Nagios Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Nagios
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Nagios skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Nagios 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% - 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.12% - 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £441 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.09%
75th Percentile £458 - £569
90th Percentile £459 - £588
South East median daily rate £495 - £513
% change year-on-year - - +55.30%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

Nagios 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 356 234 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.23% 14.08% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 165 259
10th Percentile £255 £335 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £521 £625 £608
90th Percentile £604 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -3.50% +1.42% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £18.44 - £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £12.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +255.88% -74.74% -28.03%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £82.80 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nagios relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Nagios job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Nagios.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Nagios

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Nagios.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Nagios

Nagios
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Berkshire - 4 £456 - 3
Nagios
South East

Nagios
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds