Argo Contracts in England

Argo
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Argo skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Argo over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 622 737
Rank change year-on-year +117 +115 -126
Contract jobs citing Argo 32 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.060% 0.055%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.73% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 26
10th Percentile £438 £524 £500
25th Percentile £451 £569 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £700 £605
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +15.70% -6.92%
75th Percentile £581 £781 £703
90th Percentile £625 £868 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £713
% change year-on-year -25.93% -5.26% +6.54%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Argo is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,372 7,479 11,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 15.52% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 5,432 8,204
10th Percentile £258 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £41.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in England

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo in England.

Daily rate trend for Argo in England

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in England

Argo
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 18 £450 -40.00% 13
South East +18 11 £489 -27.56% 4
South West +13 4 £563 -16.67%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Argo
UK

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 13 (40.63%) GitHub
2 13 (40.63%) OpenShift
2 13 (40.63%) Serverless
3 12 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 12 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (28.13%) Azure Functions
4 9 (28.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Dagster
5 4 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) PaaS
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.25%) Slack
8 1 (3.13%) Datadog
8 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.13%) Bigtable
4 1 (3.13%) CockroachDB
4 1 (3.13%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.13%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Cypress.io
1 9 (28.13%) JMeter
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.25%) Snyk
6 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Site Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) Kafka
2 10 (31.25%) Node.js
3 9 (28.13%) React
4 4 (12.50%) NumPy
4 4 (12.50%) Pandas
4 4 (12.50%) PySpark
4 4 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (6.25%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (6.25%) Loki
6 1 (3.13%) .NET
6 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) Spring
6 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Machine to Machine
3 2 (6.25%) Blockchain
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Sports Betting
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) DevOps
2 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 16 (50.00%) Microservices
4 14 (43.75%) GitOps
5 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
6 12 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (34.38%) Agile
7 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
7 11 (34.38%) Task Automation
8 9 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (25.00%) Change Management
9 8 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (25.00%) Incident Response
9 8 (25.00%) ITSM
9 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (21.88%) Architectural Design
10 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bicep
4 2 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (96.88%) Kubernetes
2 17 (53.13%) Terraform
3 13 (40.63%) Grafana
4 11 (34.38%) Istio
4 11 (34.38%) Prometheus
5 10 (31.25%) Kibana
6 3 (9.38%) Ansible
7 2 (6.25%) Kustomize
8 1 (3.13%) linkerd
8 1 (3.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.25%) VMware
2 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat