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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 648 780
Rank change year-on-year +115 +132 -111
Contract jobs citing Argo 46 46 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.080% 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% 0.50% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 61
10th Percentile £438 £538 £520
25th Percentile £458 £643 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £529 £775 £800
90th Percentile £625 £850 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £667 £665
% change year-on-year -25.04% +0.30% +18.22%

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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +122 35 £485 -30.71% 24
UK excluding London +59 24 £500 -25.04% 9
London +101 18 £450 -40.00% 17
Work from Home +101 15 £523 -21.66% 10
South East +29 14 £485 -28.15% 2
Wales - 6 £515 -
South West - 4 £563 -
Scotland +32 1 £640 -4.05%
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
West 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 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) Azure
2 20 (43.48%) GitHub
3 19 (41.30%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (34.78%) AWS
4 16 (34.78%) OpenShift
5 14 (30.43%) Serverless
6 12 (26.09%) Azure AKS
7 9 (19.57%) Azure Functions
7 9 (19.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.70%) Dagster
9 4 (8.70%) GCP
9 4 (8.70%) PaaS
10 3 (6.52%) Slack
11 2 (4.35%) Datadog
12 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (28.26%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (13.04%) MySQL
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Bigtable
5 1 (2.17%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.17%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Cypress.io
1 9 (19.57%) JMeter
2 8 (17.39%) Git
3 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.70%) GitLab
5 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.35%) Snyk
7 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.17%) Banking
2 1 (2.17%) Finance
2 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Site Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Migration Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) Kafka
2 10 (21.74%) Node.js
3 9 (19.57%) React
4 4 (8.70%) NumPy
4 4 (8.70%) Pandas
4 4 (8.70%) PySpark
4 4 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (4.35%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (4.35%) Loki
5 2 (4.35%) YAML
6 1 (2.17%) .NET
6 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.17%) RESTful
6 1 (2.17%) Spring
6 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) Machine to Machine
3 2 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) DevOps
2 20 (43.48%) Containerisation
2 20 (43.48%) GitOps
3 19 (41.30%) Agile
3 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 19 (41.30%) Microservices
4 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
5 14 (30.43%) Task Automation
6 13 (28.26%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) ITSM
9 10 (21.74%) Change Management
9 10 (21.74%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (21.74%) Incident Response
9 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (19.57%) SDLC
11 7 (15.22%) Architectural Design
11 7 (15.22%) Migration
11 7 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (13.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) PHP
3 4 (8.70%) Bash
3 4 (8.70%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Terraform
3 16 (34.78%) Grafana
4 15 (32.61%) Istio
4 15 (32.61%) Prometheus
5 13 (28.26%) Kibana
6 4 (8.70%) Ansible
7 2 (4.35%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.17%) linkerd
8 1 (2.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat