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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 484 520
Rank change year-on-year -110 +36 +20
Contract jobs citing Nagios 45 36 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 0.79% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 33
10th Percentile £304 £365 £414
25th Percentile £326 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £500 £588 £667
90th Percentile £680 £600 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -25.91% -1.50% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.60%

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 6,547 4,552 5,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.80% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,480 3,104 3,700
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.48%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £491 £489
% change year-on-year +0.15% +0.46% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 47 104
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.24 £20.68 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -4.35% -47.73%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.33 £50.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.22 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.67% -4.46% -7.65%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -112 41 £426 -14.80% 17
UK excluding London -78 39 £426 -25.91% 13
South West -12 21 £400 -23.81% 5
Work from Home -45 10 £415 -17.00% 10
South East -55 10 £495 -13.91% 1
North West -38 7 £340 -28.04% 3
North of England -76 7 £340 -24.23% 5
London -74 2 £575 +21.05% 5
Scotland -1 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 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (42.22%) SNMP
2 14 (31.11%) Network Security
3 13 (28.89%) Firewall
4 10 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 10 (22.22%) VPN
5 9 (20.00%) VLAN
6 7 (15.56%) DHCP
6 7 (15.56%) DNS
6 7 (15.56%) LAN
6 7 (15.56%) WAN
7 6 (13.33%) WLAN
8 5 (11.11%) BGP
8 5 (11.11%) OSPF
9 4 (8.89%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (8.89%) IPv4
9 4 (8.89%) IPv6
10 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
10 1 (2.22%) SAN
10 1 (2.22%) SSH
10 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Consultant
2 14 (31.11%) Management Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Server Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Designer
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Network Designer
5 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Network Designer
6 2 (4.44%) Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Nagios Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Splunk Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Lead
7 1 (2.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Monitoring Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (42.22%) REST
2 3 (6.67%) React
3 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Clustering
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (62.22%) Windows
2 24 (53.33%) Linux
3 19 (42.22%) AIX
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Unix
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (2.22%) Rocky
6 1 (2.22%) SUSE
6 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Dashboard Development
2 9 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (11.11%) Agile
5 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.11%) DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) Network Design
5 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
6 4 (8.89%) High Availability
6 4 (8.89%) Incident Response
6 4 (8.89%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (8.89%) Performance Testing
6 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.67%) Analytics
7 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) PowerShell
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 17 (37.78%) Search Processing Language
3 14 (31.11%) SQL
4 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (68.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (42.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (24.44%) DV Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (20.00%) CCNP
6 5 (11.11%) CCNA
6 5 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (8.89%) JNCIS
8 2 (4.44%) Degree
9 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
1 7 (15.56%) Hyper-V
2 5 (11.11%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) KVM
5 1 (2.22%) NFS
5 1 (2.22%) RHEV
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) ZABBIX
2 18 (40.00%) Netcool
3 17 (37.78%) Tivoli
4 15 (33.33%) OpenView
4 15 (33.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 10 (22.22%) Ansible
6 7 (15.56%) Terraform
7 6 (13.33%) Grafana
7 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
7 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
8 4 (8.89%) Argo
9 1 (2.22%) Kibana
9 1 (2.22%) Proxmox
9 1 (2.22%) Rancher
9 1 (2.22%) SCCM
9 1 (2.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (77.78%) SolarWinds
2 22 (48.89%) Splunk
3 19 (42.22%) BMC
4 17 (37.78%) IBM
5 15 (33.33%) HP
6 10 (22.22%) Cisco
7 9 (20.00%) Juniper
8 4 (8.89%) F5
9 3 (6.67%) VMware
10 2 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
11 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.22%) NetScout
11 1 (2.22%) New Relic
11 1 (2.22%) Red Hat