Nagios Contract Job Trends

Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Nagios skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 517 560
Rank change year-on-year -24 +43 +172
Contract jobs citing Nagios 27 42 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.80% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 63
10th Percentile £314 £402 £375
25th Percentile £400 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £543
90th Percentile £600 £684 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £584 £510
% change year-on-year -1.50% +14.46% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £13.10 £35.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £14.00 £38.84
Median hourly rate £57.50 £16.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +259.38% -62.35% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £27.25 £48.08
90th Percentile - £33.70 £49.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.50 £46.01
% change year-on-year - -68.49% -

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 5,215 5,226 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,422 3,543 5,142
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £685 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 61 176
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £34.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.69 £60.00 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.23 £74.00 £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nagios 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +2 21 £575 +15.00% 23
UK excluding London -15 15 £575 -1.50% 16
South East +23 8 £575 -1.50% 7
London +18 8 £400 -20.00% 8
Work from Home +22 7 £279 -51.86% 5
Scotland 0 4 £500 -16.67%
West Midlands -9 2 - -
Midlands -15 2 - - 2
East of England +5 1 £400 -54.29% 3

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) GCP
3 11 (40.74%) OpenShift
4 9 (33.33%) IaaS
4 9 (33.33%) PaaS
5 5 (18.52%) Azure
6 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) Firewall
2 15 (55.56%) DNS
3 13 (48.15%) DHCP
4 10 (37.04%) VPN
5 9 (33.33%) SMTP
6 6 (22.22%) BGP
6 6 (22.22%) OSPF
6 6 (22.22%) VLAN
7 5 (18.52%) SSL
8 4 (14.81%) EIGRP
8 4 (14.81%) HTTP
9 3 (11.11%) TACACS
10 2 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (7.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (7.41%) IPsec
10 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
10 2 (7.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (7.41%) Wireless
10 2 (7.41%) WLAN
11 1 (3.70%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (33.33%) Big Data
3 3 (11.11%) InfluxDB
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Support Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Network Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
1 2 (7.41%) LAMP
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
1 2 (7.41%) Zend Framework
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) PKI
2 9 (33.33%) Clustering
2 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) CMDB
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Life Science
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (77.78%) Linux
2 13 (48.15%) Windows
3 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (29.63%) CentOS
5 5 (18.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (18.52%) Unix
6 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (7.41%) Debian
8 1 (3.70%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) Software Deployment
3 9 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (25.93%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) High Availability
7 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
7 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (14.81%) ITIL
8 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
8 4 (14.81%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (14.81%) Scrum
9 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Bash
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (18.52%) Perl
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.11%) RHCE
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Docker
2 12 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
4 9 (33.33%) BitLocker
4 9 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 9 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (33.33%) Terminal Services
4 9 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (11.11%) KVM
6 2 (7.41%) VirtualBox
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Ansible
2 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 11 (40.74%) Puppet
4 9 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 9 (33.33%) vMotion
5 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 5 (18.52%) Terraform
6 4 (14.81%) Grafana
7 3 (11.11%) Icinga
7 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
7 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (7.41%) HAProxy
8 2 (7.41%) Salt
9 1 (3.70%) Fluentd
9 1 (3.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (3.70%) Observium
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) VMware
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 9 (33.33%) Citrix
3 9 (33.33%) Google
3 9 (33.33%) HP
3 9 (33.33%) Symantec
4 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 5 (18.52%) Cisco
5 5 (18.52%) Oracle
5 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
6 3 (11.11%) Arista
6 3 (11.11%) Commvault
7 2 (7.41%) Juniper
7 2 (7.41%) Meraki
7 2 (7.41%) New Relic
7 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.41%) Rackspace
7 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.41%) Splunk