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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 485 575
Rank change year-on-year +28 +90 +193
Contract jobs citing Argo 120 62 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.11% 1.18% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 36 30
10th Percentile £405 £450 £423
25th Percentile £513 £490 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £543 £584
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -7.07% -12.22%
75th Percentile £625 £681 £669
90th Percentile £686 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £493 £519
% change year-on-year +11.56% -5.01% -19.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £45.55 - -
25th Percentile £47.13 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - -
75th Percentile £54.13 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £54.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 - -

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 5,692 5,245 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.27% 14.33% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 3,379 4,833
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 56 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £30.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.08 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -31.55% +105.00%
75th Percentile £63.33 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £74.72 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.42 £36.17 £46.18
% change year-on-year -38.01% -21.69% +107.55%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +21 99 £573 +1.33% 185
UK excluding London +3 51 £550 +11.56% 143
London +23 50 £610 -6.15% 93
Work from Home +35 47 £600 +8.11% 89
South East +5 17 £506 +5.03% 94
North of England -15 17 £569 +15.37% 8
North East - 12 £581 - 4
Midlands - 6 £482 - 17
South West +1 5 £648 +3.68% 6
Scotland - 5 £662 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £482 - 8
Yorkshire - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 6
North West -16 2 £538 +9.03% 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 7
Wales - 1 £600 - 3

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 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.00%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.50%) Traefik
4 2 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.50%) AWS
2 50 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 39 (32.50%) GCP
4 37 (30.83%) GitHub
5 35 (29.17%) Azure
6 22 (18.33%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 16 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (7.50%) Slack
9 7 (5.83%) IaaS
9 7 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.17%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.33%) Datadog
13 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.17%) DNS
2 7 (5.83%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) SSH
3 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.67%) Calico
4 2 (1.67%) SSL
5 1 (0.83%) 4G
5 1 (0.83%) 5G
5 1 (0.83%) STUN
5 1 (0.83%) VLAN
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.33%) Big Data
2 10 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 5 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.33%) Flink
4 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.50%) Parquet
5 3 (2.50%) Redis
5 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (30.83%) Jenkins
2 31 (25.83%) GitLab
3 23 (19.17%) Git
4 9 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.00%) JIRA
6 5 (4.17%) Gradle
7 4 (3.33%) Maven
7 4 (3.33%) Selenium
7 4 (3.33%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.50%) MLflow
8 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.67%) Poetry
9 2 (1.67%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.83%) git-flow
10 1 (0.83%) Robot Framework
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.67%) Finance
4 12 (10.00%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Front Office
7 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) iGaming
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (30.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (15.83%) Developer
3 13 (10.83%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) Senior
5 11 (9.17%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (9.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Lead
6 10 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Architect
9 7 (5.83%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Kafka Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.67%) Loki
1 14 (11.67%) Node.js
2 13 (10.83%) React
3 12 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.17%) CSS
4 11 (9.17%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (9.17%) HTML
4 11 (9.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (9.17%) Spring
5 10 (8.33%) Kafka
5 10 (8.33%) Keycloak
5 10 (8.33%) Vue
6 8 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.33%) Flask
8 3 (2.50%) .NET
8 3 (2.50%) Apache Avro
8 3 (2.50%) NumPy
8 3 (2.50%) Pandas
8 3 (2.50%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (30.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.50%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.33%) Replication
5 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.67%) Linux
2 17 (14.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) CentOS
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (89.17%) CI/CD
2 72 (60.00%) DevOps
3 60 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 56 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (33.33%) GitOps
6 37 (30.83%) Observability
7 35 (29.17%) Agile
8 31 (25.83%) Migration
9 27 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (20.00%) Microservices
11 22 (18.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
14 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
15 13 (10.83%) Incident Response
15 13 (10.83%) Secrets Management
16 12 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (10.00%) Mentoring
17 11 (9.17%) DevSecOps
17 11 (9.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 73 (60.83%) Python
2 43 (35.83%) Bash
3 33 (27.50%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.17%) Go
6 8 (6.67%) Ruby
7 6 (5.00%) Groovy
8 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.50%) SQL
10 2 (1.67%) C#
10 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 55 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 50 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.83%) Degree
3 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (45.83%) Docker
2 17 (14.17%) vSphere
3 14 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.83%) etcd
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 109 (90.83%) Kubernetes
2 73 (60.83%) Terraform
3 39 (32.50%) Grafana
4 34 (28.33%) Ansible
5 26 (21.67%) Prometheus
6 22 (18.33%) Istio
7 11 (9.17%) Kustomize
8 9 (7.50%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.50%) Podman
10 2 (1.67%) Cilium
10 2 (1.67%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.83%) linkerd
11 1 (0.83%) Nagios
11 1 (0.83%) Packer
11 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.83%) Rancher
11 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (38.33%) Red Hat
2 19 (15.83%) VMware
3 18 (15.00%) Google
4 10 (8.33%) Splunk
5 8 (6.67%) Pure Storage
6 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.50%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.67%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco
9 1 (0.83%) Confluent
9 1 (0.83%) F5
9 1 (0.83%) NetApp
9 1 (0.83%) Nokia
9 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media