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 citing Argo skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	144	117	130
Rank change year-on-year	-27	+13	+23
Contract jobs citing Argo	16	4	4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West	0.44%	0.19%	0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category	4.44%	1.34%	1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted	12	4	3
10^th Percentile	-	£562	£587
25^th Percentile	£513	£617	£601
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£649	£625
Median % change year-on-year	-19.11%	+3.84%	-10.07%
75^th Percentile	£633	£650	£629
90^th Percentile	£670	-	£631
England median daily rate	£594	£566	£525
% change year-on-year	+4.81%	+7.86%	-10.06%

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 citing systems management skills in the South West.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing systems management skills	360	298	339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West	9.85%	14.44%	13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	236	225	220
10^th Percentile	£400	£270	£350
25^th Percentile	£488	£450	£458
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£558	£550	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+1.41%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£688	£649	£638
90^th Percentile	£741	£711	£700
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	22	8	7
10^th Percentile	£20.63	£18.55	£12.50
25^th Percentile	£62.43	£49.72	£14.00
Median hourly rate	£90.00	£69.00	£74.00
Median % change year-on-year	+30.43%	-6.76%	-5.13%
75^th Percentile	£97.87	£89.75	-
90^th Percentile	£99.88	£119.00	£74.18
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£34.00	£37.75
% change year-on-year	+91.18%	-9.93%	-22.00%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Argo Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the South West over the 6 months to 28 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Argo in the South West

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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Wiltshire	-2	9	£525	-4.55%
Bristol	-18	3	£671	+3.27%	1
Dorset	-	2	-	-
Gloucestershire	-	1	£600	-	2
Somerset	-	1	£655	-
Argo England

Argo Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Argo also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region citing Argo.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	16
2	Grafana	81.3%	13
2	Observability	81.3%	13
4	GitOps	75.0%	12
5	Agile	68.8%	11
5	OpenShift	68.8%	11
5	Red Hat	68.8%	11
8	Node.js	62.5%	10
8	Single Sign-On	62.5%	10
10	Containerisation	56.3%	9
11	Accessibility	50.0%	8
11	Continuous Integration	50.0%	8
11	Express.js	50.0%	8
14	Azure	43.8%	7
14	Identity Access Management	43.8%	7
14	Infrastructure as Code	43.8%	7
14	Terraform	43.8%	7
18	AWS	37.5%	6
18	Kubernetes	37.5%	6
18	Python	37.5%	6
18	React	37.5%	6
22	Bash	31.3%	5
22	Continuous Improvement	31.3%	5
22	Docker	31.3%	5
22	GitHub	31.3%	5
22	GitHub Actions	31.3%	5
22	JavaScript	31.3%	5
22	SC Cleared	31.3%	5
22	Security Cleared	31.3%	5
30	Amazon EKS	25.0%	4

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Grafana	81.3%	13
2	Single Sign-On	62.5%	10
3	Kubernetes	37.5%	6
4	Prometheus	25.0%	4
5	Ansible	12.5%	2
5	Istio	12.5%	2
5	Kustomize	12.5%	2
5	linkerd	12.5%	2