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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 516 569
Rank change year-on-year +56 +53 +182
Contract jobs citing Argo 131 56 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 1.08% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 30 33
10th Percentile £411 £450 £433
25th Percentile £513 £493 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £543 £598
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -9.21% -9.26%
75th Percentile £635 £700 £650
90th Percentile £713 £848 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -18.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £45.85 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £54.75 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 5,791 5,205 6,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.33% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 3,304 4,618
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 70 170
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.77 £25.19
Median hourly rate £30.93 £27.13 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -44.64% +90.59%
75th Percentile £64.31 £57.31 £74.22
90th Percentile £79.38 £74.04 £78.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.66% -42.62% +84.72%

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 25 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 25 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 +38 108 £570 +0.88% 49
UK excluding London +18 58 £540 +10.77% 45
London +25 54 £610 -6.15% 26
Work from Home +45 50 £600 +10.60% 27
South East +7 18 £500 +7.30% 25
North of England -28 18 £569 +15.37% 3
North East - 13 £581 - 1
Midlands - 10 £525 - 6
West Midlands - 8 £525 - 6
South West +1 5 £648 +7.11% 5
Scotland - 5 £662 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West -18 2 £538 +9.03% 2
East Midlands - 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 (8.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.29%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.29%) Traefik
4 2 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.91%) AWS
2 54 (41.22%) OpenShift
3 48 (36.64%) GitHub
4 39 (29.77%) GCP
5 38 (29.01%) Azure
6 32 (24.43%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (22.90%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (12.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.87%) Slack
11 8 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.34%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.34%) IaaS
12 7 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.58%) Datadog
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.82%) Pulumi
15 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.98%) DNS
2 7 (5.34%) Firewall
3 3 (2.29%) SSH
3 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.53%) Calico
4 2 (1.53%) SSL
5 1 (0.76%) 4G
5 1 (0.76%) 5G
5 1 (0.76%) STUN
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.85%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.63%) Big Data
2 10 (7.63%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.58%) Flink
4 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.05%) Redis
6 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.29%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.29%) Parquet
6 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (32.82%) Jenkins
2 38 (29.01%) GitLab
3 25 (19.08%) Git
4 10 (7.63%) JIRA
4 10 (7.63%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.82%) Gradle
6 4 (3.05%) Maven
6 4 (3.05%) Selenium
6 4 (3.05%) Terragrunt
7 3 (2.29%) MLflow
7 3 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.53%) git-flow
8 2 (1.53%) Poetry
8 2 (1.53%) PyCharm
8 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.45%) Finance
2 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.92%) Banking
4 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Front Office
7 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (29.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Developer
3 15 (11.45%) Senior
3 15 (11.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (10.69%) AWS DevOps
5 13 (9.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Architect
8 9 (6.87%) Site Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Lead
10 7 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Kafka Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) Kafka
2 14 (10.69%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (10.69%) Loki
2 14 (10.69%) Node.js
3 13 (9.92%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.92%) React
3 13 (9.92%) Spring
4 11 (8.40%) CSS
4 11 (8.40%) HTML
4 11 (8.40%) Keycloak
4 11 (8.40%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (7.63%) Vue
6 8 (6.11%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (3.82%) .NET
7 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.05%) Flask
8 4 (3.05%) Pandas
8 4 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.29%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.82%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.05%) Replication
6 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (29.77%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) CentOS
4 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (87.79%) CI/CD
2 80 (61.07%) DevOps
3 66 (50.38%) Containerisation
4 62 (47.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (33.59%) GitOps
6 42 (32.06%) Agile
7 39 (29.77%) Observability
8 33 (25.19%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (23.66%) Migration
10 28 (21.37%) Microservices
11 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (19.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
14 15 (11.45%) DevSecOps
15 14 (10.69%) Incident Response
15 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (10.69%) Mentoring
16 13 (9.92%) Secrets Management
17 12 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
18 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (64.89%) Python
2 47 (35.88%) Bash
3 39 (29.77%) Java
4 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 16 (12.21%) Go
6 14 (10.69%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.11%) Ruby
8 6 (4.58%) Groovy
9 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.29%) SQL
11 2 (1.53%) C#
11 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 59 (45.04%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.34%) Degree
5 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.53%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (44.27%) Docker
2 18 (13.74%) vSphere
3 15 (11.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.76%) etcd
5 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (92.37%) Kubernetes
2 81 (61.83%) Terraform
3 46 (35.11%) Grafana
4 41 (31.30%) Ansible
5 29 (22.14%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.56%) Istio
7 11 (8.40%) Kustomize
8 10 (7.63%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.29%) Podman
10 2 (1.53%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.53%) linkerd
10 2 (1.53%) Nagios
10 2 (1.53%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.53%) Rancher
11 1 (0.76%) Packer
11 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (37.40%) Red Hat
2 21 (16.03%) VMware
3 19 (14.50%) Google
4 14 (10.69%) Splunk
5 9 (6.87%) Pure Storage
6 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.29%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) IBM
8 2 (1.53%) Qualys
9 1 (0.76%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.76%) Confluent
9 1 (0.76%) F5
9 1 (0.76%) Intel
9 1 (0.76%) NetApp
9 1 (0.76%) Nokia
9 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.76%) Veracode