The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Nagios skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Nagios over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

Nagios
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank476551585
Rank change year-on-year
Up+75Up+34
Matching permanent IT job ads467331169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.387 %0.270 %0.177 %
As % of the Systems Management category8.116 %5.784 %4.751 %
Number of salaries quoted381280154
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,750£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-+14.28 %
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategoryAll Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
575457233557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.772 %4.667 %3.726 %
Number of salaries quoted478745422746
Average salary£44,000£42,500£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,700£30,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£60,900
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Nagios
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Nagios Demand Trend

Nagios
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK.

Nagios Salary Trend

Nagios
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Nagios over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Nagios Salary Histogram

Nagios
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+76447£42,500-
LondonUp+103305£42,500-1.16 %
South EastDown-3174£40,000-11.11 %
City of LondonUp+444£42,500-4.49 %
BrightonNew entry-26£37,500-
East SussexNew entry-26£37,500-
South WestNo change018£45,000-5.26 %
East of EnglandDown-1918£45,000+5.88 %
North WestDown-2017£40,000+31.14 %
BerkshireDown-2716£40,000-11.11 %
YorkshireDown-1214£39,250+12.14 %
OxfordshireDown-613£25,332-57.78 %
SurreyDown-2213£46,000+5.74 %
BristolUp+1012£42,500-15.00 %
CroydonNew entry-11£40,000-
WokingUp+510£43,750+12.90 %
LiverpoolNew entry-10£38,250-
MerseysideNew entry-10£38,250-
ScotlandUp+148£25,000-16.66 %
EssexDown-248£45,000-25.00 %
GlasgowUp+137£25,000-
BasildonUp+77£45,000-21.73 %
West YorkshireDown-47£40,000+45.45 %
ReadingDown-216£40,000-11.11 %
WakefieldNew entry-6£40,000-
BracknellNew entry-6£30,000-
KentNew entry-6£32,250-
HertfordshireUp+135£50,000+53.84 %
CambridgeDown-25£50,000+42.85 %
CambridgeshireDown-105£50,000+42.85 %

Nagios
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Nagios also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Nagios.

1690 (82.63 %)Linux
2380 (45.51 %)Apache
3359 (42.99 %)Red Hat
4317 (37.96 %)MySQL
5312 (37.37 %)Perl
6290 (34.73 %)Windows
7259 (31.02 %)UNIX
8258 (30.90 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9252 (30.18 %)Puppet
10246 (29.46 %)Bash shell
11239 (28.62 %)VMware
12208 (24.91 %)Cisco
13207 (24.79 %)DNS
14180 (21.56 %)Cacti
15178 (21.32 %)SAN
16175 (20.96 %)Firewall
17170 (20.36 %)PHP
18168 (20.12 %)Python
19167 (20.00 %)SQL
19167 (20.00 %)TCP/IP
20158 (18.92 %)CentOS
21153 (18.32 %)Debian
22152 (18.20 %)Tomcat
23145 (17.37 %)Oracle
23145 (17.37 %)SQL Server
23145 (17.37 %)VMware Infrastructure
24139 (16.65 %)Shell Script
25137 (16.41 %)HP
26135 (16.17 %)Degree
27134 (16.05 %)Java

