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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 463 538
Rank change year-on-year -26 +75 +105
Contract jobs citing Argo 153 60 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.32% 1.32% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 44 32
10th Percentile £401 £474 £438
25th Percentile £500 £512 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £581
90th Percentile £783 £671 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.65% - -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 6,581 4,558 5,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,501 3,103 3,765
10th Percentile £325 £313 £272
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.79%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £490 £494
% change year-on-year +0.20% -0.81% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 48 101
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £19.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.29 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -36 133 £525 -6.67% 20
UK excluding London -1 106 £513 +2.65% 15
Work from Home -6 56 £534 -6.36% 14
North of England - 51 £517 - 4
London -71 30 £688 +25.00% 8
South East -27 27 £496 -0.75% 6
Yorkshire - 25 £514 -
South West - 21 £525 - 2
North East - 18 £513 - 1
North West - 8 £633 - 3
Midlands -52 7 £505 +6.32% 2
West Midlands -54 7 £505 +6.32% 1
East of England - 5 £549 -
Scotland - 3 £553 - 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 3 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.71%) OpenShift
2 66 (43.14%) GitHub
3 59 (38.56%) AWS
4 44 (28.76%) GitHub Actions
5 40 (26.14%) Azure
6 38 (24.84%) GCP
7 31 (20.26%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (15.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.54%) Cloud Run
11 7 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.92%) Azure AKS
12 6 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.92%) Google Gemini
12 6 (3.92%) Stackdriver
13 5 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.27%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.38%) DNS
2 8 (5.23%) VPN
3 3 (1.96%) Firewall
3 3 (1.96%) SAN
4 2 (1.31%) NAS
4 2 (1.31%) VSAN
5 1 (0.65%) IPsec
5 1 (0.65%) Network Security
5 1 (0.65%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.80%) Redis
2 13 (8.50%) MongoDB
2 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.92%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.92%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.31%) Flink
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (36.60%) GitLab
2 50 (32.68%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.61%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.23%) Git
4 8 (5.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.92%) Maven
6 4 (2.61%) Gradle
6 4 (2.61%) Snyk
7 2 (1.31%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.31%) Gatling
7 2 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.31%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.65%) GoCD
8 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (15.69%) Public Sector
2 23 (15.03%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.11%) Banking
4 14 (9.15%) Finance
5 6 (3.92%) Retail
6 2 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.31%) Front Office
7 1 (0.65%) Advertising
7 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Military
7 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (34.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (23.53%) Senior
3 26 (16.99%) Developer
4 19 (12.42%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (11.76%) Architect
5 18 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 18 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 16 (10.46%) Lead
8 14 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) Java Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.23%) Backend Developer
13 8 (5.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.92%) AngularJS
1 32 (20.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (18.30%) Quarkus
3 24 (15.69%) Kafka
4 17 (11.11%) React
5 16 (10.46%) Node.js
6 14 (9.15%) Spring Boot
7 13 (8.50%) Spring
8 9 (5.88%) Express.js
8 9 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (5.23%) Loki
9 8 (5.23%) OAuth
9 8 (5.23%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.92%) Apache Avro
10 6 (3.92%) Keycloak
10 6 (3.92%) LangChain
10 6 (3.92%) OpenID
11 4 (2.61%) JPA
11 4 (2.61%) JWT
11 4 (2.61%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.58%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.31%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.31%) EMC VNX
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.31%) Replication
7 1 (0.65%) Blog
7 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.73%) Linux
2 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.31%) CoreOS
3 2 (1.31%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (1.31%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 92 (60.13%) DevOps
3 76 (49.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (46.41%) Containerisation
5 64 (41.83%) GitOps
6 53 (34.64%) Agile
7 50 (32.68%) Observability
8 45 (29.41%) DevSecOps
9 43 (28.10%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (24.18%) Front End Development
11 35 (22.88%) Software Engineering
12 32 (20.92%) Migration
13 30 (19.61%) SDLC
13 30 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (18.30%) Scrum
14 28 (18.30%) Test Automation
15 27 (17.65%) High Availability
15 27 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
16 26 (16.99%) Unit Testing
17 25 (16.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (37.25%) Python
2 49 (32.03%) Bash
3 45 (29.41%) Java
4 11 (7.19%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.88%) Go
6 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.58%) SQL
7 6 (3.92%) Bicep
8 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 45 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) OCP
3 9 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) RHCA
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.31%) Degree
8 2 (1.31%) NCDA
8 2 (1.31%) NCIE
8 2 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.99%) QA
2 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.61%) NCSC
3 4 (2.61%) PSD2
3 4 (2.61%) SEPA
4 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.31%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (27.45%) Docker
2 22 (14.38%) vSphere
3 20 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (12.42%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.31%) Ceph
6 2 (1.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.31%) NFS
6 2 (1.31%) SRDF
6 2 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.65%) iptables
Systems Management
1 140 (91.50%) Kubernetes
2 91 (59.48%) Terraform
3 66 (43.14%) Grafana
4 48 (31.37%) Ansible
5 46 (30.07%) Prometheus
6 21 (13.73%) Istio
6 21 (13.73%) vCenter Server
7 10 (6.54%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.58%) linkerd
9 5 (3.27%) Kustomize
9 5 (3.27%) Puppet
10 4 (2.61%) Cilium
10 4 (2.61%) Nagios
10 4 (2.61%) Rancher
11 3 (1.96%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.31%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.31%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.31%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.31%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 57 (37.25%) Red Hat
2 33 (21.57%) VMware
3 24 (15.69%) Splunk
4 21 (13.73%) Pure Storage
5 14 (9.15%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.96%) Oracle
7 3 (1.96%) Veeam
8 2 (1.31%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.31%) Brocade
8 2 (1.31%) Cisco
8 2 (1.31%) Confluent
8 2 (1.31%) Dell
8 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.31%) EMC
8 2 (1.31%) NetApp
8 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Tanium