Nagios Contracts

Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Nagios skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nagios over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 547 556
Rank change year-on-year +65 +9 +164
Contract jobs citing Nagios 37 53 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 1.03% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 110
10th Percentile £374 £393 £425
25th Percentile £438 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £575
90th Percentile £615 £688 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 30
10th Percentile - - £29.24
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £57.26
Median % change year-on-year - -30.14% -
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £57.26
% change year-on-year - -30.14% -

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nagios.

Daily rate trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nagios.

Hourly rate trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 12 Contract 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 30 April 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 +64 35 £525 +5.00% 20
London +40 19 £475 -5.00% 11
UK excluding London +44 18 £575 - 13
Work from Home +47 11 £500 -9.09% 15
South East +44 8 £575 +9.52% 1
North of England +32 6 £449 +13.97% 1
North West +14 5 £473 +20.00% 1
South West +40 3 £525 -
East of England +33 1 £600 -31.43% 3
Scotland +7 1 £500 +19.05%
Wales -1 1 £586 -9.08%
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) IIS
2 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) GCP
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) IaaS
3 9 (24.32%) OpenShift
3 9 (24.32%) PaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) Firewall
1 14 (37.84%) VPN
2 13 (35.14%) DNS
3 12 (32.43%) DHCP
4 9 (24.32%) SMTP
5 6 (16.22%) BGP
5 6 (16.22%) OSPF
6 5 (13.51%) MPLS
6 5 (13.51%) Network Security
7 4 (10.81%) Multicast
7 4 (10.81%) SNMP
7 4 (10.81%) SSH
8 3 (8.11%) Broadband
8 3 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (8.11%) IPv6
8 3 (8.11%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (8.11%) Telnet
8 3 (8.11%) Wireshark
9 2 (5.41%) WAN
10 1 (2.70%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (27.03%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (24.32%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) GitLab
3 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Support Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Network Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Principal Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Integration Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Principal Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.81%) JSON
3 3 (8.11%) XML
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.70%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.70%) Redfish
5 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Clustering
2 10 (27.03%) Data Centre
3 9 (24.32%) PKI
4 4 (10.81%) Replication
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
5 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.70%) CMDB
6 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Linux
2 14 (37.84%) Windows
3 13 (35.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (16.22%) CentOS
5 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.41%) Unix
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.70%) AIX
7 1 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.70%) Rocky
7 1 (2.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (24.32%) Configuration Management
3 9 (24.32%) High Availability
3 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (24.32%) Machine Learning
3 9 (24.32%) Software Deployment
4 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
6 6 (16.22%) Migration
6 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.81%) Database Tuning
8 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.81%) ITIL
9 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (8.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
3 9 (24.32%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.70%) C-shell
7 1 (2.70%) Korn
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) Degree
3 9 (24.32%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.11%) CCIE
5 3 (8.11%) CISSP
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) CCNA
6 2 (5.41%) CISA
6 2 (5.41%) CISM
6 2 (5.41%) RHCE
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) CSSLP
7 1 (2.70%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 2 (5.41%) NIST 800
3 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Docker
2 12 (32.43%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
4 9 (24.32%) BitLocker
4 9 (24.32%) Hyper-V
4 9 (24.32%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (24.32%) Terminal Services
5 3 (8.11%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (8.11%) iptables
6 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.70%) Ceph
7 1 (2.70%) Firmware
7 1 (2.70%) KVM
7 1 (2.70%) NFS
7 1 (2.70%) Samba
7 1 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (59.46%) Ansible
2 18 (48.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (43.24%) Puppet
4 10 (27.03%) Terraform
4 10 (27.03%) vCenter Server
5 9 (24.32%) vMotion
6 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (21.62%) ZABBIX
7 5 (13.51%) Grafana
8 4 (10.81%) Proxmox
9 3 (8.11%) Cacti
9 3 (8.11%) Netcool
9 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
10 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
10 2 (5.41%) SCCM
11 1 (2.70%) Kibana
11 1 (2.70%) logstash
11 1 (2.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) VMware
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (35.14%) HP
4 11 (29.73%) Red Hat
5 10 (27.03%) Google
6 9 (24.32%) Citrix
6 9 (24.32%) SolarWinds
6 9 (24.32%) Symantec
7 6 (16.22%) Cisco
8 5 (13.51%) Splunk
9 3 (8.11%) Dell
9 3 (8.11%) IBM
9 3 (8.11%) Nokia
9 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
10 2 (5.41%) Commvault
10 2 (5.41%) Juniper
10 2 (5.41%) Oracle
10 2 (5.41%) Qualys
10 2 (5.41%) Snow