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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 473 516
Rank change year-on-year -26 +43 +98
Contract jobs citing Argo 183 81 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.10% 1.78% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 49 31
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £501 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £543 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +2.45% -20.42%
75th Percentile £654 £615 £635
90th Percentile £688 £678 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -1.76% +6.49% -21.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
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 5,906 4,542 4,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.99% 13.88% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,930 2,948 3,184
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £618
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 80 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.88 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +111.03% -17.05% -37.10%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.38 £78.83 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.79% +42.86% -16.63%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -11 153 £549 +4.63% 128
UK excluding London -7 117 £516 -1.76% 50
Work from Home -29 70 £600 +14.29% 61
North of England -13 61 £510 -7.27% 20
London -77 48 £631 +12.92% 90
North East -17 31 £511 -8.09% 3
South East -36 25 £513 +2.50% 8
South West -8 23 £525 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire - 22 £461 - 4
Scotland -2 13 £513 -22.58% 4
North West -38 8 £375 -25.00% 13
Midlands -49 5 £563 +28.39% 1
West Midlands -53 5 £563 +28.39% 1
East of England - 5 £549 - 5

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 16 (8.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.36%) AWS
2 67 (36.61%) GitHub
3 65 (35.52%) OpenShift
4 61 (33.33%) Azure
5 53 (28.96%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (25.68%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (20.77%) GCP
8 24 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (12.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 18 (9.84%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.20%) OCI
12 13 (7.10%) Kong
13 9 (4.92%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (4.37%) Cloudflare
14 8 (4.37%) Serverless
15 7 (3.83%) Akamai
15 7 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.83%) Azure AKS
16 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) DNS
2 10 (5.46%) Firewall
3 8 (4.37%) VPN
4 5 (2.73%) HTTP
5 3 (1.64%) SAN
5 3 (1.64%) SSL
6 2 (1.09%) DSL
6 2 (1.09%) NAS
6 2 (1.09%) VSAN
7 1 (0.55%) Calico
7 1 (0.55%) IPsec
7 1 (0.55%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.29%) MongoDB
1 17 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.46%) Redis
3 8 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.73%) Hazelcast
5 5 (2.73%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.09%) MySQL
7 2 (1.09%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.55%) Power Query
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.55%) Tableau
8 1 (0.55%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 53 (28.96%) GitLab
2 43 (23.50%) SonarQube
3 41 (22.40%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.20%) Git
5 10 (5.46%) JIRA
6 9 (4.92%) Maven
7 8 (4.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.73%) Gradle
8 5 (2.73%) Snyk
9 3 (1.64%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.09%) Selenium
10 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.09%) TestRail
11 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (15.85%) Public Sector
2 28 (15.30%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.84%) Finance
4 14 (7.65%) Banking
5 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.09%) Billing
6 2 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.55%) Front Office
7 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (25.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (21.86%) Developer
3 29 (15.85%) Senior
4 26 (14.21%) Lead
5 23 (12.57%) Java Developer
6 20 (10.93%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (10.38%) Architect
8 18 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.74%) Java Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (7.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.10%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (7.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 11 (6.01%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Backend Developer
14 8 (4.37%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (56.83%) Terraform
2 40 (21.86%) AngularJS
3 38 (20.77%) Quarkus
4 31 (16.94%) Kafka
5 28 (15.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (10.38%) React
7 17 (9.29%) Loki
8 14 (7.65%) OAuth
9 13 (7.10%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.01%) Node.js
11 10 (5.46%) OpenID
11 10 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.92%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.37%) Express.js
13 8 (4.37%) ModSecurity
14 7 (3.83%) JWT
14 7 (3.83%) pytest
14 7 (3.83%) SAML
14 7 (3.83%) Spring
14 7 (3.83%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.28%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.19%) Blog
5 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.19%) Replication
6 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) PKI
6 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.09%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.02%) Linux
2 5 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.73%) VMS
3 3 (1.64%) Windows
4 2 (1.09%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 86 (46.99%) GitOps
3 85 (46.45%) DevOps
4 84 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (38.80%) Agile
6 68 (37.16%) Observability
7 66 (36.07%) DevSecOps
8 55 (30.05%) Containerisation
9 51 (27.87%) Platform Engineering
10 48 (26.23%) Software Engineering
11 43 (23.50%) Scrum
12 42 (22.95%) Front End Development
12 42 (22.95%) Test Automation
13 38 (20.77%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (20.77%) Unit Testing
14 37 (20.22%) SDLC
15 34 (18.58%) Sprint Review
16 30 (16.39%) Secrets Management
17 27 (14.75%) Runbook
18 24 (13.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.70%) Python
2 53 (28.96%) Java
3 46 (25.14%) Bash
4 18 (9.84%) Go
5 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.01%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.46%) SQL
8 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.19%) Bicep
10 2 (1.09%) Cypher
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) R
10 2 (1.09%) SHACL
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) C++
11 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 70 (38.25%) Security Cleared
2 66 (36.07%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.83%) Degree
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.73%) OCP
5 5 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.09%) NCDA
8 2 (1.09%) NCIE
8 2 (1.09%) RHCA
8 2 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.55%) CISM
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.67%) QA
2 8 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.73%) PSD2
3 5 (2.73%) SEPA
4 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (27.32%) Docker
2 14 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.92%) vSphere
4 7 (3.83%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.09%) Ceph
6 2 (1.09%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.09%) NFS
6 2 (1.09%) SRDF
6 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.55%) iptables
Systems Management
1 161 (87.98%) Kubernetes
2 70 (38.25%) Grafana
3 43 (23.50%) Prometheus
4 30 (16.39%) Ansible
5 13 (7.10%) Istio
6 9 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.92%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.83%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.28%) Cilium
9 3 (1.64%) linkerd
9 3 (1.64%) Packer
9 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.64%) Puppet
10 2 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.09%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.09%) Nagios
10 2 (1.09%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (1.09%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.09%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 57 (31.15%) Red Hat
2 19 (10.38%) VMware
3 18 (9.84%) Splunk
4 15 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.20%) Oracle
5 11 (6.01%) Dynatrace
6 10 (5.46%) Google
7 9 (4.92%) Pure Storage
8 6 (3.28%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.64%) Cisco
9 3 (1.64%) Databricks
9 3 (1.64%) EMC
9 3 (1.64%) Veeam
10 2 (1.09%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.09%) Brocade
10 2 (1.09%) Confluent
10 2 (1.09%) Dell
10 2 (1.09%) NetApp
10 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds