Argo Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Argo
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 508 678
Rank change year-on-year +3 +170 +83
Permanent jobs citing Argo 30 14 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.057% 0.050% 0.021%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.24% 0.52% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 10
10th Percentile £41,465 £42,500 £65,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £74,870 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +6.08% +4.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,063 £76,250
90th Percentile £74,679 £86,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% -6.41% +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,410 2,696 5,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.54% 9.63% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 1,754 4,371
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -4.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,131
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,769 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Argo
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Argo.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Argo

Argo
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Argo in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Argo in the UK excluding London

Argo
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
South East -2 9 £62,500 -20.63% 7
South West -24 8 - - 1
Wales -4 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Midlands -16 4 £46,000 -42.50% 1
North of England -47 3 £62,500 -16.52% 17
West Midlands +7 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -41 2 £63,750 -14.85% 11
East Midlands - 2 £46,000 -
East of England - 2 £67,500 -
North West -11 1 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
1 3 (10.00%) RTP
1 3 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (10.00%) VoIP
1 3 (10.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (6.67%) Broadband
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) Snyk
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) DBA
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) NHS DBA
4 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (13.33%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) Django
2 3 (10.00%) Flask
2 3 (10.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (10.00%) Jinja
2 3 (10.00%) OAuth
2 3 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.00%) pytest
2 3 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) RFC 2833
2 3 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (10.00%) WebRTC
3 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) GeoPandas
4 1 (3.33%) MapLibre
4 1 (3.33%) NetworkX
4 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) NHS
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) DevOps
2 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (46.67%) Agile
5 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (26.67%) Kanban
7 8 (26.67%) Scrum
8 7 (23.33%) SDLC
9 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (16.67%) GitOps
9 5 (16.67%) High Availability
9 5 (16.67%) Validation
10 4 (13.33%) AI
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Observability
10 4 (13.33%) OOP
10 4 (13.33%) Sentiment Analysis
11 3 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) Bash
3 8 (26.67%) Go
3 8 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) C
4 3 (10.00%) C++
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) PHP
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Kamailio
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (20.00%) Ansible
3 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (20.00%) Rancher
3 6 (20.00%) yum
4 5 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (10.00%) Istio
5 3 (10.00%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.33%) Graylog
6 1 (3.33%) linkerd
6 1 (3.33%) Mesos
6 1 (3.33%) Nagios
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
6 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) PagerDuty
2 3 (10.00%) BT
2 3 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Mitel
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Mapbox
4 1 (3.33%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) VMware