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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 534 566
Rank change year-on-year +38 +32 +154
Contract jobs citing Nagios 38 51 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 0.96% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 87
10th Percentile £349 £416 £408
25th Percentile £413 £458 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £667 £575
90th Percentile £603 £690 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £596 £521
% change year-on-year -7.76% +14.39% +4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 16
10th Percentile - - £25.41
25th Percentile £56.25 - £29.30
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £58.75 - £47.25
90th Percentile - - £49.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £42.50
% 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 4,815 5,339 8,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.71% 12.37% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 3,814 6,080
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -5.45% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 103 186
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.50
25th Percentile £20.54 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.36 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.34 £71.25 £83.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.38
% change year-on-year +37.50% -7.78% +116.88%

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 June 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 13 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 June 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 +53 35 £513 - 42
UK excluding London +25 18 £550 -7.76% 23
London +55 16 £475 -5.00% 25
Work from Home +43 13 £500 -14.89% 11
South East +56 8 £575 - 7
North of England +5 5 £425 - 4
North West +9 4 £475 +11.76% 4
South West +35 3 £525 - 4
Midlands +12 2 - - 3
West Midlands +8 2 - - 1
East of England +26 1 £400 -54.29% 4
Scotland +2 1 £500 +19.05%
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 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) nginx
3 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) GCP
3 9 (23.68%) IaaS
3 9 (23.68%) OpenShift
3 9 (23.68%) PaaS
4 8 (21.05%) Azure
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) Firewall
2 15 (39.47%) DHCP
2 15 (39.47%) DNS
3 14 (36.84%) VPN
4 11 (28.95%) BGP
4 11 (28.95%) OSPF
5 9 (23.68%) SMTP
6 7 (18.42%) VLAN
7 5 (13.16%) EIGRP
7 5 (13.16%) Network Security
8 4 (10.53%) MPLS
8 4 (10.53%) Multicast
8 4 (10.53%) SNMP
8 4 (10.53%) SSH
9 3 (7.89%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (7.89%) TACACS
9 3 (7.89%) Telnet
9 3 (7.89%) WAN
9 3 (7.89%) Wireshark
10 2 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (26.32%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (23.68%) Big Data
3 3 (7.89%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) GitLab
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (21.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Principal Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.53%) JSON
2 3 (7.89%) XML
3 2 (5.26%) LAMP
3 2 (5.26%) Zend Framework
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.63%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Clustering
2 9 (23.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (23.68%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) CMDB
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Linux
2 15 (39.47%) Windows
3 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (21.05%) CentOS
5 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
8 2 (5.26%) Debian
8 2 (5.26%) Unix
8 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (2.63%) AIX
9 1 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (2.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) DevOps
2 11 (28.95%) Software Deployment
3 10 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (26.32%) High Availability
3 10 (26.32%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
5 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
5 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (10.53%) Change Management
9 4 (10.53%) Database Tuning
9 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) Bash
3 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) Perl
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
6 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) Degree
3 8 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.89%) CCNA
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.26%) CCIE
6 2 (5.26%) RHCE
7 1 (2.63%) CCNP
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.63%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.63%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.63%) RHCSA
7 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Docker
2 14 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (28.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (28.95%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (23.68%) BitLocker
4 9 (23.68%) Hyper-V
4 9 (23.68%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (23.68%) Terminal Services
5 3 (7.89%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (7.89%) iptables
6 2 (5.26%) VirtualBox
6 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.63%) Ceph
7 1 (2.63%) KVM
7 1 (2.63%) NFS
7 1 (2.63%) Samba
7 1 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Ansible
2 17 (44.74%) Puppet
3 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 9 (23.68%) Terraform
4 9 (23.68%) vCenter Server
4 9 (23.68%) vMotion
5 7 (18.42%) Prometheus
5 7 (18.42%) ZABBIX
6 5 (13.16%) Grafana
6 5 (13.16%) Progress Chef
7 4 (10.53%) Icinga
8 3 (7.89%) Cacti
8 3 (7.89%) Netcool
8 3 (7.89%) Proxmox
9 2 (5.26%) Observium
9 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (5.26%) Salt
10 1 (2.63%) Graylog
10 1 (2.63%) logstash
10 1 (2.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) VMware
2 12 (31.58%) HP
2 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (28.95%) SolarWinds
4 10 (26.32%) Cisco
4 10 (26.32%) Google
5 9 (23.68%) Citrix
5 9 (23.68%) Red Hat
5 9 (23.68%) Symantec
6 4 (10.53%) Arista
6 4 (10.53%) Juniper
6 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.53%) Splunk
7 3 (7.89%) IBM
7 3 (7.89%) Nokia
8 2 (5.26%) Dell
8 2 (5.26%) Huawei
8 2 (5.26%) Oracle
8 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
8 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow