Argo Job Trends in England

Argo
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Argo skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 626 704
Rank change year-on-year +82 +78 +176
Permanent jobs citing Argo 82 49 38
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 0.91% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 30
10th Percentile £56,250 - £68,718
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £74,935 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -33.39% +60.71%
75th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £110,000 -
UK median annual salary £81,000 £74,870 £112,500
% change year-on-year +8.19% -33.45% +60.71%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Argo falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,869 5,364 7,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.54% 11.99% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 3,301 6,514
10th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,469 £51,196 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Argo relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Argo job vacancy trend in England

Argo
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Argo.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Argo

Argo
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Argo in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Argo in England

Argo
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +58 51 £112,500 +12.50% 9
South East +13 9 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West -8 8 - - 3
Midlands +12 4 £46,000 -42.50%
North of England -6 3 £62,500 +4.28% 10
West Midlands +20 2 - -
East of England +19 2 £67,500 -
North West +8 2 £62,500 +38.89% 2
East Midlands - 2 £46,000 -
Yorkshire -29 1 £62,500 -16.52% 5
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (8.54%) Apache
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.66%) nginx
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 66 (80.49%) AWS
2 30 (36.59%) GitHub
3 27 (32.93%) Azure
4 26 (31.71%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (25.61%) GCP
6 19 (23.17%) Pulumi
7 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (12.20%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (9.76%) SaaS
11 6 (7.32%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.88%) dbt
12 4 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
14 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
14 2 (2.44%) Datadog
14 2 (2.44%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) Broadband
2 7 (8.54%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) VPN
3 5 (6.10%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (4.88%) SSL
5 3 (3.66%) HTTP
5 3 (3.66%) RTP
5 3 (3.66%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.66%) VoIP
5 3 (3.66%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.44%) BGP
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.44%) MQTT
6 2 (2.44%) OSPF
6 2 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.44%) VLAN
6 2 (2.44%) WAN
6 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.61%) Relational Database
2 20 (24.39%) NoSQL
3 19 (23.17%) RDBMS
4 10 (12.20%) Flink
5 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (9.76%) MySQL
7 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.66%) Power BI
10 2 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.44%) Metadata
11 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
11 1 (1.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 24 (29.27%) Git
2 21 (25.61%) Jaeger
3 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.54%) Subversion
4 6 (7.32%) GitLab
5 4 (4.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.44%) Gradle
6 2 (2.44%) Maven
6 2 (2.44%) MLflow
6 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.22%) JIRA
7 1 (1.22%) JMeter
7 1 (1.22%) Locust
7 1 (1.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (1.22%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.22%) Snyk
7 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (19.51%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Banking
4 10 (12.20%) Front Office
5 5 (6.10%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.10%) Law
6 3 (3.66%) Advertising
7 2 (2.44%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) DevOps Engineer
1 27 (32.93%) Lead
2 13 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (14.63%) Senior
4 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Lead DevOps
6 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (8.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Team Leader
9 6 (7.32%) Kafka Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (24.39%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (17.07%) React
4 12 (14.63%) Kafka
5 9 (10.98%) Node.js
6 5 (6.10%) WebRTC
7 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.88%) CSS
7 4 (4.88%) HTML
7 4 (4.88%) pytest
7 4 (4.88%) React Native
7 4 (4.88%) REST
7 4 (4.88%) Vue
8 3 (3.66%) Django
8 3 (3.66%) Flask
8 3 (3.66%) FreeSWITCH
8 3 (3.66%) Jinja
8 3 (3.66%) OAuth
8 3 (3.66%) RFC 2833
8 3 (3.66%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.66%) Robotics
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) IoT
5 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.44%) MPEG
5 2 (2.44%) NHS
5 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (58.54%) Linux
2 19 (23.17%) Unix
3 8 (9.76%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.10%) VMS
4 5 (6.10%) Windows
5 4 (4.88%) Android
5 4 (4.88%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.66%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) DevOps
2 46 (56.10%) Agile
2 46 (56.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (48.78%) CI/CD
4 39 (47.56%) Containerisation
5 33 (40.24%) GitOps
6 27 (32.93%) Mentoring
7 25 (30.49%) High Availability
8 24 (29.27%) Cost Optimisation
8 24 (29.27%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (24.39%) Performance Optimisation
9 20 (24.39%) Roadmaps
10 19 (23.17%) Budget Control
10 19 (23.17%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (23.17%) Product Management
10 19 (23.17%) Resource Management
10 19 (23.17%) Task Automation
11 17 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (18.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (78.05%) Python
2 42 (51.22%) Java
3 36 (43.90%) Bash
4 33 (40.24%) Go
5 28 (34.15%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.88%) Ruby
8 3 (3.66%) C
8 3 (3.66%) C++
8 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) PHP
9 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.22%) Scala
9 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.39%) AWS Certification
2 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.63%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) Degree
5 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (68.29%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.66%) Kamailio
4 2 (2.44%) NFS
5 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (98.78%) Kubernetes
2 55 (67.07%) Terraform
3 39 (47.56%) Prometheus
4 37 (45.12%) Ansible
5 20 (24.39%) Grafana
5 20 (24.39%) Kustomize
6 10 (12.20%) Rancher
7 9 (10.98%) Istio
8 6 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (7.32%) linkerd
8 6 (7.32%) Mesos
8 6 (7.32%) yum
9 2 (2.44%) Puppet
10 1 (1.22%) Cilium
10 1 (1.22%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
10 1 (1.22%) Nagios
10 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Google
2 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.88%) VMware
4 3 (3.66%) BT
4 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Mitel
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco
5 2 (2.44%) MikroTik
5 2 (2.44%) NETGEAR
5 2 (2.44%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.44%) Starlink
5 2 (2.44%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.22%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.22%) Pure Storage