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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 654 657
Rank change year-on-year +86 +3 +274
Permanent jobs citing Argo 81 57 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.95% 0.96% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 46 29 47
10th Percentile £47,617 £46,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £62,990 £52,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% -37.21% +53.57%
75th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £110,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +8.58%

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 4,159 5,920 7,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 11.05% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 3,602 6,091
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,275 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

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 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 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
England +78 68 £83,750 +21.82% 76
Work from Home +100 45 £86,000 +81.05% 35
London +78 41 £110,000 +10.00% 17
UK excluding London +37 26 £65,000 - 67
South East +21 6 £73,750 +13.46% 25
South West +5 6 - - 8
Wales +10 5 £68,958 +82.75% 2
Midlands +24 4 £46,000 -42.50% 8
North of England +10 3 £60,000 +33.33% 16
East of England +27 2 £67,500 - 6
West Midlands +21 2 - - 2
North West +19 2 £62,500 +38.89% 7
East Midlands - 2 £46,000 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 5

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 (7.41%) Apache
1 6 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 67 (82.72%) AWS
2 33 (40.74%) Azure
3 28 (34.57%) GitHub
4 24 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (28.40%) GCP
6 18 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (16.05%) Pulumi
9 11 (13.58%) SaaS
10 10 (12.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (8.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
13 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (6.17%) Serverless
14 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.94%) dbt
14 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
15 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
16 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) Broadband
2 5 (6.17%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
3 4 (4.94%) SSL
4 3 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.47%) BGP
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.47%) MQTT
5 2 (2.47%) OSPF
5 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.47%) RTMP
5 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.47%) VLAN
5 2 (2.47%) WAN
5 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.47%) Wireless
6 1 (1.23%) DNS
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 14 (17.28%) NoSQL
3 13 (16.05%) RDBMS
4 11 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (12.35%) Flink
6 6 (7.41%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.17%) MySQL
8 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.70%) Power BI
9 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.47%) Metadata
9 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.23%) Neo4j
10 1 (1.23%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 21 (25.93%) Git
2 15 (18.52%) Jaeger
3 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.64%) GitLab
4 7 (8.64%) Subversion
5 6 (7.41%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.47%) Gradle
7 2 (2.47%) Maven
7 2 (2.47%) MLflow
7 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.23%) git-flow
8 1 (1.23%) JIRA
8 1 (1.23%) JMeter
8 1 (1.23%) Locust
8 1 (1.23%) Selenium
8 1 (1.23%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (22.22%) Finance
2 17 (20.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.58%) Banking
5 10 (12.35%) Front Office
6 8 (9.88%) Law
7 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.47%) Advertising
8 2 (2.47%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Games
9 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (27.16%) Lead
3 14 (17.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Kafka Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Python Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Team Leader
10 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.99%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (19.75%) React
3 15 (18.52%) Node.js
4 14 (17.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (14.81%) Kafka
6 6 (7.41%) React Native
7 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.94%) CSS
7 4 (4.94%) HTML
7 4 (4.94%) Vue
8 2 (2.47%) .NET
8 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.47%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.47%) LangGraph
8 2 (2.47%) Next.js
8 2 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.47%) Spring
8 2 (2.47%) WebRTC
8 2 (2.47%) YAML
9 1 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (7.41%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.47%) IoT
5 2 (2.47%) MPEG
5 2 (2.47%) NHS
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
5 2 (2.47%) Robotics
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 40 (49.38%) Linux
2 14 (17.28%) Unix
3 6 (7.41%) Android
3 6 (7.41%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.70%) SUSE
4 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.70%) VMS
4 3 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (74.07%) DevOps
2 46 (56.79%) Agile
3 45 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (53.09%) CI/CD
5 30 (37.04%) Containerisation
6 28 (34.57%) GitOps
7 25 (30.86%) Mentoring
8 24 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (23.46%) Cost Optimisation
10 18 (22.22%) High Availability
11 16 (19.75%) Observability
12 15 (18.52%) Microservices
12 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (17.28%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (17.28%) Roadmaps
13 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (16.05%) Product Management
14 13 (16.05%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (67.90%) Python
2 36 (44.44%) Java
3 31 (38.27%) Bash
4 28 (34.57%) Go
5 25 (30.86%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) Ruby
8 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.47%) PHP
10 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.52%) AWS Certification
3 13 (16.05%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) Degree
5 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (59.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) NFS
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (93.83%) Kubernetes
2 57 (70.37%) Terraform
3 35 (43.21%) Prometheus
4 32 (39.51%) Ansible
5 22 (27.16%) Grafana
6 14 (17.28%) Kustomize
7 10 (12.35%) Rancher
8 7 (8.64%) Istio
8 7 (8.64%) yum
9 5 (6.17%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (6.17%) linkerd
9 5 (6.17%) Mesos
10 3 (3.70%) Puppet
11 1 (1.23%) Cilium
11 1 (1.23%) Karpenter
11 1 (1.23%) Kubeflow
11 1 (1.23%) Nagios
11 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Google
2 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.94%) PagerDuty
3 4 (4.94%) VMware
4 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco
5 2 (2.47%) MikroTik
5 2 (2.47%) NETGEAR
5 2 (2.47%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.47%) Starlink
5 2 (2.47%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.23%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.23%) Pure Storage