ZABBIX Contract Job Trends

ZABBIX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ZABBIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 516 561
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 +113
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 8 33 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.092% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.64% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 43
10th Percentile - £305 £403
25th Percentile £304 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +30.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £458 £700 £588
90th Percentile £476 £746 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

ZABBIX 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 5,670 5,156 6,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 14.31% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,779 3,307 4,776
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £30.31
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.08 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% -29.65% +99.46%
75th Percentile £63.36 £60.63 £74.84
90th Percentile £77.18 £74.72 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £36.17 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.58% -21.69% +105.24%

ZABBIX
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ZABBIX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ZABBIX job vacancy trend in the UK

ZABBIX
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ZABBIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ZABBIX

ZABBIX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ZABBIX over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ZABBIX in the UK

ZABBIX
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ZABBIX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ZABBIX

ZABBIX
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ZABBIX within the UK over the 6 months to 11 November 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 -50 8 £361 -44.42% 32
London -14 7 £308 -52.69% 13
Work from Home +1 2 - - 14
UK excluding London -54 1 £475 -2.56% 19
East of England - 1 £475 -

ZABBIX
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 (37.50%) Confluence
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) MQSeries
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Zabbix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Equities
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Runbook
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Ambari
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Cacti
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
3 1 (12.50%) Calypso
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Murex
3 1 (12.50%) Reuters
3 1 (12.50%) Sophis
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) VMware