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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Argo 16 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.48% - 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.90% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.93%
75th Percentile £538 - £525
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £525 £565 £485
% change year-on-year -7.04% +16.44% -29.45%

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 410 309 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.31% 18.05% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 240 307
10th Percentile £313 £264 £205
25th Percentile £449 £425 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £589
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile £46.05 £31.15 -
25th Percentile £49.13 £56.13 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £74.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +85.88% -42.03%
75th Percentile £58.00 £79.77 £72.85
90th Percentile £82.60 £81.68 £76.28
England median hourly rate £57.63 £27.75 £25.71
% change year-on-year +107.68% +7.93% -55.29%

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 10 May 2026. 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
Wiltshire - 11 £525 - 4
Gloucestershire - 3 - - 2
Bristol - 1 £538 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (31.25%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) Figma
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) n8n
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Backend Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Express.js
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
1 5 (31.25%) Node.js
1 5 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (31.25%) React
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (50.00%) Observability
5 7 (43.75%) GitOps
6 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
8 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (12.50%) API Design
9 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Bash
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 5 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (18.75%) Nagios
4 3 (18.75%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) Ansible
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Red Hat