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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 471 546
Rank change year-on-year -131 +75 +99
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 8 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% 1.20% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 44 30
10th Percentile £304 £378 £371
25th Percentile £305 £469 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £559 £471
Median % change year-on-year -44.47% +18.76% -27.62%
75th Percentile £314 £728 £569
90th Percentile £314 £746 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £600 £465
% change year-on-year -48.29% +29.03% -16.40%
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 6,310 4,741 5,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.78% 16.11% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,351 3,148 3,810
10th Percentile £315 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £690 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 52 150
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £22.14 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £77.19 £76.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.14%

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
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 6 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 12 March 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 -140 7 £310 -44.47% 23
UK excluding London -100 5 £310 -48.29% 20
South West -19 4 £310 -17.27% 7
Work from Home -46 3 £315 -44.25% 5
London -81 3 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - -

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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack Swift
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Management Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Zabbix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) AIX
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Rocky
5 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) iptables
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
1 1 (12.50%) Samba
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nagios
1 4 (50.00%) Netcool
1 4 (50.00%) OpenView
1 4 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (50.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Ambari
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Cacti
3 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Rundeck
3 1 (12.50%) SELinux
3 1 (12.50%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) BMC
1 4 (50.00%) HP
1 4 (50.00%) IBM
1 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) SaltStack