Argo Contracts with Work from Home Options

Argo
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Argo skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Argo over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 427 546
Rank change year-on-year +103 +119 -66
Contract jobs citing Argo 17 30 77
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 0.78% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 57
10th Percentile £475 £538 £540
25th Percentile £493 £658 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £667 £725
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% -8.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £619 £750 £800
90th Percentile £650 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £667 £725
% change year-on-year -25.04% -8.00% +8.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,671 3,829 7,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 16.04% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,832 5,257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

Argo
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Argo trend for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Argo.

Argo daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Argo over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Argo daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Argo
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (23.53%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Slack
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Datadog
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) SSH
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Snyk
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
4 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Site Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Migration Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Programmer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Programmer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (11.76%) Loki
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) GitOps
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (23.53%) ITSM
7 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) SDLC
7 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Change Management
8 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (17.65%) Migration
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
4 6 (35.29%) Grafana
5 5 (29.41%) Istio
6 4 (23.53%) Ansible
6 4 (23.53%) Kibana
7 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Checkmarx