Argo Job Trends

Argo
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Argo skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 693 651
Rank change year-on-year +96 -42 +319
Permanent jobs citing Argo 57 49 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.32% 0.75% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 39 30 46
10th Percentile £47,617 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £137,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -47.27% +96.43%
75th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £110,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +52.94% -34.62%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,320 6,523 7,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.66% 10.50% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 4,001 6,438
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,881 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,313 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% -1.70%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Argo job vacancy trend in the UK

Argo
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Argo.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Argo

Argo
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the UK over the 6 months to 12 December 2025. 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
England +109 50 £81,000 +11.72% 153
London +78 30 £110,000 +10.00% 36
Work from Home +103 28 £83,000 +27.69% 148
UK excluding London +90 20 £63,750 -1.92% 141
South East +40 5 £62,500 -3.85% 48
Wales - 5 £68,958 - 5
North of England +28 4 £62,500 +38.89% 29
Midlands - 3 £46,000 - 24
North West +38 2 £62,500 +38.89% 12
South West +28 2 - - 12
West Midlands - 2 - - 16
Yorkshire - 2 £62,500 - 15
East of England +25 1 £67,500 - 23
East Midlands - 1 £46,000 - 8

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.26%) Apache
2 3 (5.26%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (84.21%) AWS
2 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 28 (49.12%) GitHub
3 24 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (31.58%) GCP
5 17 (29.82%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (19.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (12.28%) SaaS
9 6 (10.53%) OpenShift
10 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (8.77%) Serverless
11 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (7.02%) dbt
11 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
12 3 (5.26%) Datadog
12 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
13 2 (3.51%) Dagster
13 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
1 4 (7.02%) VPN
2 3 (5.26%) SSL
3 2 (3.51%) BGP
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.51%) MQTT
3 2 (3.51%) OSPF
3 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (3.51%) RTMP
3 2 (3.51%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.51%) VLAN
3 2 (3.51%) WAN
3 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.51%) Wireless
4 1 (1.75%) Broadband
4 1 (1.75%) DNS
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Flink
2 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.77%) MySQL
5 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.26%) Power BI
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (3.51%) Metadata
6 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.75%) QGIS
7 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.26%) Jaeger
4 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.51%) Gradle
5 2 (3.51%) Maven
5 2 (3.51%) MLflow
5 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.51%) Subversion
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.75%) git-flow
6 1 (1.75%) JIRA
6 1 (1.75%) JMeter
6 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.75%) Selenium
6 1 (1.75%) Snyk
6 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (24.56%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Banking
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Front Office
3 8 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (12.28%) Law
5 3 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.51%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Games
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Lead
5 8 (14.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (12.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Kafka Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Python Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) Kafka
2 11 (19.30%) Node.js
3 10 (17.54%) React
4 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.77%) Spring
5 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.02%) CSS
5 4 (7.02%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) RESTful
5 4 (7.02%) Vue
6 3 (5.26%) Micronaut
6 3 (5.26%) Quarkus
6 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.51%) Keycloak
7 2 (3.51%) LangGraph
7 2 (3.51%) Next.js
7 2 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.51%) React Native
7 2 (3.51%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.51%) IoT
5 2 (3.51%) MPEG
5 2 (3.51%) NHS
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 2 (3.51%) Robotics
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) SUSE
3 2 (3.51%) Android
3 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.51%) Unix
3 2 (3.51%) VMS
3 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 40 (70.18%) DevOps
3 26 (45.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (42.11%) Agile
5 19 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (24.56%) Containerisation
6 14 (24.56%) Observability
7 13 (22.81%) GitOps
7 13 (22.81%) Microservices
7 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (14.04%) Investment Management
11 7 (12.28%) AI
11 7 (12.28%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (12.28%) High Availability
12 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) Java
3 13 (22.81%) Bash
4 9 (15.79%) Go
4 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.02%) Ruby
7 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) NFS
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (91.23%) Kubernetes
2 37 (64.91%) Terraform
3 21 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 19 (33.33%) Grafana
5 18 (31.58%) Ansible
6 5 (8.77%) Rancher
7 3 (5.26%) Istio
8 2 (3.51%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (3.51%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.51%) linkerd
8 2 (3.51%) Mesos
8 2 (3.51%) yum
9 1 (1.75%) Cilium
9 1 (1.75%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.75%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.75%) Nagios
9 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.02%) PagerDuty
2 4 (7.02%) VMware
3 3 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco
4 2 (3.51%) MikroTik
4 2 (3.51%) NETGEAR
4 2 (3.51%) Sonatype
4 2 (3.51%) Starlink
4 2 (3.51%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (1.75%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.75%) Pure Storage