Argo Contracts

Argo
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Argo skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Argo over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 523 621
Rank change year-on-year +39 +98 +152
Contract jobs citing Argo 66 51 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.32% 0.94% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 47
10th Percentile £467 £438 £530
25th Percentile £505 £461 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £497 £667
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -25.56% -3.33%
75th Percentile £630 £548 £756
90th Percentile £672 £649 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £497 £666
% change year-on-year +13.75% -25.45% +0.15%

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 4,998 5,430 8,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.53% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 3,860 6,174
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.80
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% +130.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo.

Daily rate trend for Argo in the UK

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 10 Contract 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 5 July 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 +57 45 £534 +8.32% 199
Work from Home +46 34 £565 +11.33% 114
London +57 31 £543 +0.46% 143
UK excluding London +24 10 £565 +13.75% 64
Scotland +6 4 £662 +3.44% 5
South East +21 3 £500 +3.09% 8
North of England +6 2 £563 +14.10% 29
North East - 2 £563 - 5
Midlands +9 1 £475 +5.56% 6
West Midlands +7 1 £475 +5.56% 4

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 13 (19.70%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.06%) Confluence
3 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.52%) nginx
4 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (48.48%) AWS
2 17 (25.76%) GCP
3 15 (22.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 13 (19.70%) GitHub
5 10 (15.15%) Azure
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (12.12%) OpenShift
8 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (7.58%) Slack
11 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.55%) AWS KMS
13 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (3.03%) Datadog
13 2 (3.03%) Pulumi
14 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (3.03%) BGP
2 2 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) IPv6
2 2 (3.03%) OSPF
2 2 (3.03%) SAN
2 2 (3.03%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (3.03%) TACACS
2 2 (3.03%) VSAN
3 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (19.70%) Hadoop
3 10 (15.15%) Big Data
4 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (10.61%) Data Lake
6 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.06%) SAP HANA
8 2 (3.03%) Redis
9 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.52%) MySQL
9 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (39.39%) GitLab
2 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.09%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.06%) Terragrunt
5 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.55%) Maven
6 2 (3.03%) Gradle
6 2 (3.03%) JUnit
6 2 (3.03%) Postman
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.52%) git-flow
7 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.52%) Selenium
7 1 (1.52%) Snyk
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Banking
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.61%) Finance
5 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 32 (48.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (19.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Senior
4 9 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Lead
6 5 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Developer
7 4 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (4.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (6.06%) YAML
3 3 (4.55%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.03%) Metaflow
4 2 (3.03%) Spring
4 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Camel
5 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.52%) JPA
5 1 (1.52%) Kafka
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
5 1 (1.52%) OAuth
5 1 (1.52%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.52%) OpenID
5 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) Swagger
5 1 (1.52%) WF
5 1 (1.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.88%) Linux
2 15 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.06%) SUSE
4 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (84.85%) CI/CD
2 41 (62.12%) DevOps
3 25 (37.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (33.33%) GitOps
5 21 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 21 (31.82%) Migration
6 20 (30.30%) Observability
7 17 (25.76%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (24.24%) Agile
9 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (16.67%) Microservices
11 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
12 9 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (12.12%) Analytics
13 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
13 8 (12.12%) Secrets Management
13 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (10.61%) Batch Processing
14 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
15 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) Python
2 13 (19.70%) Bash
3 7 (10.61%) Java
4 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.55%) Go
6 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) Rust
7 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.03%) Ceph
3 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 54 (81.82%) Terraform
3 27 (40.91%) Ansible
4 17 (25.76%) Grafana
5 9 (13.64%) Istio
6 4 (6.06%) Cilium
6 4 (6.06%) Consul
6 4 (6.06%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.55%) logstash
7 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.52%) linkerd
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Google
2 8 (12.12%) SAP
3 6 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.09%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) VMware
6 2 (3.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.52%) New Relic
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle
7 1 (1.52%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.52%) WSO2