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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 466 534
Rank change year-on-year -15 +68 +123
Contract jobs citing Argo 150 58 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.33% 1.26% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 43 29
10th Percentile £401 £438 £438
25th Percentile £500 £505 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £641 £644 £530
90th Percentile £782 £695 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 6,432 4,616 5,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 15.71% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,418 3,147 3,690
10th Percentile £325 £310 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +2.10% -8.48%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £711 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £499 £490
% change year-on-year -1.29% +1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 53 112
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.30 £77.46 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year +100.00% -4.35% -32.35%

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 18 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 18 May 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 18 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 -7 131 £525 -6.67% 33
UK excluding London +1 103 £513 +2.50% 20
Work from Home -5 55 £543 -4.82% 26
North of England - 50 £514 - 4
London -48 31 £688 +25.00% 14
South East -35 29 £496 -0.75% 6
Yorkshire - 24 £511 -
North East - 18 £513 -
South West - 18 £525 - 9
North West - 8 £633 - 4
West Midlands -51 6 £525 +10.53% 1
Midlands -57 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland - 3 £553 -

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 (2.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.33%) OpenShift
2 66 (44.00%) GitHub
3 59 (39.33%) AWS
4 44 (29.33%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (24.67%) Azure
6 35 (23.33%) GCP
7 31 (20.67%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (14.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 17 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.67%) Cloud Run
11 6 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.00%) Azure AKS
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.00%) Google Gemini
11 6 (4.00%) Stackdriver
12 5 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.33%) Apigee
13 4 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.67%) DNS
2 8 (5.33%) VPN
3 2 (1.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.33%) SAN
4 1 (0.67%) IPsec
4 1 (0.67%) NAS
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) VSAN
4 1 (0.67%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.33%) Redis
2 14 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.00%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.67%) Flink
6 4 (2.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.33%) Big Data
7 2 (1.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) MySQL
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (37.33%) GitLab
2 48 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 29 (19.33%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.33%) Git
4 8 (5.33%) JIRA
5 6 (4.00%) Maven
6 4 (2.67%) Gradle
6 4 (2.67%) Snyk
7 2 (1.33%) Gatling
7 2 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.33%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) GoCD
8 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.67%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.00%) Banking
4 15 (10.00%) Finance
5 6 (4.00%) Retail
6 4 (2.67%) Front Office
7 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 54 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (22.00%) Senior
3 24 (16.00%) Developer
4 18 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Java Developer
6 16 (10.67%) Architect
6 16 (10.67%) Senior DevOps
6 16 (10.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Lead
8 12 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.33%) AngularJS
2 31 (20.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (18.67%) Kafka
3 28 (18.67%) Quarkus
4 15 (10.00%) React
5 13 (8.67%) Node.js
5 13 (8.67%) Spring
5 13 (8.67%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (5.33%) Keycloak
7 8 (5.33%) Loki
8 7 (4.67%) Express.js
8 7 (4.67%) OAuth
8 7 (4.67%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.00%) Apache Avro
9 6 (4.00%) LangChain
10 5 (3.33%) OpenID
11 4 (2.67%) JPA
11 4 (2.67%) JWT
11 4 (2.67%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.67%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.67%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.67%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.67%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) PKI
8 1 (0.67%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.67%) Linux
2 6 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.33%) CoreOS
3 2 (1.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (69.33%) CI/CD
2 92 (61.33%) DevOps
3 73 (48.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (46.00%) Containerisation
5 63 (42.00%) GitOps
6 54 (36.00%) Agile
7 47 (31.33%) Observability
8 45 (30.00%) DevSecOps
9 43 (28.67%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (25.33%) Front End Development
11 36 (24.00%) Software Engineering
12 32 (21.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (20.67%) Migration
14 30 (20.00%) SDLC
15 29 (19.33%) Sprint Planning
16 28 (18.67%) Scrum
16 28 (18.67%) Test Automation
17 26 (17.33%) Unit Testing
18 25 (16.67%) High Availability
19 23 (15.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.33%) Python
2 48 (32.00%) Bash
3 47 (31.33%) Java
4 10 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.00%) Go
6 7 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.67%) SQL
7 6 (4.00%) Bicep
8 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (35.33%) Security Cleared
2 46 (30.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.00%) OCP
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.00%) RHCA
7 2 (1.33%) Degree
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) NCDA
8 1 (0.67%) NCIE
8 1 (0.67%) RHCE
8 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.33%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.33%) NCSC
4 4 (2.67%) PSD2
4 4 (2.67%) SEPA
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (28.00%) Docker
2 21 (14.00%) vSphere
3 20 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.67%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.33%) Ceph
7 1 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.67%) iptables
7 1 (0.67%) NFS
7 1 (0.67%) SRDF
7 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (92.67%) Kubernetes
2 88 (58.67%) Terraform
3 65 (43.33%) Grafana
4 50 (33.33%) Ansible
5 46 (30.67%) Prometheus
6 20 (13.33%) vCenter Server
7 19 (12.67%) Istio
8 8 (5.33%) linkerd
9 7 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (4.00%) Rancher
11 5 (3.33%) Nagios
12 4 (2.67%) Kustomize
12 4 (2.67%) Puppet
13 3 (2.00%) Cilium
14 2 (1.33%) Podman
14 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.67%) EMC VPLEX
15 1 (0.67%) Packer
15 1 (0.67%) SnapMirror
15 1 (0.67%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 55 (36.67%) Red Hat
2 34 (22.67%) VMware
3 26 (17.33%) Splunk
4 20 (13.33%) Pure Storage
5 13 (8.67%) Google
6 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.33%) Confluent
7 2 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) Veeam
8 1 (0.67%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.67%) Brocade
8 1 (0.67%) F5
8 1 (0.67%) New Relic
8 1 (0.67%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.67%) Tanium
8 1 (0.67%) Tenable
8 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro