Argo Contracts

Argo
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 637 751
Rank change year-on-year +110 +114 -60
Contract jobs citing Argo 48 45 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.080% 0.099%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.51% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 40 64
10th Percentile £438 £536 £522
25th Percentile £458 £638 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £713
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £803
90th Percentile £656 £805 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £667 £665
% change year-on-year -25.04% +0.30% +26.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Argo in the UK

Argo
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Argo in the UK

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the UK

Argo
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Argo within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +95 37 £497 -29.07% 14
UK excluding London +45 24 £500 -25.04% 3
London +96 19 £600 -20.00% 12
Work from Home +100 16 £530 -21.01% 5
South East +18 14 £485 -21.14%
Wales - 6 £515 -
South West - 4 £563 -
Scotland +29 1 £640 -4.05%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
1 22 (45.83%) GitHub
2 19 (39.58%) GitHub Actions
3 16 (33.33%) AWS
3 16 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 14 (29.17%) Serverless
5 12 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (18.75%) Azure Functions
6 9 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (10.42%) GCP
9 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.33%) Dagster
9 4 (8.33%) PaaS
10 3 (6.25%) Slack
11 2 (4.17%) Datadog
11 2 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) SSH
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.08%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (12.50%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.33%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.08%) Bigtable
5 1 (2.08%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.08%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.08%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Cypress.io
1 9 (18.75%) Git
1 9 (18.75%) JMeter
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.42%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) Snyk
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Finance
3 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 12 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Migration Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) Kafka
2 10 (20.83%) Node.js
3 9 (18.75%) React
4 4 (8.33%) NumPy
4 4 (8.33%) Pandas
4 4 (8.33%) PySpark
4 4 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (4.17%) Loki
5 2 (4.17%) YAML
6 1 (2.08%) .NET
6 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
6 1 (2.08%) Spring
6 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Machine to Machine
3 2 (4.17%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) DevOps
2 21 (43.75%) GitOps
3 20 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 19 (39.58%) Agile
4 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
5 18 (37.50%) Microservices
6 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 14 (29.17%) Task Automation
8 13 (27.08%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (22.92%) ITSM
11 10 (20.83%) Change Management
11 10 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (20.83%) Incident Response
11 10 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (18.75%) SDLC
13 7 (14.58%) Architectural Design
13 7 (14.58%) Migration
13 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) PHP
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 4 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Java
4 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (43.75%) Terraform
3 17 (35.42%) Grafana
4 16 (33.33%) Istio
4 16 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 13 (27.08%) Kibana
6 6 (12.50%) Ansible
7 2 (4.17%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.08%) linkerd
8 1 (2.08%) Packer
8 1 (2.08%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent