Nagios Contract Job Trends

Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Nagios skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 493 532
Rank change year-on-year -89 +39 +33
Contract jobs citing Nagios 41 37 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 0.80% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 37
10th Percentile £300 £374 £393
25th Percentile £315 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% - -
75th Percentile £498 £588 £645
90th Percentile £543 £615 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -28.17% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,426 4,620 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 15.73% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,419 3,181 3,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.93%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 51 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.49 £20.65 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -16.03% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -14.21%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Nagios job vacancy trend in the UK

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Nagios
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -94 37 £426 -18.86% 21
UK excluding London -68 34 £413 -28.17% 17
South West -16 17 £314 -40.19% 7
South East -62 10 £495 -13.91% 8
Work from Home -28 7 £340 -32.00% 11
North West -34 6 £338 -28.57%
North of England -68 6 £338 -24.79% 2
London -87 3 £638 +34.21% 4
Scotland +9 1 £500 -

Nagios
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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (34.15%) Network Security
1 14 (34.15%) SNMP
2 12 (29.27%) Firewall
3 10 (24.39%) VPN
4 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
4 9 (21.95%) VLAN
5 7 (17.07%) LAN
5 7 (17.07%) WAN
6 6 (14.63%) DHCP
6 6 (14.63%) DNS
6 6 (14.63%) WLAN
7 5 (12.20%) BGP
7 5 (12.20%) OSPF
8 4 (9.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (9.76%) IPv4
8 4 (9.76%) IPv6
9 1 (2.44%) RTP
9 1 (2.44%) VoIP
9 1 (2.44%) VoLTE
9 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Big Data
1 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Consultant
2 10 (24.39%) Management Consultant
3 6 (14.63%) Network Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Server Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Designer
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Network Designer
5 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Designer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Network Designer
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Nagios Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Splunk Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Administrator
7 1 (2.44%) Design Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) REST
2 3 (7.32%) React
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Clustering
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (53.66%) Windows
2 18 (43.90%) Linux
3 14 (34.15%) AIX
4 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Dashboard Development
2 7 (17.07%) Agile
2 7 (17.07%) DevOps
2 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (17.07%) Project Delivery
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (12.20%) Network Design
4 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.76%) Incident Response
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (9.76%) Performance Testing
5 4 (9.76%) Service Delivery
5 4 (9.76%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (7.32%) Containerisation
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) PowerShell
3 12 (29.27%) Search Processing Language
4 10 (24.39%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) Bash
5 6 (14.63%) Java
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.44%) C
7 1 (2.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (65.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (46.34%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (21.95%) CCNP
5 7 (17.07%) DV Cleared
6 5 (12.20%) CCNA
6 5 (12.20%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (9.76%) JNCIS
8 2 (4.88%) Degree
9 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.44%) JNCIA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
1 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.32%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) KVM
3 1 (2.44%) RHEV
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) ZABBIX
2 13 (31.71%) Netcool
3 12 (29.27%) OpenView
3 12 (29.27%) Tivoli
3 12 (29.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 10 (24.39%) Ansible
5 7 (17.07%) Grafana
5 7 (17.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (14.63%) Argo
6 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
6 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (14.63%) Terraform
7 3 (7.32%) Rancher
8 1 (2.44%) Kibana
8 1 (2.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 30 (73.17%) SolarWinds
2 17 (41.46%) Splunk
3 14 (34.15%) BMC
4 13 (31.71%) IBM
5 12 (29.27%) HP
6 10 (24.39%) Cisco
7 9 (21.95%) Juniper
8 4 (9.76%) F5
9 2 (4.88%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.44%) NetScout
10 1 (2.44%) New Relic
10 1 (2.44%) Ribbon
10 1 (2.44%) VMware