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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 498 492
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 +96
Contract jobs citing Nagios 29 31 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.098% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.65% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 51
10th Percentile £338 £373 £313
25th Percentile £381 £422 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £486 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.66% +2.00%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £578
90th Percentile £613 £628 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.38% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £35.02
25th Percentile - £12.50 £38.53
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile - £21.88 -
90th Percentile - £31.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -67.50% -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 5,959 4,746 5,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 14.98% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,128 3,060 3,978
10th Percentile £313 £312 £269
25th Percentile £413 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 167
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.33 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.40% -42.62% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £58.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.39% -47.64% +13.81%

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 January 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 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 January 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 -51 23 £485 +4.86% 17
UK excluding London -55 20 £475 -5.00% 18
Work from Home -7 8 £400 -20.00% 5
South East -15 8 £498 - 8
North West -25 6 £338 -27.03%
North of England -53 6 £338 -27.03%
London -34 5 £638 +41.67% 4
Scotland +8 3 £500 -13.04% 3
South West -12 2 £575 - 3
East of England -21 1 £475 -20.83% 3

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 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Route 53
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) Firewall
2 13 (44.83%) Network Security
3 9 (31.03%) VLAN
4 8 (27.59%) VPN
5 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
6 6 (20.69%) DNS
6 6 (20.69%) WAN
7 5 (17.24%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (17.24%) OSPF
8 4 (13.79%) IPv4
8 4 (13.79%) IPv6
8 4 (13.79%) LAN
9 3 (10.34%) BGP
9 3 (10.34%) DHCP
9 3 (10.34%) SSL
9 3 (10.34%) WLAN
10 2 (6.90%) EIGRP
10 2 (6.90%) Ethernet
10 2 (6.90%) HTTP
10 2 (6.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Big Data
1 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.90%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Network Engineer
1 6 (20.69%) Server Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Network Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Network Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Nagios Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
1 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (13.79%) Unix
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.90%) CentOS
6 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.24%) Network Design
5 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Kanban
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Scrum
7 3 (10.34%) Capacity Management
7 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.34%) High Availability
7 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) CCNP
2 10 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.69%) CCNA
4 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
5 4 (13.79%) JNCIS
5 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (10.34%) RHCE
7 2 (6.90%) Degree
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) CISM
8 1 (3.45%) CISSP
8 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (3.45%) JNCIA
8 1 (3.45%) MCSE
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.34%) KVM
4 1 (3.45%) RHEV
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Ansible
2 11 (37.93%) Terraform
3 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
5 7 (24.14%) Grafana
6 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (13.79%) Argo
8 3 (10.34%) Rancher
9 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (3.45%) Fluentd
10 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
10 1 (3.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (3.45%) Kibana
10 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
10 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) SolarWinds
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco
2 7 (24.14%) Juniper
3 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 4 (13.79%) F5
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) Commvault
5 2 (6.90%) Infoblox
5 2 (6.90%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.45%) McAfee
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (3.45%) Ribbon
6 1 (3.45%) SaltStack
6 1 (3.45%) Veeam
6 1 (3.45%) VMware