Nagios Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Nagios
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Nagios skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 342 361
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +90
Contract jobs citing Nagios 9 22 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.97% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 43
10th Percentile £430 £453 £419
25th Percentile £475 £456 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -3.75% +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £543
90th Percentile - £769 £595
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -69.41% -
75th Percentile - £15.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - £15.90 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £14.50 £40.27
% change year-on-year +296.55% -63.99% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,463 2,258 2,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 12.99% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,499 2,006
10th Percentile £235 £250 £273
25th Percentile £380 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -3.85% -0.86%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £615
90th Percentile £644 £650 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 36 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.75 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.70 £36.27
Median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% -23.38% +122.22%
75th Percentile £63.66 £54.13 £75.25
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.83 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -33.03% +130.03%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nagios relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Nagios job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nagios.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nagios

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nagios in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nagios in the UK excluding London

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nagios.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nagios

Nagios
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. 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
South East +11 3 £575 +27.78% 7
Scotland -3 3 £500 -13.04%
West Midlands -8 2 - -
Midlands -13 2 - - 2
East of England +10 1 £400 -54.29% 2
Nagios
UK

Nagios
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) SMTP
4 3 (33.33%) SSL
4 3 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
5 2 (22.22%) HTTP
5 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (22.22%) IPsec
5 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (22.22%) TACACS
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) InfluxDB
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 3 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) Unix
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
3 2 (22.22%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 3 (33.33%) vMotion
4 2 (22.22%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (11.11%) Fluentd
5 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
5 1 (11.11%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) HP
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 3 (33.33%) Symantec
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Arista
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Commvault
3 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 2 (22.22%) Juniper
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (11.11%) Huawei
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam