Hybrid/Remote Argo Contract Job Trends

Argo
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 298 360
Rank change year-on-year +33 +62 +163
Contract jobs citing Argo 52 19 21
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.06% 1.15% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 11 13
10th Percentile £416 £513 £475
25th Percentile £513 £527 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -10.04%
75th Percentile £675 £604 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £600 £570 £568
% change year-on-year +5.26% +0.44% -12.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -

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 1,698 1,648 2,355
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.59% 14.11% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,069 1,738
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £438 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £684 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 47
10th Percentile £29.60 £13.49 £20.45
25th Percentile £34.50 £26.00 £37.44
Median hourly rate £54.50 £32.38 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.34% -48.61% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £60.63 £77.84
90th Percentile £95.60 £64.75 £83.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.53% -42.07% +37.85%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Argo and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Argo job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Argo
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Argo

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Argo over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Argo daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 27 (51.92%) AWS
1 27 (51.92%) GitHub
2 23 (44.23%) GitHub Actions
2 23 (44.23%) OpenShift
3 15 (28.85%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (26.92%) Azure
5 8 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (15.38%) GCP
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (7.69%) IaaS
9 3 (5.77%) Datadog
9 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) SSH
2 2 (3.85%) SSL
2 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) 4G
3 1 (1.92%) 5G
3 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.38%) Flink
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Parquet
5 2 (3.85%) Redis
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.92%) GitLab
3 8 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.85%) MLflow
4 2 (3.85%) Poetry
4 2 (3.85%) PyCharm
4 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.92%) git-flow
5 1 (1.92%) Gradle
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Banking
4 8 (15.38%) Front Office
5 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Lead
4 7 (13.46%) Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Kafka Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior
9 2 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Kafka
2 11 (21.15%) Keycloak
3 7 (13.46%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (11.54%) React
5 4 (7.69%) Loki
5 4 (7.69%) Spring
6 3 (5.77%) CSS
6 3 (5.77%) HTML
6 3 (5.77%) Node.js
6 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.85%) Apache Avro
7 2 (3.85%) Flask
7 2 (3.85%) NumPy
7 2 (3.85%) OpenID
7 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.85%) Pandas
7 2 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.85%) Vue
8 1 (1.92%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Fixed Income
3 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 7 (13.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (96.15%) CI/CD
2 33 (63.46%) DevOps
3 23 (44.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 17 (32.69%) Agile
5 17 (32.69%) Observability
6 16 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (26.92%) GitOps
9 13 (25.00%) Migration
10 11 (21.15%) Microservices
11 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
12 8 (15.38%) Investment Management
13 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (13.46%) Validation
14 6 (11.54%) Front End Development
14 6 (11.54%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 5 (9.62%) Incident Response
15 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
15 5 (9.62%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) Python
2 20 (38.46%) Bash
3 19 (36.54%) Java
4 7 (13.46%) Go
5 5 (9.62%) Groovy
6 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.85%) C#
8 2 (3.85%) Ruby
8 2 (3.85%) SQL
9 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (48.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) NCSC
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
2 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.54%) vSphere
3 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (82.69%) Kubernetes
2 32 (61.54%) Terraform
3 19 (36.54%) Ansible
4 17 (32.69%) Grafana
5 14 (26.92%) Prometheus
6 13 (25.00%) Istio
7 3 (5.77%) Kustomize
7 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.85%) linkerd
8 2 (3.85%) Podman
9 1 (1.92%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Red Hat
2 9 (17.31%) VMware
3 5 (9.62%) Splunk
4 4 (7.69%) Google
5 3 (5.77%) Pure Storage
6 2 (3.85%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.92%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.92%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.92%) IBM
7 1 (1.92%) Intel
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.92%) Nokia
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.92%) Qualys
7 1 (1.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.92%) Veracode