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Nagios also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Nagios. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
177 (9.222 %)LAMP
251 (6.108 %)Web Services
339 (4.671 %)ASP
429 (3.473 %).NET
526 (3.114 %)HTML
624 (2.874 %)SOAP
624 (2.874 %)REST
721 (2.515 %)Memcached
820 (2.395 %)JMS
919 (2.275 %)Software Packaging
1018 (2.156 %)JMX
1018 (2.156 %)JSP
1115 (1.796 %)WebSphere
1213 (1.557 %)Application Packaging
1311 (1.317 %)J2EE
1410 (1.198 %)ASP.NET
1410 (1.198 %)X-Windows
1410 (1.198 %)Sphinx
157 (0.838 %)Java EE
157 (0.838 %)RESTful
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1380 (45.51 %)Apache
2152 (18.20 %)Tomcat
374 (8.862 %)IIS
443 (5.150 %)nginx
542 (5.030 %)MS Exchange
632 (3.832 %)Amazon AWS
731 (3.713 %)Apache Solr
822 (2.635 %)Amazon EC2
918 (2.156 %)Drupal
1016 (1.916 %)SugarCRM
1115 (1.796 %)SharePoint
1214 (1.677 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1214 (1.677 %)Jetty
1310 (1.198 %)Confluence
1310 (1.198 %)Exchange Server 2010
149 (1.078 %)Exchange Server 2003
158 (0.958 %)Exchange Server 2007
158 (0.958 %)WebLogic
167 (0.838 %)MQSeries
167 (0.838 %)OpenStack
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
162 (7.425 %)MS Excel
221 (2.515 %)MS Visio
310 (1.198 %)MS Office
49 (1.078 %)Google Apps
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
119 (2.275 %)RMDS
210 (1.198 %)Metrica
35 (0.599 %)SunGard APT
35 (0.599 %)FastVal
43 (0.359 %)SunGard AvantGard
51 (0.120 %)Oracle EBS R12
51 (0.120 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.120 %)Dynamics CRM
51 (0.120 %)Dynamics AX
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1207 (24.79 %)DNS
2178 (21.32 %)SAN
3175 (20.96 %)Firewall
4167 (20.00 %)TCP/IP
5117 (14.01 %)VPN
6107 (12.81 %)SMTP
789 (10.66 %)LDAP
882 (9.820 %)HTTP
980 (9.581 %)Internet
1073 (8.743 %)SNMP
1167 (8.024 %)VLAN
1265 (7.784 %)BGP
1357 (6.826 %)DHCP
1446 (5.509 %)OSPF
1543 (5.150 %)VoIP
1543 (5.150 %)WAN
1638 (4.551 %)Wireless
1737 (4.431 %)NAS
1737 (4.431 %)MPLS
1836 (4.311 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1317 (37.96 %)MySQL
2145 (17.37 %)SQL Server
396 (11.50 %)PostgreSQL
443 (5.150 %)NoSQL
540 (4.790 %)MongoDB
626 (3.114 %)Apache Cassandra
723 (2.754 %)SQL Server 2008
822 (2.635 %)RDBMS
918 (2.156 %)SQL Server 2005
109 (1.078 %)Oracle 11g
118 (0.958 %)SQL Server Integration Services
127 (0.838 %)Oracle 10g
127 (0.838 %)Ingres
136 (0.719 %)Redis
145 (0.599 %)CouchDB
145 (0.599 %)InterSystems Cache
154 (0.479 %)Oracle 8/8i
154 (0.479 %)Hadoop
163 (0.359 %)Informix
163 (0.359 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
193 (11.14 %)Subversion
270 (8.383 %)Git (software)
358 (6.946 %)JIRA
426 (3.114 %)Maven
525 (2.994 %)Ant
623 (2.754 %)Selenium
720 (2.395 %)Capistrano
818 (2.156 %)Hudson
818 (2.156 %)JUnit
818 (2.156 %)Mockito
818 (2.156 %)CruiseControl
818 (2.156 %)EasyMock
913 (1.557 %)TeamCity
1010 (1.198 %)Mercurial
1010 (1.198 %)Cucumber
113 (0.359 %)FishEye
113 (0.359 %)Atlassian Bamboo
113 (0.359 %)Visual Studio
122 (0.240 %)Oracle Forms
131 (0.120 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1106 (12.69 %)Finance
282 (9.820 %)Telecoms
355 (6.587 %)Banking
430 (3.593 %)Retail
520 (2.395 %)Games
613 (1.557 %)Music
711 (1.317 %)Back Office
810 (1.198 %)Investment Banking
95 (0.599 %)German Language
104 (0.479 %)Marketing
104 (0.479 %)Law
112 (0.240 %)Billing
112 (0.240 %)Front Office
121 (0.120 %)Automotive
121 (0.120 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1331 (39.64 %)Administrator
2294 (35.21 %)Systems Administrator
3218 (26.11 %)Linux Administrator
4192 (22.99 %)Linux Systems Administrator
5101 (12.10 %)Analyst
670 (8.383 %)Linux Engineer
763 (7.545 %)Support Engineer
858 (6.946 %)Systems Engineer
951 (6.108 %)Support Analyst
1045 (5.389 %)Network Engineer
1143 (5.150 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1238 (4.551 %)Operations Engineer
1337 (4.431 %)UNIX Administrator
1433 (3.952 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1532 (3.832 %)Linux Support
1631 (3.713 %)Developer
1728 (3.353 %)Graduate
1728 (3.353 %)Junior
1826 (3.114 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1924 (2.874 %)Technical Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1132 (15.81 %)Open Source
2100 (11.98 %)Clustering
