Icinga Contract Job Trends

Icinga, Icinga2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Icinga skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 - 619
Rank change year-on-year - - +185
Contract jobs citing Icinga 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% - 0.026%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.052% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £725 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.35%
75th Percentile £775 - £660
90th Percentile - - £669
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £653
% change year-on-year - - +24.29%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Icinga 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,787 5,198 6,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.21% 14.34% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 3,319 4,651
10th Percentile £308 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.02% -4.87%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 63 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £31.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -40.95% +104.20%
75th Percentile £63.63 £60.00 £75.31
90th Percentile £78.13 £74.35 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -19.35% -32.87% +100.78%

Icinga
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Icinga relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Icinga job vacancy trend in the UK

Icinga
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Icinga.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Icinga

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Icinga.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Icinga

Icinga
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Icinga within the UK over the 6 months to 19 November 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
England - 3 £750 - 6
Work from Home - 2 - - 3
London - 2 £750 - 5

Icinga
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) Unicast
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) Zend Framework
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
1 2 (66.67%) Server Building
1 2 (66.67%) Server Patching
1 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) VirtualBox
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Salt
3 1 (33.33%) Observium
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto