire - 22 £511 -
North East - 18 £556 - 5
South West - 12 £500 - 8
West Midlands -53 9 £525 +10.53%
Midlands -58 9 £525 +10.53%
North West - 7 £633 - 3
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 (2.55%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.77%) GitHub
2 73 (46.50%) OpenShift
3 70 (44.59%) AWS
4 53 (33.76%) GitHub Actions
5 40 (25.48%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (25.48%) Azure
6 31 (19.75%) GCP
7 20 (12.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 18 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.46%) Cloud Run
11 6 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.82%) Google Gemini
11 6 (3.82%) Stackdriver
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.56%) DNS
2 7 (4.46%) VPN
3 4 (2.55%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) SAN
4 2 (1.27%) VSAN
5 1 (0.64%) IPsec
5 1 (0.64%) NAS
5 1 (0.64%) Network Security
5 1 (0.64%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.19%) Redis
3 10 (6.37%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.10%) Flink
5 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.91%) Big Data
8 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.91%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) MySQL
10 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (37.58%) GitLab
2 51 (32.48%) Jenkins
3 25 (15.92%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.10%) JIRA
5 7 (4.46%) Git
6 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.27%) Gatling
7 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) git-flow
8 1 (0.64%) GoCD
8 1 (0.64%) Gradle
8 1 (0.64%) Maven
8 1 (0.64%) Snyk
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.64%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.01%) Banking
3 17 (10.83%) Finance
4 14 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.10%) Front Office
6 6 (3.82%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (37.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.11%) Senior
3 19 (12.10%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) Architect
5 17 (10.83%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (10.83%) Developer
6 16 (10.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Senior DevOps
6 16 (10.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 15 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) Java Developer
9 13 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (8.28%) Lead
10 12 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (7.64%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.37%) GCP Engineer
11 10 (6.37%) Java Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 7 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.02%) Kafka
2 32 (20.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 30 (19.11%) AngularJS
4 26 (16.56%) Quarkus
5 13 (8.28%) Spring Boot
6 12 (7.64%) React
6 12 (7.64%) Spring
7 11 (7.01%) Loki
8 10 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (5.73%) Keycloak
10 7 (4.46%) Node.js
11 6 (3.82%) LangChain
11 6 (3.82%) OpenID
12 5 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.18%) OAuth
12 5 (3.18%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.91%) .NET
13 3 (1.91%) Apache Avro
14 2 (1.27%) Flash
14 2 (1.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (32.48%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.46%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.82%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.64%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.64%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.64%) Replication
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.83%) Linux
2 11 (7.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.91%) Windows
4 2 (1.27%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.64%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (71.34%) CI/CD
2 103 (65.61%) DevOps
3 81 (51.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (49.04%) Containerisation
5 63 (40.13%) GitOps
6 56 (35.67%) Agile
7 47 (29.94%) DevSecOps
8 46 (29.30%) Platform Engineering
9 45 (28.66%) Observability
10 40 (25.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 37 (23.57%) Front End Development
12 35 (22.29%) Migration
13 32 (20.38%) Software Engineering
14 29 (18.47%) Sprint Planning
15 28 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (17.83%) Scrum
16 27 (17.20%) SDLC
16 27 (17.20%) Test Automation
17 26 (16.56%) High Availability
18 25 (15.92%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.32%) Python
2 58 (36.94%) Bash
3 48 (30.57%) Java
4 12 (7.64%) Go
5 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.82%) Bicep
6 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.55%) SQL
8 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) Groovy
9 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 52 (33.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) OCP
3 9 (5.73%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.91%) RHCA
8 2 (1.27%) Degree
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) NCDA
9 1 (0.64%) NCIE
9 1 (0.64%) RHCE
9 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.92%) QA
2 6 (3.82%) NCSC
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.27%) PSD2
3 2 (1.27%) SEPA
4 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (26.75%) Docker
2 28 (17.83%) vSphere
3 24 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (14.65%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.27%) Ceph
6 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.64%) iptables
7 1 (0.64%) NFS
7 1 (0.64%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 151 (96.18%) Kubernetes
2 97 (61.78%) Terraform
3 69 (43.95%) Grafana
4 62 (39.49%) Ansible
5 50 (31.85%) Prometheus
6 24 (15.29%) vCenter Server
7 21 (13.38%) Istio
8 8 (5.10%) linkerd
9 7 (4.46%) Rancher
10 6 (3.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (3.82%) Nagios
11 4 (2.55%) Puppet
12 3 (1.91%) Podman
13 2 (1.27%) Karpenter
13 2 (1.27%) Opsgenie
13 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (35.67%) Red Hat
2 41 (26.11%) VMware
3 31 (19.75%) Splunk
4 23 (14.65%) Pure Storage
5 11 (7.01%) Google
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) F5
8 2 (1.27%) NetApp
8 2 (1.27%) Qualys
8 2 (1.27%) Veeam
9 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.64%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) New Relic
9 1 (0.64%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow