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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 488 517
Rank change year-on-year -80 +29 +71
Contract jobs citing Nagios 27 32 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.67% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 49
10th Percentile £337 £401 £310
25th Percentile £375 £416 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £486 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -4.66% +2.00%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £569
90th Percentile £613 £625 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -6.50% -3.38% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £36.83
25th Percentile - £12.50 -
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile - £21.88 -
90th Percentile - £31.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -67.50% -38.46%

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 6,048 4,752 5,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 15.11% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,172 3,075 3,995
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 61 160
10th Percentile £17.64 £15.22 £14.68
25th Percentile £20.66 £21.05 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.08% -48.03% +19.95%

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 30 January 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 10 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 30 January 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 -74 23 £485 +4.86% 17
UK excluding London -59 18 £468 -6.50% 17
South East -18 8 £498 - 6
Work from Home -13 7 £400 -20.00% 3
North West -20 6 £338 -27.03% 1
North of England -62 6 £338 -27.03% 1
London -33 5 £638 +41.67% 3
South West -24 2 £575 +9.52% 3
Scotland +4 1 - - 2
East of England -18 1 £475 -20.83% 4

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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Route 53
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
2 13 (48.15%) Network Security
3 9 (33.33%) VLAN
4 8 (29.63%) VPN
5 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
6 6 (22.22%) DNS
6 6 (22.22%) WAN
7 5 (18.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (18.52%) OSPF
8 4 (14.81%) IPv4
8 4 (14.81%) IPv6
8 4 (14.81%) LAN
9 3 (11.11%) BGP
9 3 (11.11%) DHCP
9 3 (11.11%) SSL
9 3 (11.11%) WLAN
10 2 (7.41%) EIGRP
10 2 (7.41%) Ethernet
10 2 (7.41%) HTTP
10 2 (7.41%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Big Data
1 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Designer
3 3 (11.11%) Network Designer
3 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Network Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Nagios Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Clustering
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (7.41%) SCADA
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) CentOS
4 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (18.52%) Network Design
4 4 (14.81%) Agile
4 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
4 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.11%) High Availability
5 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (11.11%) Kanban
5 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
2 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) CCNP
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (22.22%) CCNA
4 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
5 4 (14.81%) JNCIS
5 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (11.11%) RHCE
7 2 (7.41%) Degree
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.70%) CISM
8 1 (3.70%) CISSP
8 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (3.70%) JNCIA
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) Docker
4 1 (3.70%) KVM
4 1 (3.70%) RHEV
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Ansible
2 9 (33.33%) Terraform
3 7 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (18.52%) Grafana
6 4 (14.81%) Argo
7 3 (11.11%) Rancher
8 1 (3.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (3.70%) Kibana
8 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
8 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) SolarWinds
2 7 (25.93%) Cisco
2 7 (25.93%) Juniper
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 4 (14.81%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) Infoblox
5 2 (7.41%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) McAfee
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.70%) New Relic
6 1 (3.70%) Ribbon
6 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
6 1 (3.70%) Veeam
6 1 (3.70%) VMware