ZABBIX Contracts

ZABBIX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ZABBIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ZABBIX over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 556 628
Rank change year-on-year +32 +72 +115
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 26 18 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.042% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.33% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 37
10th Percentile £413 £353 £265
25th Percentile £463 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -9.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile - £625 £650
90th Percentile £600 £696 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% -16.00%

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 4,998 5,430 8,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.53% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 3,860 6,174
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.80
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% +130.00%

ZABBIX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ZABBIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ZABBIX in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ZABBIX.

Daily rate trend for ZABBIX in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ZABBIX over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ZABBIX in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ZABBIX.

Hourly rate trend for ZABBIX in the UK

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Top 7 Contract 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 July 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 +61 24 £500 -18.03% 92
London +59 17 £500 -2.44% 46
Work from Home +38 14 £500 -18.03% 20
UK excluding London +36 7 £425 -10.53% 51
North of England +5 6 £425 -30.33% 11
North West +5 6 £425 -20.75% 6
South West - 3 £375 - 7

ZABBIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 10 (38.46%) BGP
2 10 (38.46%) OSPF
3 9 (34.62%) VPN
4 8 (30.77%) MPLS
4 8 (30.77%) Network Security
5 7 (26.92%) Multicast
6 5 (19.23%) Broadband
6 5 (19.23%) GPON
6 5 (19.23%) IPv6
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (15.38%) IPsec
7 4 (15.38%) TACACS
8 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (11.54%) IOS XR
8 3 (11.54%) SSH
8 3 (11.54%) Telnet
8 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Banking
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Network Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) Principal Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Principal Network Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Implementation Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Principal Security Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Core Network Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Exchange Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Administrator
9 1 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) JSON
2 3 (11.54%) XML
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.54%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Derivative
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) CentOS
4 2 (7.69%) VMS
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (42.31%) Migration
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (23.08%) ITIL
4 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.54%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (11.54%) Database Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Event Correlation
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
7 3 (11.54%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (23.08%) CCIE
3 5 (19.23%) CCIE Service Provider
4 3 (11.54%) CCNA
4 3 (11.54%) CCNP
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CCIE Security
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.85%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.85%) RHCE
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (11.54%) iptables
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.85%) Ceph
4 1 (3.85%) NFS
4 1 (3.85%) Samba
4 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Ansible
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) Nagios
4 5 (19.23%) Grafana
4 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 5 (19.23%) Puppet
5 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (11.54%) Cacti
6 3 (11.54%) Netcool
6 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
7 2 (7.69%) Graylog
8 1 (3.85%) Foglight
8 1 (3.85%) logstash
8 1 (3.85%) SELinux
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) SolarWinds
2 15 (57.69%) Cisco
3 11 (42.31%) Nokia
4 5 (19.23%) VMware
5 4 (15.38%) Splunk
6 2 (7.69%) Arista
6 2 (7.69%) Dell
6 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.69%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) IBM
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.85%) Databricks
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) Huawei
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto