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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 481 539
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +79
Contract jobs citing Argo 178 72 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.49% 1.41% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 46 36
10th Percentile £402 £416 £438
25th Percentile £505 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £561 £497
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +13.04% -25.56%
75th Percentile £643 £625 £548
90th Percentile £688 £669 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £531 £497
% change year-on-year -2.31% +7.00% -25.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 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 7,151 5,090 5,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.52% 15.68% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,892 3,370 3,869
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 70 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +19.23% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.62 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.29% +47.50% -13.38%

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 11 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 11 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 -1 156 £538 +2.38% 42
UK excluding London +10 124 £519 -2.31% 21
North of England -10 66 £517 -8.18% 8
Work from Home -23 66 £600 +7.14% 22
London -47 39 £670 +22.60% 25
Yorkshire - 30 £517 - 1
North East -9 26 £511 -9.11%
South East -39 26 £513 +2.50% 5
South West - 25 £525 - 4
North West - 10 £633 - 7
Scotland -4 7 £553 -16.54% 1
Midlands -55 7 £563 +40.05% 3
West Midlands -61 7 £563 +40.05% 2
East of England - 5 £549 -

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 12 (6.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.82%) OpenShift
2 70 (39.33%) AWS
3 68 (38.20%) GitHub
4 51 (28.65%) Azure
5 44 (24.72%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (23.03%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (20.22%) GCP
8 24 (13.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (8.43%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.18%) OCI
12 8 (4.49%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.93%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.37%) Kong
15 5 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.81%) Cloud Run
16 4 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (2.25%) CloudFront
16 4 (2.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.04%) DNS
2 8 (4.49%) VPN
3 7 (3.93%) Firewall
4 3 (1.69%) SAN
5 2 (1.12%) DSL
5 2 (1.12%) NAS
5 2 (1.12%) SSL
5 2 (1.12%) VSAN
6 1 (0.56%) Calico
6 1 (0.56%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) IPsec
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) MongoDB
2 11 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.62%) Redis
4 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.25%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Power Query
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (29.21%) GitLab
2 50 (28.09%) Jenkins
3 40 (22.47%) SonarQube
4 10 (5.62%) Git
5 8 (4.49%) JIRA
6 6 (3.37%) Maven
7 4 (2.25%) Gradle
7 4 (2.25%) Snyk
8 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.12%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (18.54%) Public Sector
2 31 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.55%) Finance
4 14 (7.87%) Banking
5 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Military
6 1 (0.56%) Advertising
6 1 (0.56%) Billing
6 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (29.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (19.10%) Senior
3 28 (15.73%) Developer
4 26 (14.61%) Lead
5 22 (12.36%) Architect
6 20 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (11.24%) Java Developer
7 18 (10.11%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (10.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 16 (8.99%) Java Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.49%) Backend Developer
14 7 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.91%) AngularJS
2 36 (20.22%) Quarkus
3 26 (14.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (11.24%) Kafka
5 14 (7.87%) Loki
6 13 (7.30%) React
7 12 (6.74%) Node.js
8 9 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.49%) Express.js
10 7 (3.93%) ModSecurity
10 7 (3.93%) OAuth
10 7 (3.93%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.37%) JWT
12 5 (2.81%) Spring
13 4 (2.25%) CSS
13 4 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.25%) JPA
13 4 (2.25%) OpenID
13 4 (2.25%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 56 (31.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.93%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.25%) Blog
6 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Replication
7 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.92%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.81%) VMS
3 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
3 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (65.73%) CI/CD
2 94 (52.81%) DevOps
3 85 (47.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (43.82%) GitOps
5 67 (37.64%) Containerisation
6 66 (37.08%) Agile
7 59 (33.15%) Observability
8 57 (32.02%) DevSecOps
9 44 (24.72%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (23.03%) Front End Development
11 40 (22.47%) Software Engineering
12 38 (21.35%) Sprint Planning
13 37 (20.79%) Test Automation
14 36 (20.22%) Scrum
14 36 (20.22%) Unit Testing
15 35 (19.66%) SDLC
16 32 (17.98%) Migration
16 32 (17.98%) Secrets Management
16 32 (17.98%) Sprint Review
17 28 (15.73%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.33%) Python
2 55 (30.90%) Bash
3 49 (27.53%) Java
4 12 (6.74%) Go
4 12 (6.74%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.93%) Bicep
7 5 (2.81%) SQL
7 5 (2.81%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.12%) Cypher
8 2 (1.12%) R
8 2 (1.12%) SHACL
8 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 65 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 60 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.49%) OCP
4 8 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (3.37%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) Degree
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) RHCA
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.12%) NCDA
8 2 (1.12%) NCIE
8 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.98%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) PSD2
3 3 (1.69%) SEPA
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (26.40%) Docker
2 22 (12.36%) vSphere
3 20 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (10.67%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.12%) Ceph
6 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.12%) NFS
6 2 (1.12%) SRDF
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 155 (87.08%) Kubernetes
2 104 (58.43%) Terraform
3 77 (43.26%) Grafana
4 46 (25.84%) Prometheus
5 39 (21.91%) Ansible
6 21 (11.80%) vCenter Server
7 13 (7.30%) Istio
8 10 (5.62%) Kustomize
9 9 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.81%) Cilium
11 4 (2.25%) linkerd
11 4 (2.25%) Nagios
12 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.69%) Puppet
13 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.12%) Podman
13 2 (1.12%) Rancher
13 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 63 (35.39%) Red Hat
2 29 (16.29%) VMware
3 21 (11.80%) Pure Storage
3 21 (11.80%) Splunk
4 11 (6.18%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.18%) Oracle
5 8 (4.49%) Google
6 6 (3.37%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.69%) Veeam
8 2 (1.12%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.12%) Brocade
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (1.12%) Confluent
8 2 (1.12%) Dell
8 2 (1.12%) EMC
8 2 (1.12%) FactSet
8 2 (1.12%) IBM
8 2 (1.12%) NetApp
8 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds