Argo Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Argo
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 332 453
Rank change year-on-year +57 +121 +107
Contract jobs citing Argo 29 13 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.085% 0.093%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.89% 0.79% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 23
10th Percentile £473 £463 £545
25th Percentile £510 £475 £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £515 £667
Median % change year-on-year +10.68% -22.79% -6.39%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £763
90th Percentile £720 £660 £775
UK median daily rate £570 £511 £667
% change year-on-year +11.49% -23.35% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Argo falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Argo
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Argo trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Argo
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Argo over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 9 (31.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Azure
5 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) Datadog
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (31.03%) Big Data
2 9 (31.03%) Hadoop
3 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.34%) SAP HANA
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) MySQL
6 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.90%) Postman
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Git
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Maven
5 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Junior
6 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (6.90%) Metaflow
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.45%) OpenID
3 1 (3.45%) Quarkus
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
3 1 (3.45%) WF
3 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.79%) SUSE
4 2 (6.90%) Windows
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
4 11 (37.93%) Observability
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (31.03%) Microservices
5 9 (31.03%) Migration
6 8 (27.59%) Agile
7 7 (24.14%) Analytics
7 7 (24.14%) Batch Processing
7 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
8 6 (20.69%) GitOps
9 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
11 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
11 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (93.10%) Kubernetes
2 26 (89.66%) Terraform
3 18 (62.07%) Ansible
4 11 (37.93%) Grafana
5 3 (10.34%) Consul
5 3 (10.34%) logstash
6 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.45%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) Kibana
7 1 (3.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.34%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) WSO2