Argo Contract Job Trends

Argo
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Argo skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 531 587
Rank change year-on-year +59 +56 +206
Contract jobs citing Argo 87 42 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.66% 0.81% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 34
10th Percentile £400 £450 £443
25th Percentile £508 £482 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £555 £658
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -15.59% -9.31%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £750
90th Percentile £721 £808 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +12.82% -18.75% -9.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,232 5,188 7,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 13.57% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,436 3,520 5,176
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £669
90th Percentile £683 £704 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.40% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 61 177
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £32.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.69 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.23 £74.00 £78.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Argo 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK

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 17 September 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 +53 62 £547 -1.53% 39
Work from Home +36 42 £556 -7.29% 23
London +43 38 £604 -5.29% 29
UK excluding London +6 23 £550 +12.82% 16
North of England -4 9 £550 +11.56% 4
North East - 8 £556 -
Midlands - 7 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £475 -
Scotland - 4 £662 -
South East +11 3 £500 +3.73% 7
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West +21 1 £550 -12.00% 2
North West -15 1 £500 +1.42% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.90%) Confluence
3 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.45%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.45%) Traefik
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.15%) Apache
5 1 (1.15%) Mattermost
5 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.98%) AWS
2 25 (28.74%) GCP
3 23 (26.44%) GitHub
4 17 (19.54%) OpenShift
5 16 (18.39%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (17.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.64%) Azure
9 9 (10.34%) Slack
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (4.60%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
12 3 (3.45%) SaaS
13 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.30%) Datadog
13 2 (2.30%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) DNS
2 5 (5.75%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) SSH
3 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.30%) BGP
4 2 (2.30%) Calico
4 2 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (2.30%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.30%) IPv6
4 2 (2.30%) OSPF
4 2 (2.30%) SAN
4 2 (2.30%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (2.30%) SSL
4 2 (2.30%) TACACS
4 2 (2.30%) VSAN
5 1 (1.15%) 4G
5 1 (1.15%) 5G
5 1 (1.15%) STUN
5 1 (1.15%) VLAN
5 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.49%) Big Data
2 10 (11.49%) Hadoop
3 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.60%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.45%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.45%) Parquet
6 3 (3.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.15%) Flink
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (36.78%) GitLab
2 29 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.64%) Git
4 9 (10.34%) SonarQube
5 7 (8.05%) JIRA
6 4 (4.60%) Gradle
6 4 (4.60%) Maven
6 4 (4.60%) Selenium
6 4 (4.60%) Terragrunt
7 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.45%) MLflow
8 2 (2.30%) Poetry
8 2 (2.30%) PyCharm
8 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.15%) git-flow
9 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.15%) Postman
9 1 (1.15%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.15%) Snyk
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Finance
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) iGaming
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (42.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Senior
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Lead
5 8 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (9.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Developer
10 3 (3.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) Keycloak
2 8 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (8.05%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.90%) Kafka
4 6 (6.90%) Loki
4 6 (6.90%) YAML
5 3 (3.45%) Apache Avro
5 3 (3.45%) Flask
5 3 (3.45%) NumPy
5 3 (3.45%) Pandas
6 2 (2.30%) Metaflow
6 2 (2.30%) Node.js
6 2 (2.30%) REST
7 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.15%) Django
7 1 (1.15%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (1.15%) Middleware
7 1 (1.15%) OpenID
7 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.15%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.45%) Replication
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (33.33%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.60%) SUSE
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
4 1 (1.15%) VMS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (86.21%) CI/CD
2 51 (58.62%) DevOps
3 41 (47.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (44.83%) GitOps
5 34 (39.08%) Containerisation
6 26 (29.89%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (28.74%) Migration
8 22 (25.29%) Observability
9 14 (16.09%) Agile
9 14 (16.09%) Secrets Management
10 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (14.94%) Microservices
10 13 (14.94%) Test Automation
11 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (11.49%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (11.49%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 9 (10.34%) Configuration Management
13 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
13 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.72%) Python
2 26 (29.89%) Bash
3 13 (14.94%) Java
4 11 (12.64%) Go
5 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.45%) Groovy
7 3 (3.45%) SQL
8 2 (2.30%) C#
8 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.15%) Bicep
9 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (35.63%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.30%) Ceph
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) etcd
Systems Management
1 80 (91.95%) Kubernetes
2 65 (74.71%) Terraform
3 30 (34.48%) Ansible
4 20 (22.99%) Istio
5 19 (21.84%) Grafana
6 9 (10.34%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.60%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.45%) Consul
8 3 (3.45%) logstash
9 2 (2.30%) Cilium
9 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.15%) linkerd
10 1 (1.15%) Packer
10 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Red Hat
2 13 (14.94%) Google
3 8 (9.20%) SAP
3 8 (9.20%) Splunk
4 7 (8.05%) Dynatrace
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.45%) Cisco
5 3 (3.45%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.45%) VMware
6 2 (2.30%) Dell
6 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.15%) Confluent
7 1 (1.15%) Nokia
7 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.15%) Virgin Media