Nagios Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Nagios
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Nagios skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nagios over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 331 410
Rank change year-on-year +38 +79 +161
Contract jobs citing Nagios 11 14 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.091% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.85% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 58
10th Percentile £413 £345 £428
25th Percentile £438 £450 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.02% +5.75%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £595
90th Percentile £625 £632 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Nagios falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Nagios
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Nagios trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Nagios.

Nagios daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Nagios over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Nagios daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Nagios.

Nagios hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
4 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) BGP
1 4 (36.36%) Multicast
1 4 (36.36%) OSPF
2 3 (27.27%) Broadband
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) IPv6
2 3 (27.27%) MPLS
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
3 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
3 1 (9.09%) Unicast
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) AIX
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) ActionScript
4 1 (9.09%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCIE
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) IBM Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Ceph
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Samba
2 1 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (27.27%) ZABBIX
5 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (9.09%) Grafana
6 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
6 1 (9.09%) Icinga
6 1 (9.09%) Kibana
6 1 (9.09%) Observium
6 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (9.09%) Puppet
6 1 (9.09%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Commvault
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 2 (18.18%) Splunk
5 1 (9.09%) Arista
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) NetApp
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle