Argo Contract Job Trends in the South West

Argo
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 130 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Argo 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.17% 0.032%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.47% 1.05% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £530 £587 -
25th Percentile £538 £601 £673
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £625 £695
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -10.07% +11.20%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £718
90th Percentile - £631 -
England median daily rate £573 £565 £584
% change year-on-year +1.33% -3.21% -10.19%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

Argo falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 339 380 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.92% 15.82% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 241 341
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £701 £730
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile £18.76 £12.50 £18.95
25th Percentile £42.00 £14.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £69.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -5.13% +20.00%
75th Percentile £109.25 - -
90th Percentile £119.00 £74.18 £82.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% -24.83% +96.00%

Argo
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Argo relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Argo job vacancy trend in the South West

Argo
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Argo.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Argo

Argo
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Bristol - 3 £650 -
Gloucestershire 0 1 £575 -8.00% 4
Wiltshire - 1 £550 - 2
Argo
England

Argo
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) Ruby
3 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat