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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 477 526
Rank change year-on-year -4 +49 +94
Contract jobs citing Argo 188 75 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.66% 1.46% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 47 39
10th Percentile £401 £440 £438
25th Percentile £505 £505 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £493
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% +14.10% -26.09%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £566
90th Percentile £688 £667 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +3.80% +1.42% -25.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
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 7,074 5,147 5,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.33% 15.63% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,801 3,394 3,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -3.56% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 75 83
10th Percentile £18.15 £13.75 £17.14
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.56 £21.29
Median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.31% +25.00% -48.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.25 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.45% +69.23% -29.62%

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 26 July 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
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 26 July 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 +2 165 £540 +2.86% 62
UK excluding London +8 129 £519 +3.80% 30
North of England -13 70 £517 -8.18% 12
Work from Home -24 67 £620 +14.29% 30
London -56 46 £625 +8.70% 36
Yorkshire - 31 £517 - 2
North East -20 28 £511 -9.11% 2
South East -52 27 £513 +2.50% 8
South West - 24 £525 - 2
North West - 11 £633 - 8
Scotland -7 10 £550 -16.92% 4
Midlands -48 7 £563 +40.05% 2
West Midlands -49 7 £563 +40.05% 1
East of England - 5 £549 - 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 13 (6.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.96%) AWS
2 76 (40.43%) OpenShift
3 75 (39.89%) GitHub
4 57 (30.32%) Azure
5 50 (26.60%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (25.53%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (20.74%) GCP
8 25 (13.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 24 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (9.57%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.91%) OCI
12 10 (5.32%) Kong
13 9 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.79%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.72%) Serverless
15 6 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (3.19%) Cloud Run
15 6 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.36%) DNS
2 9 (4.79%) Firewall
3 8 (4.26%) VPN
4 3 (1.60%) HTTP
4 3 (1.60%) SAN
4 3 (1.60%) SSL
5 2 (1.06%) DSL
5 2 (1.06%) NAS
5 2 (1.06%) VSAN
6 1 (0.53%) Calico
6 1 (0.53%) IPsec
6 1 (0.53%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.45%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.32%) Redis
4 9 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.13%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.06%) MySQL
8 2 (1.06%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.53%) Power Query
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (29.26%) Jenkins
2 52 (27.66%) GitLab
3 43 (22.87%) SonarQube
4 12 (6.38%) Git
5 8 (4.26%) JIRA
6 7 (3.72%) Maven
7 5 (2.66%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.13%) Gradle
8 4 (2.13%) Snyk
9 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.06%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.55%) Public Sector
3 17 (9.04%) Finance
4 15 (7.98%) Banking
5 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.06%) Military
6 1 (0.53%) Advertising
6 1 (0.53%) Billing
6 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (26.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (17.55%) Developer
2 33 (17.55%) Senior
3 27 (14.36%) Lead
4 25 (13.30%) Architect
5 20 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (10.11%) Java Developer
7 17 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (9.04%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (9.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 16 (8.51%) Java Engineer
9 14 (7.45%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.26%) Backend Developer
15 7 (3.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.81%) AngularJS
2 38 (20.21%) Quarkus
3 32 (17.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (13.83%) Kafka
5 17 (9.04%) React
6 14 (7.45%) Loki
7 12 (6.38%) Node.js
7 12 (6.38%) OAuth
8 11 (5.85%) OAuth2
9 9 (4.79%) OpenID
9 9 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.26%) Express.js
10 8 (4.26%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.72%) ModSecurity
12 6 (3.19%) JWT
12 6 (3.19%) SAML
12 6 (3.19%) Spring
13 5 (2.66%) WebSockets
14 4 (2.13%) Apache Avro
14 4 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 60 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.19%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.13%) Blog
6 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.13%) Replication
7 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
8 2 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.06%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.70%) Linux
2 5 (2.66%) VMS
3 4 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.06%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 96 (51.06%) DevOps
3 87 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (43.62%) GitOps
5 70 (37.23%) Agile
6 68 (36.17%) Containerisation
7 63 (33.51%) Observability
8 62 (32.98%) DevSecOps
9 47 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
10 46 (24.47%) Software Engineering
11 43 (22.87%) Front End Development
12 41 (21.81%) Scrum
13 40 (21.28%) Test Automation
14 39 (20.74%) Sprint Planning
15 38 (20.21%) SDLC
15 38 (20.21%) Unit Testing
16 34 (18.09%) Migration
16 34 (18.09%) Sprint Review
17 32 (17.02%) Secrets Management
18 29 (15.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.43%) Python
2 57 (30.32%) Bash
3 52 (27.66%) Java
4 16 (8.51%) Go
5 12 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.72%) Bicep
7 7 (3.72%) SQL
8 2 (1.06%) Cypher
8 2 (1.06%) R
8 2 (1.06%) SHACL
8 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) C#
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 70 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 64 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.72%) OCP
5 7 (3.72%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.66%) Degree
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.06%) NCDA
9 2 (1.06%) NCIE
9 2 (1.06%) RHCA
9 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.09%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.13%) PSD2
3 4 (2.13%) SEPA
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (26.60%) Docker
2 21 (11.17%) vSphere
3 20 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (10.11%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.06%) Ceph
6 2 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.06%) NFS
6 2 (1.06%) SRDF
6 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.53%) iptables
Systems Management
1 164 (87.23%) Kubernetes
2 110 (58.51%) Terraform
3 78 (41.49%) Grafana
4 47 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 40 (21.28%) Ansible
6 21 (11.17%) vCenter Server
7 15 (7.98%) Istio
8 9 (4.79%) Kustomize
8 9 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.19%) Cilium
10 4 (2.13%) linkerd
10 4 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.13%) Puppet
11 3 (1.60%) Nagios
12 2 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.06%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.06%) Rancher
12 2 (1.06%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.06%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 63 (33.51%) Red Hat
2 30 (15.96%) VMware
3 25 (13.30%) Splunk
4 21 (11.17%) Pure Storage
5 13 (6.91%) Microsoft
6 12 (6.38%) Oracle
7 10 (5.32%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.79%) Google
9 5 (2.66%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.60%) Cisco
10 3 (1.60%) Veeam
11 2 (1.06%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.06%) Brocade
11 2 (1.06%) Dell
11 2 (1.06%) EMC
11 2 (1.06%) IBM
11 2 (1.06%) NetApp
11 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds