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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 466 547
Rank change year-on-year +1 +81 +127
Contract jobs citing Argo 160 53 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.48% 1.13% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 36 35
10th Percentile £400 £447 £438
25th Percentile £482 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +10.68% -22.79%
75th Percentile £623 £641 £592
90th Percentile £721 £713 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £567 £511
% change year-on-year -9.61% +10.90% -23.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 6,442 4,699 5,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 16.18% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 3,183 3,800
10th Percentile £316 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 50 136
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.30 £22.77 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £70.75 £68.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.93%

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 1 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 15 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 1 April 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 -15 140 £525 -7.89% 44
UK excluding London +5 102 £513 -9.61% 32
Work from Home +1 60 £600 +5.26% 18
North of England - 46 £522 - 15
London -56 42 £675 +20.00% 15
South East -12 41 £493 -13.14% 11
Yorkshire - 20 £507 - 7
North East - 19 £600 - 5
South West -17 9 £500 - 5
West Midlands -51 8 £525 +10.53%
Midlands -64 8 £525 +10.53%
North West - 7 £633 - 3
Scotland - 3 £550 - 1
Wales -10 1 £600 +2.39%
Northern Ireland - 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 4 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.13%) OpenShift
2 75 (46.88%) AWS
3 74 (46.25%) GitHub
4 51 (31.88%) GitHub Actions
5 45 (28.13%) Azure
6 36 (22.50%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (18.13%) GCP
8 17 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (8.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.38%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.75%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.75%) Google Gemini
13 6 (3.75%) IaaS
13 6 (3.75%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.38%) DNS
2 4 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) IPsec
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.63%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) VSAN
3 1 (0.63%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.50%) Redis
3 8 (5.00%) Flink
4 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.75%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.88%) Big Data
8 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.25%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) MySQL
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 58 (36.25%) GitLab
1 58 (36.25%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.63%) SonarQube
3 8 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (4.38%) JIRA
5 3 (1.88%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.25%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.25%) Gatling
6 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.63%) git-flow
7 1 (0.63%) GoCD
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
General
1 34 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.88%) Banking
3 15 (9.38%) Finance
3 15 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.00%) Front Office
5 6 (3.75%) Retail
6 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (15.63%) Senior
3 20 (12.50%) Developer
4 19 (11.88%) Architect
5 17 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.75%) Software Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
10 12 (7.50%) Lead
10 12 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) Java Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 8 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.00%) Site Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.38%) AngularJS
1 31 (19.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (17.50%) Kafka
3 26 (16.25%) Quarkus
4 15 (9.38%) Loki
5 13 (8.13%) React
5 13 (8.13%) Spring
5 13 (8.13%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.63%) Node.js
7 8 (5.00%) Keycloak
8 7 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (4.38%) OpenID
8 7 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.75%) LangChain
10 5 (3.13%) OAuth
10 5 (3.13%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.88%) .NET
11 3 (1.88%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.88%) Swagger
12 2 (1.25%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 50 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) PKI
8 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Replication
8 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.88%) Linux
2 14 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 100 (62.50%) DevOps
3 83 (51.88%) Containerisation
4 78 (48.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (37.50%) Agile
6 53 (33.13%) GitOps
7 51 (31.88%) Observability
8 46 (28.75%) DevSecOps
9 38 (23.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (23.13%) Front End Development
11 36 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (21.25%) Migration
13 33 (20.63%) Software Engineering
14 29 (18.13%) Load Balancing
14 29 (18.13%) Test Automation
15 28 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (17.50%) Scrum
15 28 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
16 26 (16.25%) RBAC
16 26 (16.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.25%) Python
2 67 (41.88%) Bash
3 47 (29.38%) Java
4 12 (7.50%) Go
5 10 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.75%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.13%) Bicep
7 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.88%) Groovy
8 3 (1.88%) SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (43.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (38.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) OCP
3 9 (5.63%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Degree
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.88%) QA
2 6 (3.75%) NCSC
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.25%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) PSD2
3 2 (1.25%) SEPA
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (30.63%) Docker
2 37 (23.13%) vSphere
3 28 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (17.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) Ceph
5 1 (0.63%) iptables
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 150 (93.75%) Kubernetes
2 96 (60.00%) Terraform
3 74 (46.25%) Grafana
4 60 (37.50%) Ansible
5 53 (33.13%) Prometheus
6 28 (17.50%) vCenter Server
7 19 (11.88%) Istio
8 12 (7.50%) Kustomize
9 8 (5.00%) linkerd
10 6 (3.75%) Rancher
11 5 (3.13%) Nagios
11 5 (3.13%) Podman
12 4 (2.50%) Puppet
13 3 (1.88%) Karpenter
14 2 (1.25%) Opsgenie
14 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (40.63%) Red Hat
2 45 (28.13%) VMware
3 34 (21.25%) Splunk
4 27 (16.88%) Pure Storage
5 12 (7.50%) Google
6 3 (1.88%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.25%) Confluent
7 2 (1.25%) F5
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle
7 2 (1.25%) Qualys
8 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.63%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Veracode