Argo Contracts with Work from Home Options

Argo
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Argo skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Argo over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 445 548
Rank change year-on-year +113 +103 -127
Contract jobs citing Argo 14 24 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.092% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.85% 0.55% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 56
10th Percentile £463 £545 £538
25th Percentile £475 £639 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £667 £695
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -4.03% +6.92%
75th Percentile £588 £763 £800
90th Percentile £660 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £511 £667 £689
% change year-on-year -23.35% -3.16% +5.96%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Argo is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,647 4,330 7,260
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 16.57% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 3,207 5,404
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £473 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +0.45% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £516 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -9.41% +1.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 75 49
10th Percentile £21.96 £23.45 £15.00
25th Percentile £39.44 £55.63 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -21.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £78.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.13 £87.98 £79.90
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -46.52% +158.08% -23.17%

Argo
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Argo trend for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo.

Argo daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Argo over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Argo daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
1 7 (50.00%) GitHub
1 7 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Datadog
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
1 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Snyk
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Migration Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Migration Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) GitOps
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Coaching
7 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Istio
5 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx