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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 496 518
Rank change year-on-year -96 +22 +41
Contract jobs citing Nagios 38 29 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.099% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.61% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 46
10th Percentile £296 £413 £305
25th Percentile £314 £456 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £493 £588 £646
90th Percentile £545 £625 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £348 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -33.81% -4.55% +6.28%
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 - - -38.46%

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 6,472 4,733 5,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 16.16% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,444 3,207 3,785
10th Percentile £321 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 52 136
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £22.50 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -16.69% -44.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £69.88 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -97 33 £393 -21.50% 21
UK excluding London -82 29 £348 -33.81% 20
South West -18 12 £307 -41.57% 7
South East -39 10 £495 -15.74% 4
Work from Home -19 9 £400 -20.00% 14
North West -40 6 £338 -28.57% 3
North of England -64 6 £338 -24.79% 3
London -70 3 £638 +27.50% 2
East of England -30 1 £475 -20.83% 4

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 (7.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) Route 53
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) Network Security
2 13 (34.21%) Firewall
3 11 (28.95%) SNMP
3 11 (28.95%) VLAN
4 10 (26.32%) VPN
5 9 (23.68%) TCP/IP
6 8 (21.05%) WAN
7 7 (18.42%) OSPF
8 6 (15.79%) DNS
8 6 (15.79%) LAN
9 5 (13.16%) BGP
9 5 (13.16%) DHCP
9 5 (13.16%) WLAN
10 4 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (10.53%) IPv4
10 4 (10.53%) IPv6
11 2 (5.26%) EIGRP
11 2 (5.26%) Ethernet
11 2 (5.26%) Modbus
11 2 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Big Data
1 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Consultant
1 8 (21.05%) Management Consultant
1 8 (21.05%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Server Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Designer
4 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Network Designer
4 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Designer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Designer
5 2 (5.26%) Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Nagios Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Splunk Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Administrator
6 1 (2.63%) Design Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Clustering
2 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Linux
3 11 (28.95%) AIX
4 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Dashboard Development
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps
2 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (13.16%) Agile
3 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (13.16%) Network Design
3 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (10.53%) Performance Testing
4 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (7.89%) Kanban
5 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) Scrum
5 3 (7.89%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (7.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (47.37%) PowerShell
3 9 (23.68%) Search Processing Language
4 8 (21.05%) SQL
5 5 (13.16%) Bash
5 5 (13.16%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
2 16 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) CCNP
3 11 (28.95%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (15.79%) CCNA
5 5 (13.16%) DV Cleared
5 5 (13.16%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (10.53%) JNCIS
7 2 (5.26%) Degree
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.63%) JNCIA
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.89%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) KVM
4 1 (2.63%) RHEV
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Netcool
1 11 (28.95%) ZABBIX
2 10 (26.32%) Ansible
2 10 (26.32%) OpenView
2 10 (26.32%) Tivoli
2 10 (26.32%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 7 (18.42%) Terraform
4 6 (15.79%) Grafana
4 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.16%) Argo
5 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
6 3 (7.89%) Rancher
7 1 (2.63%) Kibana
7 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (76.32%) SolarWinds
2 14 (36.84%) Splunk
3 11 (28.95%) BMC
4 10 (26.32%) HP
4 10 (26.32%) IBM
5 9 (23.68%) Cisco
5 9 (23.68%) Juniper
6 4 (10.53%) F5
7 2 (5.26%) Infoblox
7 2 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.63%) New Relic
8 1 (2.63%) Ribbon
8 1 (2.63%) SaltStack
8 1 (2.63%) VMware