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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 552 535
Rank change year-on-year -100 -17 +51
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 33 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.024% 0.057%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.56% 0.18% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 13
10th Percentile £289 £304 £381
25th Percentile £310 £343 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £475 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% -22.13% +16.19%
75th Percentile £507 £488 £650
90th Percentile £715 £493 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 - £488
% change year-on-year - - -11.36%

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 5,937 4,569 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.02% 13.87% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 2,963 3,173
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 80 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.00 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -30.23%
75th Percentile £71.22 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £84.72 £78.83 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.31 £55.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +15.10% +42.86% -16.63%

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 29 August 2026.

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 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 ZABBIX within the UK over the 6 months to 29 August 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 -92 29 £426 -4.27% 19
UK excluding London - 22 £419 - 8
South West - 17 £371 - 2
London -74 9 £475 +6.74% 11
Work from Home -52 7 £675 - 1
North of England - 3 £413 - 2
North East - 2 £438 - 1
Scotland - 2 £500 -
North West - 1 £350 -

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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) JBoss
1 1 (3.03%) MTS
1 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) GitHub
2 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.06%) Serverless
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Datadog
3 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (72.73%) SNMP
2 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) HTTP
3 2 (6.06%) Multicast
3 2 (6.06%) SSH
3 2 (6.06%) SSL
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.03%) NAS
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) SAN
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Front Office
3 1 (3.03%) Retail
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Consultant
2 14 (42.42%) Management Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) REST
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) cloud-init
3 2 (6.06%) OpenID
3 2 (6.06%) SAML
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) CMDB
2 1 (3.03%) Eurex
2 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Linux
2 22 (66.67%) Windows
3 18 (54.55%) AIX
4 4 (12.12%) Unix
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Rocky
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) CentOS
6 1 (3.03%) SUSE
6 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Dashboard Development
2 10 (30.30%) Observability
3 8 (24.24%) Change Management
3 8 (24.24%) High Availability
4 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (12.12%) Compliance Audit
7 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 3 (9.09%) Service Management
9 2 (6.06%) Algorithmic Trading
9 2 (6.06%) Project Management
9 2 (6.06%) Release Management
9 2 (6.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 22 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 17 (51.52%) Search Processing Language
4 16 (48.48%) SQL
5 7 (21.21%) Bash
6 3 (9.09%) Java
7 2 (6.06%) C++
7 2 (6.06%) Go
7 2 (6.06%) Groovy
7 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.03%) REXX
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
1 3 (9.09%) NFS
2 2 (6.06%) Samba
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.03%) iptables
3 1 (3.03%) KVM
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Nagios
2 18 (54.55%) Netcool
3 17 (51.52%) Tivoli
4 15 (45.45%) OpenView
4 15 (45.45%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 7 (21.21%) Ansible
6 4 (12.12%) Grafana
6 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
6 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.06%) Consul
7 2 (6.06%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (6.06%) Packer
7 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.03%) Check_MK
8 1 (3.03%) OpenNMS
8 1 (3.03%) Puppet
8 1 (3.03%) Rundeck
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) SELinux
8 1 (3.03%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) Splunk
2 21 (63.64%) SolarWinds
3 19 (57.58%) BMC
4 17 (51.52%) IBM
5 15 (45.45%) HP
6 4 (12.12%) Dynatrace
7 2 (6.06%) ION Trading
7 2 (6.06%) VMware
8 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
8 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
8 1 (3.03%) Dell
8 1 (3.03%) EMC
8 1 (3.03%) MarketAxess
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.03%) NetApp
8 1 (3.03%) SaltStack
8 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.03%) Tenable
8 1 (3.03%) Tradeweb