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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 478 555
Rank change year-on-year -128 +77 +87
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 24 46 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.16% 0.062%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 1.00% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 13
10th Percentile £285 £388 £366
25th Percentile £306 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -8.44% -13.46%
75th Percentile £553 £738 £615
90th Percentile £724 £750 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -31.25% +18.81% -19.20%

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 6,482 4,596 5,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 15.71% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,464 3,149 3,667
10th Percentile £325 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.90% -8.41%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 52 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.51 £17.77
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.88 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -12.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
UK excluding London -93 20 £413 -31.25% 15
England -124 20 £413 -19.90% 21
South West -17 16 £371 -1.20% 7
Work from Home -47 7 £675 +35.00% 4
London -79 2 £625 +21.36% 4
North of England -80 2 £381 -45.54% 4
Scotland - 2 £500 -
North East -20 1 £413 -45.00% 1
North West -48 1 £350 -17.65% 2

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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) JBoss
1 1 (4.17%) MTS
1 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.17%) GitHub
1 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
1 1 (4.17%) Serverless
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) SNMP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) Multicast
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Front Office
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Consultant
2 14 (58.33%) Management Consultant
3 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) IT Consultant
3 1 (4.17%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Network Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Zabbix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Eurex
2 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Linux
2 20 (83.33%) Windows
3 18 (75.00%) AIX
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.17%) Rocky
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Dashboard Development
2 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) High Availability
4 3 (12.50%) Observability
5 2 (8.33%) Change Management
5 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.17%) Event Correlation
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.17%) Process Management
6 1 (4.17%) Release Automation
6 1 (4.17%) Runbook
6 1 (4.17%) Task Automation
6 1 (4.17%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Python
2 20 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 17 (70.83%) Search Processing Language
4 15 (62.50%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) REXX
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) iptables
1 1 (4.17%) NFS
1 1 (4.17%) Samba
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) Nagios
2 18 (75.00%) Netcool
3 17 (70.83%) Tivoli
4 15 (62.50%) OpenView
4 15 (62.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 3 (12.50%) Ansible
6 2 (8.33%) Grafana
7 1 (4.17%) Cacti
7 1 (4.17%) Consul
7 1 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
7 1 (4.17%) Packer
7 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.17%) Rundeck
7 1 (4.17%) SELinux
7 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (4.17%) systemd
7 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Splunk
2 19 (79.17%) BMC
2 19 (79.17%) SolarWinds
3 17 (70.83%) IBM
4 15 (62.50%) HP
5 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
6 1 (4.17%) MarketAxess
6 1 (4.17%) SaltStack
6 1 (4.17%) Tradeweb