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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 478 540
Rank change year-on-year -120 +62 +3
Contract jobs citing Nagios 43 39 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 0.84% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 32
10th Percentile £304 £354 £420
25th Percentile £326 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £667
90th Percentile £683 £618 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -25.91% -1.50% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +43.75% -5.88%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 6,610 4,638 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.35% 15.87% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,506 3,133 3,826
10th Percentile £325 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £498 £489
% change year-on-year -0.50% +1.74% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 48 98
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.77
25th Percentile £25.51 £20.76 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.41% +8.13% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.29 £50.19
90th Percentile £76.80 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -107 40 £426 -14.80% 10
UK excluding London -79 38 £426 -25.91% 8
South West -8 21 £400 -23.81% 3
South East -55 9 £495 -13.91% 2
Work from Home -56 9 £430 -14.00% 2
North West -42 7 £340 -28.04%
North of England -73 7 £340 -24.23% 1
London -87 3 £625 +31.58% 3
Scotland -6 1 £500 - 1

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 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) IaaS
4 2 (4.65%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) SNMP
2 14 (32.56%) Network Security
3 13 (30.23%) Firewall
4 12 (27.91%) VPN
5 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
6 9 (20.93%) DHCP
6 9 (20.93%) DNS
6 9 (20.93%) VLAN
7 7 (16.28%) LAN
7 7 (16.28%) WAN
8 6 (13.95%) WLAN
9 5 (11.63%) BGP
9 5 (11.63%) OSPF
10 4 (9.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (9.30%) IPv4
10 4 (9.30%) IPv6
11 2 (4.65%) SMTP
12 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
12 1 (2.33%) SAN
12 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Consultant
2 14 (32.56%) Management Consultant
3 6 (13.95%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Server Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Designer
4 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Network Designer
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Senior Designer
4 3 (6.98%) Senior Network Designer
5 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) React
3 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) LDAP
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Clustering
2 7 (16.28%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (67.44%) Windows
2 25 (58.14%) Linux
3 19 (44.19%) AIX
4 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.65%) Unix
6 1 (2.33%) CentOS
6 1 (2.33%) Rocky
6 1 (2.33%) SUSE
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Dashboard Development
2 9 (20.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (16.28%) Project Delivery
4 6 (13.95%) DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.63%) Network Design
6 4 (9.30%) Agile
6 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.30%) High Availability
6 4 (9.30%) Incident Response
6 4 (9.30%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (9.30%) Performance Testing
7 3 (6.98%) Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineering
7 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (6.98%) Software Deployment
7 3 (6.98%) Task Automation
7 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) PowerShell
2 24 (55.81%) Python
3 17 (39.53%) Search Processing Language
4 14 (32.56%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) C
7 1 (2.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) DV Cleared
4 10 (23.26%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (20.93%) CCNP
6 5 (11.63%) CCNA
6 5 (11.63%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (9.30%) JNCIS
8 2 (4.65%) Degree
9 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.33%) JNCIA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
1 9 (20.93%) Hyper-V
2 7 (16.28%) Docker
3 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.65%) BitLocker
4 2 (4.65%) KVM
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (4.65%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) NFS
5 1 (2.33%) RHEV
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) ZABBIX
2 18 (41.86%) Netcool
3 17 (39.53%) Tivoli
4 15 (34.88%) OpenView
4 15 (34.88%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 11 (25.58%) Ansible
6 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
6 7 (16.28%) Terraform
7 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (9.30%) Grafana
8 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
9 3 (6.98%) Argo
10 2 (4.65%) Puppet
10 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
10 2 (4.65%) vMotion
11 1 (2.33%) Proxmox
11 1 (2.33%) SCCM
11 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (81.40%) SolarWinds
2 20 (46.51%) Splunk
3 19 (44.19%) BMC
4 17 (39.53%) HP
4 17 (39.53%) IBM
5 10 (23.26%) Cisco
6 9 (20.93%) Juniper
7 5 (11.63%) VMware
8 4 (9.30%) F5
9 2 (4.65%) Citrix
9 2 (4.65%) Google
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
9 2 (4.65%) Symantec
10 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.33%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.33%) NetScout
10 1 (2.33%) Red Hat