377 (9.222 %)Replication
471 (8.503 %)Computer Science
561 (7.305 %)SaaS
633 (3.952 %)Cloud Computing
731 (3.713 %)e-Health
829 (3.473 %)Thin Client
829 (3.473 %)Fat Client
919 (2.275 %)Wiki
919 (2.275 %)Equities
919 (2.275 %)Fixed Income
1018 (2.156 %)Management Information System
1117 (2.036 %)Social Media
1215 (1.796 %)Blackberry
1312 (1.437 %)Enterprise Storage
1411 (1.317 %)Digital Media
159 (1.078 %)Social Network
167 (0.838 %)Online Games
167 (0.838 %)Statistics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1690 (82.63 %)Linux
2290 (34.73 %)Windows
3259 (31.02 %)UNIX
4258 (30.90 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5158 (18.92 %)CentOS
6153 (18.32 %)Debian
7110 (13.17 %)Windows Server 2003
896 (11.50 %)Ubuntu
988 (10.54 %)Windows Server 2008
1074 (8.862 %)Solaris
1136 (4.311 %)Mac OS X
1226 (3.114 %)Windows 7
1324 (2.874 %)SUSE
1421 (2.515 %)AIX
1516 (1.916 %)Fedora
1610 (1.198 %)Slackware
1610 (1.198 %)HPUX
179 (1.078 %)Windows 2000
188 (0.958 %)FreeBSD
196 (0.719 %)OpenBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1108 (12.93 %)Load Balancing
299 (11.86 %)Configuration Management
380 (9.581 %)E-Commerce
477 (9.222 %)Disaster Recovery
574 (8.862 %)ITIL
648 (5.749 %)Network Management
747 (5.629 %)Agile Software Development
839 (4.671 %)Continuous Integration
937 (4.431 %)Capacity Planning
1036 (4.311 %)Service Delivery
1135 (4.192 %)Risk Management
1234 (4.072 %)Web Development
1332 (3.832 %)Network Design
1430 (3.593 %)Change Management
1529 (3.473 %)TDD
1529 (3.473 %)Service Management
1628 (3.353 %)Wealth Management
1726 (3.114 %)Asset Management
1825 (2.994 %)Project Management
1825 (2.994 %)CRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1312 (37.37 %)Perl
2246 (29.46 %)Bash shell
3170 (20.36 %)PHP
4168 (20.12 %)Python
5167 (20.00 %)SQL
6139 (16.65 %)Shell Script
7134 (16.05 %)Java
8113 (13.53 %)Ruby
954 (6.467 %)PowerShell
1037 (4.431 %)AWK
1129 (3.473 %)JavaScript
1220 (2.395 %)C
1310 (1.198 %)C++
149 (1.078 %)T-SQL
156 (0.719 %)VBScript
165 (0.599 %)C#
174 (0.479 %)Korn
174 (0.479 %)PL/SQL
183 (0.359 %)VB
192 (0.240 %)Fortran
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1135 (16.17 %)Degree
280 (9.581 %)RHCE
374 (8.862 %)Cisco Certification
467 (8.024 %)CCNA
529 (3.473 %)Security Cleared
628 (3.353 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
724 (2.874 %)SC Cleared
822 (2.635 %)Microsoft Certification
919 (2.275 %)CCSA
1014 (1.677 %)CCNP
1112 (1.437 %)RHCT
1210 (1.198 %)MCSA
139 (1.078 %)MCSE
148 (0.958 %)ITIL Certification
157 (0.838 %)CCIE
165 (0.599 %)HND
173 (0.359 %)CCDA
173 (0.359 %)JNCIA
173 (0.359 %)NCDA
182 (0.240 %)GSEC
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
133 (3.952 %)SLA
222 (2.635 %)QA
34 (0.479 %)PCI DSS
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1145 (17.37 %)VMware Infrastructure
289 (10.66 %)NFS
380 (9.581 %)Active Directory
463 (7.545 %)Xen
562 (7.425 %)Postfix
644 (5.269 %)Samba
735 (4.192 %)Sendmail
832 (3.832 %)Squid
931 (3.713 %)vSphere
1029 (3.473 %)Varnish
1127 (3.234 %)XenServer
1221 (2.515 %)VMware ESX
1315 (1.796 %)VMware ESXi
1410 (1.198 %)VirtualBox
158 (0.958 %)FreeRADIUS
158 (0.958 %)Terminal Services
158 (0.958 %)Hyper-V
166 (0.719 %)Oracle RMAN
166 (0.719 %)Snort
174 (0.479 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1252 (30.18 %)Puppet
2180 (21.56 %)Cacti
380 (9.581 %)Munin
469 (8.263 %)Ganglia
549 (5.868 %)OpenView
639 (4.671 %)ZABBIX
736 (4.311 %)HP SIM
832 (3.832 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
931 (3.713 %)Netcool
1030 (3.593 %)Zenoss
1124 (2.874 %)Splunk
1124 (2.874 %)CFEngine
1220 (2.395 %)Tivoli
1220 (2.395 %)WSUS
1318 (2.156 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1416 (1.916 %)Red Hat Satellite
1515 (1.796 %)Nessus
1614 (1.677 %)OpenNMS
1713 (1.557 %)SCCM
1713 (1.557 %)Backup Exec
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1359 (42.99 %)Red Hat
2239 (28.62 %)VMware
3208 (24.91 %)Cisco
4145 (17.37 %)Oracle
5137 (16.41 %)HP
6102 (12.22 %)Microsoft
792 (11.02 %)JBoss
888 (10.54 %)Citrix
972 (8.623 %)Juniper
1061 (7.305 %)SolarWinds
1150 (5.988 %)CheckPoint
1245 (5.389 %)F5
1337 (4.431 %)IBM
1436 (4.311 %)NetApp
1533 (3.952 %)Sun
1631 (3.713 %)Nokia
1726 (3.114 %)Rackspace
1823 (2.754 %)Blue Coat
1922 (2.635 %)Dell
1922 (2.635 %)EMC