Argo Contracts in the South East

Argo
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 182 200 246
Rank change year-on-year +18 +46 -
Contract jobs citing Argo 11 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.11% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.54% 0.79% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £457 £521 -
25th Percentile £469 £553 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £675 £615
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% +9.76% -
75th Percentile £531 £688 £633
90th Percentile £625 £695 -
England median daily rate £489 £700 £605
% change year-on-year -30.14% +15.70% -6.92%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 715 760 1,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.15% 13.60% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 559 744
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.76%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £613
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.91 £48.50 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £35.63
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the South East

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Argo in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Argo in the South East

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the South East

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the South East 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
Thames Valley +3 10 £493 -26.96% 1
Berkshire -9 8 £485 -28.15% 1
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £625 +12.61%
Surrey - 1 £460 - 3
Argo
England

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (81.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Site Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (18.18%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) GitOps
1 11 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
3 9 (81.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (72.73%) Change Management
4 8 (72.73%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (72.73%) Incident Response
4 8 (72.73%) ITSM
4 8 (72.73%) Microservices
4 8 (72.73%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
5 6 (54.55%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Grafana
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (81.82%) Istio
2 9 (81.82%) Kibana
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft