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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 516 523
Rank change year-on-year -105 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Nagios 35 38 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% 0.76% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 30
10th Percentile £293 £349 £416
25th Percentile £313 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £667
90th Percentile £708 £603 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £550 £596
% change year-on-year -22.55% -7.76% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +43.75% -5.88%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 6,959 4,997 5,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.74% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,314 3,860
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £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 170 61 102
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.17% -7.69% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -13.04%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -119 32 £428 -16.49% 8
UK excluding London -108 27 £426 -22.55% 8
South West -5 21 £400 -23.81% 4
Work from Home -51 7 £553 +10.50% 4
London -87 6 £625 +31.58% 3
South East -61 3 £465 -19.13% 1
North West -44 2 £350 -26.32% 1
North of England -76 2 £350 -17.65% 1
Scotland -13 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 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) IaaS
4 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (54.29%) SNMP
2 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) VPN
4 7 (20.00%) DHCP
4 7 (20.00%) DNS
5 5 (14.29%) WAN
6 4 (11.43%) LAN
6 4 (11.43%) Network Security
6 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
6 4 (11.43%) VLAN
6 4 (11.43%) WLAN
7 3 (8.57%) BGP
7 3 (8.57%) OSPF
7 3 (8.57%) SMTP
8 1 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.86%) IPv4
8 1 (2.86%) IPv6
8 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
1 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Consultant
2 14 (40.00%) Management Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Lead
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) React
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) LDAP
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Clustering
3 3 (8.57%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (80.00%) Linux
2 25 (71.43%) Windows
3 19 (54.29%) AIX
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Rocky
6 1 (2.86%) SUSE
6 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps
2 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
3 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.29%) Agile
4 5 (14.29%) High Availability
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Software Deployment
6 3 (8.57%) AI
6 3 (8.57%) Analytics
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineering
6 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.57%) Machine Learning
6 3 (8.57%) Observability
6 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.57%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Python
2 23 (65.71%) PowerShell
3 17 (48.57%) Search Processing Language
4 14 (40.00%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Java
6 3 (8.57%) Bash
6 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) C
7 1 (2.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (37.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (11.43%) CCNP
6 3 (8.57%) CCNA
6 3 (8.57%) Degree
7 2 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.86%) JNCIS
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.57%) BitLocker
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (8.57%) Terminal Services
5 2 (5.71%) NFS
6 1 (2.86%) KVM
6 1 (2.86%) Samba
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) ZABBIX
2 18 (51.43%) Netcool
3 17 (48.57%) Tivoli
4 15 (42.86%) OpenView
4 15 (42.86%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 8 (22.86%) Ansible
7 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
8 5 (14.29%) Grafana
9 4 (11.43%) Argo
9 4 (11.43%) Puppet
9 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
10 3 (8.57%) Terraform
10 3 (8.57%) vMotion
11 1 (2.86%) Check_MK
11 1 (2.86%) OpenNMS
11 1 (2.86%) SCCM
11 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) SolarWinds
2 20 (57.14%) Splunk
3 19 (54.29%) BMC
4 18 (51.43%) HP
5 17 (48.57%) IBM
6 6 (17.14%) VMware
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco
8 4 (11.43%) Juniper
8 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
9 3 (8.57%) Citrix
9 3 (8.57%) Google
9 3 (8.57%) Symantec
10 1 (2.86%) Aruba
10 1 (2.86%) Dell
10 1 (2.86%) EMC
10 1 (2.86%) F5
10 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.86%) NetApp
10 1 (2.86%) NetScout