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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 512 543
Rank change year-on-year -113 +31 +14
Contract jobs citing Nagios 34 38 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.74% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 29
10th Percentile £291 £349 £412
25th Percentile £311 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £667
90th Percentile £711 £603 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -24.91% -8.33% +17.94%
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 7,096 5,134 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.71% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,853 3,396 3,844
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.26% -5.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 71 101
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.21% +42.50% -13.21%

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 13 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 13 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 -117 31 £426 -16.88% 29
UK excluding London -86 26 £413 -24.91% 22
South West -14 21 £400 -23.81% 14
Work from Home -62 7 £553 +10.50% 4
London -76 6 £625 +31.58% 14
North West -54 2 £350 -26.32% 4
North of England -79 2 £350 -17.65% 4
South East -80 2 £430 -25.22% 1
Scotland -14 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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) IaaS
4 3 (8.82%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) SNMP
2 8 (23.53%) Firewall
3 7 (20.59%) DHCP
3 7 (20.59%) DNS
3 7 (20.59%) VPN
4 5 (14.71%) WAN
5 4 (11.76%) LAN
5 4 (11.76%) WLAN
6 3 (8.82%) BGP
6 3 (8.82%) Network Security
6 3 (8.82%) OSPF
6 3 (8.82%) SMTP
6 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (8.82%) VLAN
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.94%) NAS
7 1 (2.94%) SAN
7 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Consultant
2 14 (41.18%) Management Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Lead
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (55.88%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) React
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) LDAP
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Clustering
1 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (82.35%) Linux
2 25 (73.53%) Windows
3 19 (55.88%) AIX
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 1 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Rocky
6 1 (2.94%) SUSE
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Dashboard Development
2 8 (23.53%) DevOps
2 8 (23.53%) Project Delivery
3 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) High Availability
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Software Deployment
6 3 (8.82%) AI
6 3 (8.82%) Analytics
6 3 (8.82%) Data Engineering
6 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.82%) ITIL
6 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
6 3 (8.82%) Observability
6 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) Python
2 23 (67.65%) PowerShell
3 17 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
4 14 (41.18%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 3 (8.82%) Bash
6 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (79.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (35.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.82%) CCNP
5 3 (8.82%) Degree
6 2 (5.88%) CCNA
6 2 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.82%) BitLocker
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (8.82%) Terminal Services
5 2 (5.88%) NFS
6 1 (2.94%) KVM
6 1 (2.94%) Samba
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (64.71%) ZABBIX
2 18 (52.94%) Netcool
3 17 (50.00%) Tivoli
4 15 (44.12%) OpenView
4 15 (44.12%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
6 8 (23.53%) Ansible
7 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
8 5 (14.71%) Grafana
9 4 (11.76%) Argo
9 4 (11.76%) Puppet
9 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
10 3 (8.82%) Terraform
10 3 (8.82%) vMotion
11 1 (2.94%) Check_MK
11 1 (2.94%) OpenNMS
11 1 (2.94%) SCCM
11 1 (2.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) SolarWinds
2 20 (58.82%) Splunk
3 19 (55.88%) BMC
4 18 (52.94%) HP
5 17 (50.00%) IBM
6 6 (17.65%) VMware
7 4 (11.76%) Cisco
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.82%) Citrix
8 3 (8.82%) Google
8 3 (8.82%) Juniper
8 3 (8.82%) Symantec
9 1 (2.94%) Aruba
9 1 (2.94%) Dell
9 1 (2.94%) EMC
9 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.94%) NetApp
9 1 (2.94%) NetScout
9 1 (2.94%) Red Hat