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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 463 538
Rank change year-on-year -143 +75 +101
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 5 55 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.078% 1.16% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 42 30
10th Percentile £330 £368 £371
25th Percentile £352 £485 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £600 £471
Median % change year-on-year -34.17% +27.52% -27.62%
75th Percentile £444 £734 £569
90th Percentile £470 £749 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £600 £465
% change year-on-year -34.17% +29.03% -15.45%
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 6,421 4,753 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.70% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,113 3,782
10th Percentile £315 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £633
90th Percentile £688 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 145
10th Percentile £18.43 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.20 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.65 £76.58 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.05% -39.78% -14.53%

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 5 March 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 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 5 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 -136 5 £395 -34.17% 20
London -84 3 - - 3
Work from Home -46 2 £315 -44.25% 4
UK excluding London -105 2 £395 -34.17% 17
South West -29 1 £315 -16.00% 8
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Zabbix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Ambari
2 1 (20.00%) Cacti
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) OpenView
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) VMware