Argo Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Argo
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Argo 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.41% - 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.08% - 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £477 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £650
75th Percentile £545 - £675
90th Percentile £571 - -
England median daily rate £575 £570 £613
% change year-on-year +0.88% -6.94% -5.77%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 433 219 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.59% 12.11% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 143 185
10th Percentile £290 £215 £275
25th Percentile £420 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +14.29% -8.28%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £563
90th Percentile £650 £670 £688
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £12.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +361.82% -77.85% +210.38%
75th Percentile £66.94 £14.67 -
90th Percentile £73.13 £16.16 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Argo relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Argo job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the West Midlands

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Birmingham - 5 £464 - 2
Coventry - 2 £504 -
Solihull - 2 £569 -
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) GitHub
1 7 (77.78%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) IBM Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) NuGet
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSH
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Parquet
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
2 2 (22.22%) MLflow
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) GoCD
3 1 (11.11%) Poetry
3 1 (11.11%) PyCharm
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
3 2 (22.22%) Flask
3 2 (22.22%) NumPy
3 2 (22.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Software Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Coaching
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Go
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Ansible
4 3 (33.33%) Grafana
5 2 (22.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Cloudera
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft