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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 477 570
Rank change year-on-year +24 +93 +134
Contract jobs citing Argo 137 55 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.30% 1.18% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 36 19
10th Percentile £412 £441 £463
25th Percentile £502 £521 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +4.09% -17.54%
75th Percentile £669 £663 £632
90th Percentile £758 £794 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £577 £517
% change year-on-year -11.10% +11.51% -22.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £49.23 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £69.75 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,960 4,679 5,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.51% 15.06% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,119 3,021 4,028
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 60 166
10th Percentile £17.64 £15.22 £14.38
25th Percentile £20.66 £21.05 £20.50
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +11.18%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.19 £61.81
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.08% -48.03% +19.95%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -7 114 £575 - 46
UK excluding London -4 65 £513 -11.10% 30
Work from Home +23 55 £600 +5.26% 28
London -7 53 £675 +17.39% 20
South East +4 31 £480 -15.34% 13
North of England - 18 £575 - 13
North East - 11 £600 - 4
Midlands - 7 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £525 - 1
South West -14 6 £649 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
North West - 2 £538 - 5
Wales 0 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 (2.92%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.19%) Confluence
3 2 (1.46%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.46%) Traefik
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 80 (58.39%) AWS
2 69 (50.36%) OpenShift
3 67 (48.91%) GitHub
4 50 (36.50%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (31.39%) Azure
6 36 (26.28%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (24.82%) GCP
8 11 (8.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.84%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (5.11%) IaaS
12 7 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.38%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.38%) Cloud Run
13 6 (4.38%) Google Gemini
13 6 (4.38%) Stackdriver
14 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) DNS
2 3 (2.19%) Firewall
3 2 (1.46%) Calico
4 1 (0.73%) 4G
4 1 (0.73%) 5G
4 1 (0.73%) Network Security
4 1 (0.73%) VLAN
4 1 (0.73%) VPN
4 1 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.30%) Redis
3 8 (5.84%) Flink
4 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.19%) Big Data
7 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.46%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.73%) MySQL
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (37.23%) GitLab
2 38 (27.74%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.87%) Git
4 9 (6.57%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.84%) JIRA
6 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.46%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.46%) Gatling
7 2 (1.46%) Gradle
8 1 (0.73%) git-flow
8 1 (0.73%) GoCD
8 1 (0.73%) Maven
8 1 (0.73%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.73%) Selenium
8 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.73%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.41%) Banking
2 17 (12.41%) Finance
3 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.84%) Front Office
5 6 (4.38%) Retail
6 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (31.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Developer
3 20 (14.60%) Senior
4 18 (13.14%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (13.14%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Architect
8 11 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.30%) Lead
10 9 (6.57%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Site Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.25%) Kafka
2 23 (16.79%) AngularJS
2 23 (16.79%) React
3 22 (16.06%) Spring
4 20 (14.60%) Loki
5 19 (13.87%) Node.js
6 18 (13.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (10.22%) Spring Boot
8 11 (8.03%) CSS
8 11 (8.03%) HTML
8 11 (8.03%) Keycloak
9 10 (7.30%) Vue
10 9 (6.57%) Quarkus
11 8 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (5.84%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (4.38%) .NET
12 6 (4.38%) LangChain
12 6 (4.38%) OpenID
13 4 (2.92%) OAuth
13 4 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (34.31%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.82%) Linux
2 15 (10.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.73%) CentOS
4 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (84.67%) CI/CD
2 87 (63.50%) DevOps
3 71 (51.82%) Containerisation
4 68 (49.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (36.50%) Observability
6 49 (35.77%) Agile
6 49 (35.77%) GitOps
7 38 (27.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 35 (25.55%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (24.09%) Microservices
10 29 (21.17%) DevSecOps
11 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.60%) Front End Development
12 20 (14.60%) Software Engineering
13 18 (13.14%) Migration
14 16 (11.68%) Test Automation
15 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (9.49%) Incident Response
16 13 (9.49%) SDLC
16 13 (9.49%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 86 (62.77%) Python
2 48 (35.04%) Bash
3 45 (32.85%) Java
4 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.68%) Go
6 15 (10.95%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.84%) Ruby
8 5 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.19%) Groovy
9 3 (2.19%) SQL
10 2 (1.46%) C#
10 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 66 (48.18%) Security Cleared
2 58 (42.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
3 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.46%) OCP
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.68%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) NCSC
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) PSD2
3 2 (1.46%) SEPA
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
3 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (46.72%) Docker
2 21 (15.33%) vSphere
3 17 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (8.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.73%) etcd
5 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (91.97%) Kubernetes
2 80 (58.39%) Terraform
3 60 (43.80%) Grafana
4 48 (35.04%) Prometheus
5 44 (32.12%) Ansible
6 19 (13.87%) Istio
7 14 (10.22%) Kustomize
8 12 (8.76%) vCenter Server
9 6 (4.38%) linkerd
10 5 (3.65%) Nagios
10 5 (3.65%) Rancher
11 4 (2.92%) Podman
12 3 (2.19%) Karpenter
13 2 (1.46%) Opsgenie
13 2 (1.46%) Puppet
14 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (39.42%) Red Hat
2 29 (21.17%) VMware
3 20 (14.60%) Splunk
4 18 (13.14%) Google
5 11 (8.03%) Pure Storage
6 2 (1.46%) Confluent
6 2 (1.46%) F5
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.46%) Qualys
7 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco
7 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.73%) Intel
7 1 (0.73%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.73%) NetApp
7 1 (0.73%) Nokia
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle
7 1 (0.73%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.73%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.73%) SAP