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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 447 520
Rank change year-on-year -69 +73 +62
Contract jobs citing Argo 164 105 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.70% 2.21% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 61 34
10th Percentile £435 £400 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £636
90th Percentile £688 £688 £889
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £556 £488
% change year-on-year -5.62% +14.10% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
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 6,065 4,758 4,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 14.36% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 3,075 3,016
10th Percentile £315 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £680 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £494
% change year-on-year +4.30% -2.96% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 94 57
10th Percentile £18.10 £14.65 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.94% -32.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.12 £67.18 £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.16% -43.71% -21.02%

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 10 October 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 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 10 October 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 -68 135 £594 +4.12% 250
UK excluding London -35 88 £525 -5.62% 91
Work from Home -44 64 £600 +2.13% 100
London -72 57 £625 +2.46% 158
North of England -42 44 £519 -6.70% 25
North East -25 25 £510 -8.31% 5
South East -52 24 £523 +4.60% 27
South West -15 17 £525 -19.11% 11
Yorkshire -16 15 £560 - 7
Scotland -12 11 £450 -32.02% 8
Midlands -44 4 £539 +11.66% 5
West Midlands -45 4 £539 +11.66% 2
North West -48 4 - - 13
East of England - 3 £645 - 9
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 2

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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.44%) AWS
2 64 (39.02%) Azure
3 61 (37.20%) GitHub
4 53 (32.32%) GitHub Actions
4 53 (32.32%) OpenShift
5 44 (26.83%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (25.00%) GCP
7 21 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.59%) OCI
9 18 (10.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 17 (10.37%) Amazon S3
11 13 (7.93%) Kong
12 9 (5.49%) Cloudflare
13 8 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.88%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.27%) Akamai
14 7 (4.27%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.27%) Serverless
14 7 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.32%) DNS
2 11 (6.71%) Firewall
3 6 (3.66%) VPN
4 5 (3.05%) HTTP
4 5 (3.05%) SSL
5 2 (1.22%) DSL
5 2 (1.22%) SAN
6 1 (0.61%) Calico
6 1 (0.61%) NAS
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.93%) MongoDB
2 12 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.27%) Redis
4 6 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.05%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.05%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.83%) MySQL
7 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.22%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.61%) Power Query
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (31.10%) GitLab
2 39 (23.78%) Jenkins
3 34 (20.73%) SonarQube
4 18 (10.98%) Git
5 10 (6.10%) Maven
6 9 (5.49%) JIRA
7 8 (4.88%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.66%) Snyk
9 5 (3.05%) Gradle
10 4 (2.44%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.44%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.83%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.83%) Selenium
11 3 (1.83%) TestRail
12 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.61%) JUnit
13 1 (0.61%) Mockito
13 1 (0.61%) PVCS
General
1 26 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.98%) Finance
4 12 (7.32%) Banking
5 6 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.83%) Billing
7 2 (1.22%) Front Office
7 2 (1.22%) German Language
7 2 (1.22%) Military
8 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.61%) Aviation
8 1 (0.61%) Local Government
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (23.78%) Developer
2 34 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.24%) Senior
4 24 (14.63%) Lead
5 20 (12.20%) Java Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (9.15%) Architect
9 12 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (59.15%) Terraform
2 30 (18.29%) AngularJS
3 28 (17.07%) Kafka
3 28 (17.07%) Quarkus
4 24 (14.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (12.20%) Loki
6 18 (10.98%) React
7 16 (9.76%) OAuth
8 13 (7.93%) OAuth2
9 12 (7.32%) Node.js
9 12 (7.32%) OpenID
10 11 (6.71%) Spring Boot
11 10 (6.10%) ModSecurity
12 9 (5.49%) Spring
13 8 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.88%) Express.js
13 8 (4.88%) pytest
14 7 (4.27%) JWT
14 7 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (4.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.44%) Blog
4 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.44%) PKI
5 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.83%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.83%) Replication
6 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.20%) Linux
2 5 (3.05%) VMS
2 5 (3.05%) Windows
3 3 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.22%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (69.51%) CI/CD
2 82 (50.00%) GitOps
3 80 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (44.51%) DevOps
5 70 (42.68%) Observability
6 58 (35.37%) DevSecOps
7 56 (34.15%) Agile
8 54 (32.93%) Containerisation
9 45 (27.44%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (25.61%) Software Engineering
11 36 (21.95%) Test Automation
12 34 (20.73%) Scrum
13 33 (20.12%) Front End Development
14 30 (18.29%) SDLC
15 29 (17.68%) Sprint Planning
16 28 (17.07%) Runbook
16 28 (17.07%) Sprint Review
16 28 (17.07%) Unit Testing
17 26 (15.85%) Secrets Management
18 24 (14.63%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.07%) Python
2 46 (28.05%) Java
3 43 (26.22%) Bash
4 19 (11.59%) Go
5 13 (7.93%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.71%) SQL
7 10 (6.10%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.83%) Bicep
9 3 (1.83%) C#
9 3 (1.83%) C++
9 3 (1.83%) Groovy
10 2 (1.22%) Cypher
10 2 (1.22%) R
10 2 (1.22%) SHACL
11 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 60 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.66%) Degree
5 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.22%) RHCA
8 1 (0.61%) CISM
8 1 (0.61%) CISSP
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.61%) NCDA
8 1 (0.61%) NCIE
8 1 (0.61%) OSCP
8 1 (0.61%) RHCE
8 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.90%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.05%) PSD2
3 5 (3.05%) SEPA
4 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.44%) NIST
5 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (34.15%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.22%) vSphere
5 1 (0.61%) Ceph
5 1 (0.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.61%) NFS
5 1 (0.61%) SRDF
5 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 140 (85.37%) Kubernetes
2 65 (39.63%) Grafana
3 39 (23.78%) Prometheus
4 23 (14.02%) Ansible
5 11 (6.71%) Istio
6 9 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.27%) Cilium
7 7 (4.27%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.66%) Packer
9 4 (2.44%) linkerd
9 4 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.44%) Puppet
10 2 (1.22%) Kibana
10 2 (1.22%) logstash
10 2 (1.22%) Rancher
10 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.61%) Podman
11 1 (0.61%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.61%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 42 (25.61%) Red Hat
2 21 (12.80%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.37%) Oracle
4 15 (9.15%) Google
5 11 (6.71%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.71%) Splunk
6 10 (6.10%) VMware
7 6 (3.66%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.83%) Databricks
9 2 (1.22%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) Confluent
9 2 (1.22%) EMC
9 2 (1.22%) FactSet
9 2 (1.22%) IBM
9 2 (1.22%) New Relic
9 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.22%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.22%) Veeam
10 1 (0.61%) Commvault