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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 526 523
Rank change year-on-year -104 -3 +46
Contract jobs citing Nagios 38 34 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.10% 0.100%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.65% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 26
10th Percentile £294 £343 £435
25th Percentile £314 £416 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £627 £588 £668
90th Percentile £704 £600 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -25.91% -2.95% +18.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £49.24 - -
25th Percentile £50.72 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% - -
75th Percentile £57.47 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £58.01 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 - -

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 7,028 5,194 5,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.22% 15.69% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,774 3,423 3,705
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 75 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.56 £23.99
Median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +9.09% +40.13% -15.01%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -111 35 £430 -18.10% 4
UK excluding London -84 29 £426 -25.91% 3
South West -21 19 £400 -20.00% 1
Work from Home -56 7 £553 +10.50% 1
London -69 7 £625 +31.58% 2
South East -73 5 £430 -25.22% 1
North West -49 4 £525 -
North of England -69 4 £525 +20.00%
Scotland -7 1 £500 - 1

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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) IaaS
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (55.26%) SNMP
2 10 (26.32%) DHCP
2 10 (26.32%) DNS
3 8 (21.05%) Firewall
4 7 (18.42%) VPN
5 6 (15.79%) BGP
5 6 (15.79%) OSPF
5 6 (15.79%) VLAN
5 6 (15.79%) WAN
5 6 (15.79%) WLAN
6 4 (10.53%) EIGRP
6 4 (10.53%) LAN
7 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (7.89%) Network Security
7 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
7 3 (7.89%) SMTP
7 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (5.26%) TACACS
8 2 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) Big Data
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
1 3 (7.89%) Toad
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Consultant
2 14 (36.84%) Management Consultant
3 6 (15.79%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) DBA
5 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared DBA
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) IT Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) NOC Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Streams
3 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) LDAP
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
4 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.53%) Clustering
3 3 (7.89%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) CMDB
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (81.58%) Linux
2 25 (65.79%) Windows
3 19 (50.00%) AIX
4 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.26%) Unix
7 1 (2.63%) CentOS
7 1 (2.63%) Rocky
7 1 (2.63%) SUSE
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Dashboard Development
2 9 (23.68%) High Availability
3 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) ITIL
5 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.53%) Software Deployment
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) AI
7 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Network Management
7 3 (7.89%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 23 (60.53%) PowerShell
3 17 (44.74%) Search Processing Language
4 16 (42.11%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) REXX
Qualifications
1 30 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (39.47%) DV Cleared
4 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (13.16%) CCNA
6 3 (7.89%) CCNP
6 3 (7.89%) Degree
7 2 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
1 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.89%) BitLocker
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (7.89%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.26%) NFS
5 1 (2.63%) KVM
5 1 (2.63%) Samba
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (57.89%) ZABBIX
2 18 (47.37%) Netcool
3 17 (44.74%) Tivoli
4 15 (39.47%) OpenView
4 15 (39.47%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 8 (21.05%) Ansible
5 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
6 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (10.53%) Puppet
6 4 (10.53%) vCenter Server
7 3 (7.89%) Data Guard
7 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 3 (7.89%) Grafana
7 3 (7.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (7.89%) Terraform
7 3 (7.89%) vMotion
8 2 (5.26%) Argo
9 1 (2.63%) SCCM
9 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (71.05%) SolarWinds
2 20 (52.63%) Splunk
3 19 (50.00%) BMC
4 18 (47.37%) HP
5 17 (44.74%) IBM
6 9 (23.68%) VMware
7 7 (18.42%) Cisco
8 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
9 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
10 3 (7.89%) Citrix
10 3 (7.89%) Google
10 3 (7.89%) Juniper
10 3 (7.89%) Meraki
10 3 (7.89%) NetScout
10 3 (7.89%) Oracle
10 3 (7.89%) SevOne
10 3 (7.89%) Symantec
11 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
12 1 (2.63%) Aruba
12 1 (2.63%) Infoblox