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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 517 509
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 +133
Contract jobs citing Nagios 27 26 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.077% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.52% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 64
10th Percentile £337 £239 £313
25th Percentile £375 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £588
90th Percentile £613 £640 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £586 £521
% change year-on-year -20.22% +12.42% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £32.60
25th Percentile - £12.50 £33.51
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year - -59.74% -44.58%
75th Percentile - £21.88 £37.53
90th Percentile - £31.55 £37.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.00 -

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 5,944 4,988 5,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.06% 14.77% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,065 3,186 4,219
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £511
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.65% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 66 166
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.36 £17.36
25th Percentile £20.20 £21.10 £23.72
Median hourly rate £43.84 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.50% -46.21% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.31 £56.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +101.49% -47.64% +73.15%

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 23 December 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 10 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 23 December 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 -35 21 £475 -6.17% 32
UK excluding London -40 18 £468 -20.22% 25
Work from Home -3 8 £400 -20.00% 16
South East -7 7 £495 - 10
North West -21 6 £338 -27.03% 5
North of England -41 6 £338 -27.03% 5
London -7 5 £638 +41.67% 11
Scotland +6 3 £500 -13.04% 1
South West -7 1 £575 - 3
East of England -22 1 £475 -20.83% 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 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Route 53
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) Firewall
2 12 (44.44%) Network Security
3 8 (29.63%) VLAN
4 7 (25.93%) VPN
5 6 (22.22%) DNS
5 6 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (22.22%) WAN
6 5 (18.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (18.52%) OSPF
7 4 (14.81%) LAN
8 3 (11.11%) BGP
8 3 (11.11%) DHCP
8 3 (11.11%) IPv4
8 3 (11.11%) IPv6
8 3 (11.11%) SSL
8 3 (11.11%) WLAN
9 2 (7.41%) EIGRP
9 2 (7.41%) Ethernet
9 2 (7.41%) Modbus
9 2 (7.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Big Data
1 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) InfluxDB
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) GitLab
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Nagios Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Network Designer
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.41%) SCADA
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Unix
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (7.41%) CentOS
6 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) Kanban
5 4 (14.81%) Network Design
5 4 (14.81%) Scrum
5 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 3 (11.11%) High Availability
6 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Bash
3 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) CCNP
2 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (18.52%) CCNA
4 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.11%) JNCIS
5 3 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (11.11%) RHCE
6 2 (7.41%) Degree
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.70%) CISM
7 1 (3.70%) CISSP
7 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.70%) JNCIA
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (18.52%) Docker
4 3 (11.11%) KVM
5 1 (3.70%) RHEV
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Ansible
2 11 (40.74%) Terraform
3 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
4 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
5 6 (22.22%) Grafana
5 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (11.11%) Argo
6 3 (11.11%) Rancher
7 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (3.70%) Fluentd
8 1 (3.70%) HAProxy
8 1 (3.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (3.70%) Kibana
8 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
8 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) SolarWinds
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) Juniper
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle
5 3 (11.11%) F5
6 2 (7.41%) Commvault
6 2 (7.41%) Infoblox
6 2 (7.41%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.70%) McAfee
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.70%) New Relic
7 1 (3.70%) Ribbon
7 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
7 1 (3.70%) Veeam
7 1 (3.70%) VMware