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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 475 536
Rank change year-on-year -16 +61 +97
Contract jobs citing Argo 164 61 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.37% 1.25% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 36
10th Percentile £400 £459 £438
25th Percentile £504 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £497
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.78% -25.56%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £548
90th Percentile £686 £675 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £500 £497
% change year-on-year +3.80% +0.70% -25.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 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 6,913 4,874 5,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.74% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,730 3,249 3,842
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £510 £519
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -1.78% -5.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 58 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.11 £20.25 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.14 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.54% +8.11% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.86 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -8.57%

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 2 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Hourly 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 2 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 -18 143 £525 - 62
UK excluding London -2 121 £519 +3.80% 40
North of England - 65 £514 - 12
Work from Home -26 60 £559 -0.22% 35
London -74 28 £670 +23.39% 25
Yorkshire - 28 £514 - 1
South East -34 27 £513 +2.50% 12
North East - 27 £511 - 3
South West - 24 £525 - 6
North West - 10 £633 - 8
Scotland -3 6 £555 -17.78% 3
Midlands -44 6 £532 +11.89% 6
West Midlands -53 6 £532 +11.89% 4
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 5 (3.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 80 (48.78%) OpenShift
2 59 (35.98%) AWS
3 56 (34.15%) GitHub
4 41 (25.00%) Azure
5 35 (21.34%) GCP
6 32 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (18.90%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (14.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.88%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.05%) Cloud Run
12 5 (3.05%) Kong
13 4 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.44%) Apigee
13 4 (2.44%) Figma
13 4 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.63%) DNS
2 8 (4.88%) VPN
3 7 (4.27%) Firewall
4 3 (1.83%) SAN
5 2 (1.22%) DSL
5 2 (1.22%) NAS
5 2 (1.22%) SSL
5 2 (1.22%) VSAN
6 1 (0.61%) Calico
6 1 (0.61%) HTTP
6 1 (0.61%) IPsec
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.49%) Redis
4 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.44%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (31.71%) GitLab
2 49 (29.88%) Jenkins
3 41 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.49%) Git
5 8 (4.88%) JIRA
6 6 (3.66%) Maven
7 4 (2.44%) Gradle
7 4 (2.44%) Snyk
8 2 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.22%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.46%) Public Sector
2 25 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.76%) Finance
4 14 (8.54%) Banking
5 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.22%) Military
6 1 (0.61%) Advertising
6 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (29.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (20.12%) Senior
3 29 (17.68%) Developer
4 22 (13.41%) Architect
5 21 (12.80%) Java Developer
6 19 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (10.98%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (10.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 17 (10.37%) Lead
9 16 (9.76%) Java Engineer
10 13 (7.93%) Software Engineer
11 12 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (5.49%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (4.88%) Backend Developer
16 7 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.39%) AngularJS
2 37 (22.56%) Quarkus
3 25 (15.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (10.98%) Kafka
5 13 (7.93%) React
6 11 (6.71%) Node.js
7 9 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.88%) Express.js
9 7 (4.27%) OAuth
9 7 (4.27%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.27%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.66%) JWT
10 6 (3.66%) Loki
11 5 (3.05%) OpenID
11 5 (3.05%) Spring
12 4 (2.44%) Apache Avro
12 4 (2.44%) CSS
12 4 (2.44%) HTML
12 4 (2.44%) JPA
12 4 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 53 (32.32%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.27%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.44%) Blog
5 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Replication
6 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.22%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.22%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.80%) Linux
2 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.05%) VMS
4 2 (1.22%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (64.02%) CI/CD
2 89 (54.27%) DevOps
3 71 (43.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (39.63%) Agile
4 65 (39.63%) GitOps
5 63 (38.41%) Containerisation
6 49 (29.88%) DevSecOps
7 47 (28.66%) Observability
8 42 (25.61%) Front End Development
8 42 (25.61%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (24.39%) Software Engineering
10 39 (23.78%) Sprint Planning
11 38 (23.17%) Test Automation
12 37 (22.56%) Scrum
12 37 (22.56%) Unit Testing
13 35 (21.34%) SDLC
14 33 (20.12%) Sprint Review
15 31 (18.90%) Migration
16 28 (17.07%) High Availability
17 25 (15.24%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.76%) Python
2 50 (30.49%) Java
3 45 (27.44%) Bash
4 11 (6.71%) Go
4 11 (6.71%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.66%) Bicep
7 4 (2.44%) SQL
7 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.22%) Cypher
8 2 (1.22%) R
8 2 (1.22%) SHACL
8 2 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.10%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.49%) OCP
3 9 (5.49%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.83%) Degree
6 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.83%) RHCA
7 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.22%) NCDA
7 2 (1.22%) NCIE
7 2 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.12%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.83%) PSD2
3 3 (1.83%) SEPA
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) NCSC
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (21.95%) Docker
2 22 (13.41%) vSphere
3 20 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (11.59%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.22%) Ceph
6 2 (1.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.22%) NFS
6 2 (1.22%) SRDF
6 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.61%) iptables
Systems Management
1 149 (90.85%) Kubernetes
2 90 (54.88%) Terraform
3 66 (40.24%) Grafana
4 44 (26.83%) Prometheus
5 40 (24.39%) Ansible
6 21 (12.80%) vCenter Server
7 14 (8.54%) Istio
8 10 (6.10%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (5.49%) Kustomize
10 5 (3.05%) Cilium
11 4 (2.44%) linkerd
11 4 (2.44%) Nagios
12 3 (1.83%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.83%) Puppet
13 2 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.22%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.22%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.22%) Rancher
13 2 (1.22%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.22%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 65 (39.63%) Red Hat
2 29 (17.68%) VMware
3 21 (12.80%) Pure Storage
3 21 (12.80%) Splunk
4 8 (4.88%) Google
5 6 (3.66%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.05%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.05%) Oracle
7 3 (1.83%) Veeam
8 2 (1.22%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.22%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.22%) Brocade
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco
8 2 (1.22%) Confluent
8 2 (1.22%) Dell
8 2 (1.22%) EMC
8 2 (1.22%) FactSet
8 2 (1.22%) IBM
8 2 (1.22%) NetApp
8 2 (1.22%) SolarWinds