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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 534 656
Rank change year-on-year +69 +122 +109
Contract jobs citing Argo 58 45 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.26% 0.88% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 29 39
10th Percentile £438 £438 £538
25th Percentile £505 £458 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -25.93% -5.26%
75th Percentile £644 £530 £775
90th Percentile £695 £625 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £667
% change year-on-year - -25.04% +0.30%

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 4,617 5,116 9,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 12.01% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 3,690 6,505
10th Percentile £311 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -8.48% -0.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 112 203
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £22.58
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -53.15% +150.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.46 £71.25 £82.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% -32.35% +112.50%

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 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 8 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 18 May 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 +61 40 £563 +15.03% 79
Work from Home +52 29 £570 +9.09% 61
London +51 24 £550 +22.22% 54
UK excluding London +27 5 £500 - 40
South East +31 3 £500 +2.25% 18
Midlands +17 1 £475 +5.56% 3
West Midlands +5 1 £475 +5.56% 2
Wales -2 1 £586 +13.79% 1

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 17 (29.31%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.72%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) GitHub
3 10 (17.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.79%) Azure
5 8 (13.79%) GCP
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
6 6 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.17%) AWS KMS
10 2 (3.45%) Datadog
10 2 (3.45%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) BGP
2 2 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (3.45%) IPv6
2 2 (3.45%) OSPF
2 2 (3.45%) SAN
2 2 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (3.45%) TACACS
2 2 (3.45%) VSAN
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (29.31%) Hadoop
3 11 (18.97%) Big Data
4 9 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.90%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.72%) Looker
7 1 (1.72%) MySQL
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.72%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (37.93%) GitLab
2 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.90%) Maven
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.45%) Git
5 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.72%) Gradle
6 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.72%) Snyk
6 1 (1.72%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (12.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) SAP Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (6.90%) Spring
2 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.90%) YAML
3 3 (5.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.45%) Metaflow
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Camel
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.72%) JPA
5 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.72%) OpenID
5 1 (1.72%) Quarkus
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.72%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) Swagger
5 1 (1.72%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (46.55%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.90%) SUSE
4 2 (3.45%) Windows
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (84.48%) CI/CD
2 32 (55.17%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Observability
4 19 (32.76%) Containerisation
4 19 (32.76%) Migration
5 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (22.41%) Agile
7 12 (20.69%) Microservices
8 11 (18.97%) GitOps
9 9 (15.52%) Analytics
9 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.79%) Batch Processing
10 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
10 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.34%) Cloud Security
11 6 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.62%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) Go
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.45%) Ceph
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (91.38%) Kubernetes
2 49 (84.48%) Terraform
3 29 (50.00%) Ansible
4 24 (41.38%) Grafana
5 7 (12.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.90%) Cilium
6 4 (6.90%) Consul
6 4 (6.90%) Istio
6 4 (6.90%) logstash
7 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.72%) Kibana
8 1 (1.72%) linkerd
8 1 (1.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) SAP
2 5 (8.62%) Dynatrace
2 5 (8.62%) Google
2 5 (8.62%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.72%) WSO2