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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 505 566
Rank change year-on-year +57 +61 +173
Contract jobs citing Argo 133 59 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 1.16% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 35 29
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £506 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +0.44% -12.69%
75th Percentile £637 £669 £645
90th Percentile £713 £828 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £466 £528
% change year-on-year +14.81% -11.66% -17.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £46.53 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £49.56 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.88 -
90th Percentile - £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,896 5,072 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.67% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,229 4,324
10th Percentile £312 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 69 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%
75th Percentile £64.88 £50.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.47% -44.78% +77.62%

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 14 December 2025.

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
Top 16 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 14 December 2025. 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 +17 110 £575 - 61
UK excluding London +7 61 £535 +14.81% 53
London +17 53 £615 -5.38% 28
Work from Home +50 52 £600 +5.26% 56
South East +15 20 £500 +11.11% 24
North of England - 19 £569 - 11
North East - 14 £581 - 1
Midlands - 11 £515 - 5
West Midlands - 9 £515 - 3
South West -5 5 £648 +7.11% 6
Scotland - 4 £649 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 3 - - 8
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £538 - 2
Wales - 1 £600 - 2

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 11 (8.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.76%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.26%) Traefik
4 2 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.89%) AWS
2 56 (42.11%) OpenShift
3 54 (40.60%) GitHub
4 38 (28.57%) Azure
4 38 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (26.32%) GCP
6 34 (25.56%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 13 (9.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (6.02%) Slack
11 7 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.26%) IaaS
11 7 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.51%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.51%) Datadog
13 5 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.76%) Pulumi
14 4 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) DNS
2 6 (4.51%) Firewall
3 3 (2.26%) SSH
3 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.50%) Calico
4 2 (1.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) 4G
5 1 (0.75%) 5G
5 1 (0.75%) STUN
5 1 (0.75%) VLAN
5 1 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.52%) Big Data
2 10 (7.52%) Hadoop
3 9 (6.77%) Flink
4 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.76%) Redis
6 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) Parquet
7 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (29.32%) GitLab
1 39 (29.32%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.29%) Git
3 11 (8.27%) SonarQube
4 10 (7.52%) JIRA
5 5 (3.76%) Gradle
6 4 (3.01%) Maven
6 4 (3.01%) Selenium
7 3 (2.26%) MLflow
7 3 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.26%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.50%) Poetry
8 2 (1.50%) PyCharm
8 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.75%) git-flow
9 1 (0.75%) GoCD
9 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Finance
3 14 (10.53%) Banking
3 14 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.02%) Front Office
5 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (30.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.04%) Developer
3 18 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 15 (11.28%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (11.28%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Lead
9 9 (6.77%) Architect
9 9 (6.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Kafka Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (4.51%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.54%) Kafka
2 15 (11.28%) React
3 14 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 14 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (10.53%) Loki
4 13 (9.77%) Keycloak
4 13 (9.77%) Node.js
4 13 (9.77%) Spring
5 11 (8.27%) CSS
5 11 (8.27%) HTML
6 10 (7.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (7.52%) Vue
7 8 (6.02%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (4.51%) .NET
9 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.01%) Flask
10 4 (3.01%) Pandas
10 4 (3.01%) Quarkus
10 4 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.77%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.01%) Replication
6 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.82%) Linux
2 15 (11.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) CentOS
4 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (87.22%) CI/CD
2 82 (61.65%) DevOps
3 65 (48.87%) Containerisation
4 61 (45.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (33.83%) Agile
6 43 (32.33%) GitOps
7 38 (28.57%) Observability
8 35 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (22.56%) Migration
10 29 (21.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (21.05%) Microservices
12 27 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (12.03%) DevSecOps
14 15 (11.28%) Test Automation
15 14 (10.53%) Incident Response
16 13 (9.77%) Mentoring
17 12 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
17 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Automation
17 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Management
17 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (66.92%) Python
2 48 (36.09%) Bash
3 44 (33.08%) Java
4 19 (14.29%) Go
5 16 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.02%) Ruby
8 6 (4.51%) Groovy
8 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.26%) SQL
10 2 (1.50%) C#
10 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (46.62%) Security Cleared
2 55 (41.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.26%) Degree
5 6 (4.51%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) NCSC
3 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.50%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (45.11%) Docker
2 18 (13.53%) vSphere
3 16 (12.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.75%) etcd
5 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (91.73%) Kubernetes
2 79 (59.40%) Terraform
3 48 (36.09%) Grafana
4 43 (32.33%) Ansible
5 32 (24.06%) Prometheus
6 22 (16.54%) Istio
7 11 (8.27%) Kustomize
8 10 (7.52%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.01%) Rancher
10 3 (2.26%) linkerd
10 3 (2.26%) Nagios
10 3 (2.26%) Podman
11 2 (1.50%) Karpenter
11 2 (1.50%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.75%) Packer
12 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (38.35%) Red Hat
2 23 (17.29%) VMware
3 16 (12.03%) Google
3 16 (12.03%) Splunk
4 9 (6.77%) Pure Storage
5 5 (3.76%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.26%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle
7 2 (1.50%) IBM
7 2 (1.50%) Qualys
8 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.75%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.75%) F5
8 1 (0.75%) Intel
8 1 (0.75%) NetApp
8 1 (0.75%) Nokia
8 1 (0.75%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.75%) Veracode