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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 493 532
Rank change year-on-year -90 +39 +22
Contract jobs citing Nagios 45 37 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.70% 0.80% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 36
10th Percentile £304 £374 £397
25th Percentile £330 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% - -
75th Percentile £500 £588 £645
90th Percentile £715 £615 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -25.91% - +9.52%
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 - - -19.22%

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 6,467 4,604 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.72% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,452 3,157 3,659
10th Percentile £325 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.54% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 54 124
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.61 £20.05 £17.74
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.48 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% -7.91% -50.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.44 £51.44
90th Percentile £76.95 £69.63 £70.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £34.25
% change year-on-year +127.46% -29.40% -19.41%

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 3 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 3 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 -106 41 £426 -18.86% 28
UK excluding London -79 38 £426 -25.91% 25
South West -8 20 £400 -23.81% 9
Work from Home -30 10 £415 -17.00% 10
South East -56 10 £495 -13.91% 9
North West -35 7 £340 -28.04% 1
North of England -60 7 £340 -24.23% 5
London -77 3 £638 +34.21% 5
Scotland -6 1 £500 -

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 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (42.22%) SNMP
2 14 (31.11%) Network Security
3 12 (26.67%) Firewall
4 10 (22.22%) VPN
5 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (20.00%) VLAN
6 7 (15.56%) LAN
6 7 (15.56%) WAN
7 6 (13.33%) DHCP
7 6 (13.33%) DNS
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%) RTP
10 1 (2.22%) VoIP
10 1 (2.22%) VoLTE
10 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.44%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 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%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Splunk Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Monitoring Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Network Design Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) NOC 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%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Clustering
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Windows
2 23 (51.11%) Linux
3 18 (40.00%) AIX
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Dashboard Development
2 9 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (13.33%) DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (11.11%) Network Design
5 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.89%) Incident Response
6 4 (8.89%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (8.89%) Performance Testing
6 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.89%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (6.67%) Analytics
7 3 (6.67%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.67%) High Availability
7 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Python
2 26 (57.78%) PowerShell
3 17 (37.78%) Search Processing Language
4 14 (31.11%) SQL
5 5 (11.11%) Bash
5 5 (11.11%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 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%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) KVM
3 1 (2.22%) RHEV
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) ZABBIX
2 18 (40.00%) Netcool
3 17 (37.78%) Tivoli
4 15 (33.33%) OpenView
4 15 (33.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 9 (20.00%) Ansible
6 6 (13.33%) Grafana
6 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 6 (13.33%) Terraform
7 5 (11.11%) Argo
7 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
8 2 (4.44%) Rancher
9 1 (2.22%) Kibana
9 1 (2.22%) Proxmox
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 2 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.22%) NetScout
10 1 (2.22%) New Relic
10 1 (2.22%) Ribbon
10 1 (2.22%) VMware