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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 114 136
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Argo 19 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.51% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.40% 1.49% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile - £562 £587
25th Percentile £513 £617 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £649 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.11% +3.84% -10.07%
75th Percentile £567 £650 £629
90th Percentile £670 - £631
England median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -16.00%

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 352 268 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.43% 13.73% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 201 231
10th Percentile £381 £235 £330
25th Percentile £450 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% -2.18%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £625
90th Percentile £742 £695 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 8
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.00 £18.33 £14.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.92% -5.13%
75th Percentile £98.82 £71.00 £74.11
90th Percentile £100.00 £78.50 £74.44
England median hourly rate £67.24 £34.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +97.75% -12.82% -23.90%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Argo in the South West over the 6 months to 29 September 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 29 September 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 -4 11 £525 -4.55% 2
Bristol -18 3 £671 +3.27% 3
Dorset - 2 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 6
Somerset - 1 £655 - 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) OpenShift
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (21.05%) Figma
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) GCP
6 3 (15.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (15.79%) OCI
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.26%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) IPsec
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Military
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Backend Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Node.js
2 8 (42.11%) Express.js
3 7 (36.84%) Terraform
4 6 (31.58%) React
5 4 (21.05%) CSS
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
6 2 (10.53%) Kafka
6 2 (10.53%) Loki
6 2 (10.53%) ModSecurity
6 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.53%) Swagger
7 1 (5.26%) OAuth
7 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 1 (5.26%) OpenID
7 1 (5.26%) OpenTofu
7 1 (5.26%) SAML
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
7 1 (5.26%) Web Services
7 1 (5.26%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
2 14 (73.68%) Observability
3 13 (68.42%) GitOps
4 12 (63.16%) Containerisation
5 11 (57.89%) Agile
6 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (31.58%) DevOps
8 6 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (21.05%) API Design
10 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
11 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
11 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (15.79%) Runbook
11 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Bash
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Grafana
2 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Istio
4 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
4 2 (10.53%) linkerd
5 1 (5.26%) Ansible
5 1 (5.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) webMethods