Argo Contracts with Work from Home Options

Argo
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 333 441 549
Rank change year-on-year +108 +108 -93
Contract jobs citing Argo 14 27 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.095% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.67% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 54
10th Percentile £475 £549 £533
25th Percentile £488 £658 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £667 £725
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -8.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £613 £756 £800
90th Percentile £625 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £713
% change year-on-year -25.93% -5.26% +6.54%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,056 7,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 16.46% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 3,003 5,288
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 75 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.28 £15.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.25 £64.19
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Argo
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Argo trend for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo.

Argo daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Argo over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Argo daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
4 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 3 (21.43%) Slack
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Datadog
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
3 2 (14.29%) Snyk
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (14.29%) Loki
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) GitOps
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) SDLC
6 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Microservices
8 2 (14.29%) Observability
8 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 2 (14.29%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) Istio
5 2 (14.29%) Kustomize
6 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx