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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 531 539
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 +164
Contract jobs citing Nagios 17 33 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.089% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.63% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 75
10th Percentile £249 £158 £335
25th Percentile £388 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £572 £564
90th Percentile £625 £644 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £33.21
25th Percentile £56.25 £12.50 £35.02
Median hourly rate £57.50 £14.50 £38.04
Median % change year-on-year +296.55% -61.88% -41.48%
75th Percentile £58.75 £21.88 £40.90
90th Percentile - £31.55 £42.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year - -69.41% -34.62%

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 5,504 5,242 6,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.37% 14.18% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,616 3,409 4,956
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.63% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 56 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £29.31
Median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.84% +114.68%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £78.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +110.96%

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 25 October 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 8 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 25 October 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 -19 10 £475 +4.11% 27
Work from Home +11 8 £400 -27.93% 18
UK excluding London -36 7 £475 +2.70% 26
London +1 4 £750 +87.50% 11
Scotland -1 3 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -22 2 - -
Midlands -30 2 - -
East of England - 2 £438 - 6

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 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Route 53
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) OSPF
2 8 (47.06%) VLAN
3 7 (41.18%) DNS
4 6 (35.29%) BGP
4 6 (35.29%) EIGRP
5 5 (29.41%) SSL
6 4 (23.53%) DHCP
6 4 (23.53%) HTTP
7 3 (17.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (17.65%) TACACS
7 3 (17.65%) WAN
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (11.76%) IPsec
8 2 (11.76%) Modbus
8 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
8 2 (11.76%) VPN
8 2 (11.76%) Wireless
8 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
1 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Vagrant
4 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
1 2 (11.76%) LAMP
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Zend Framework
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) CMDB
2 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) SCADA
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (29.41%) CentOS
3 5 (29.41%) Ubuntu
4 4 (23.53%) Unix
4 4 (23.53%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) Debian
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
1 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
3 4 (23.53%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (11.76%) Product Management
5 2 (11.76%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) RHCE
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) KVM
3 2 (11.76%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 4 (23.53%) Progress Chef
5 3 (17.65%) Grafana
5 3 (17.65%) Icinga
5 3 (17.65%) Puppet
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (11.76%) Salt
7 1 (5.88%) Fluentd
7 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
7 1 (5.88%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (5.88%) Observium
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) SolarWinds
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Arista
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Commvault
5 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.76%) Infoblox
5 2 (11.76%) Juniper
5 2 (11.76%) Meraki
5 2 (11.76%) New Relic
5 2 (11.76%) Rackspace
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) Splunk
5 2 (11.76%) Zend
6 1 (5.88%) SaltStack
6 1 (5.88%) SevOne