Hybrid/Remote ZABBIX Contract Job Trends

ZABBIX
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ZABBIX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 280 349
Rank change year-on-year -50 +69 +98
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 4 22 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.034% 0.22% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 1.40% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 5
10th Percentile £307 £444 -
25th Percentile £308 £495 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% +5.26% -19.15%
75th Percentile £313 £688 £488
90th Percentile £314 £750 £555
UK median daily rate £308 £530 £450
% change year-on-year -41.98% +17.78% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

ZABBIX 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 1,721 1,577 1,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.52% 15.53% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,138 1,289
10th Percentile £360 £375 £356
25th Percentile £429 £433 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +0.95% -7.89%
75th Percentile £606 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £779 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 25
10th Percentile £36.10 £13.49 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £25.25 £40.31
Median hourly rate £68.00 £26.88 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.02% -44.01% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £99.80 £68.38 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

ZABBIX
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ZABBIX and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ZABBIX job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

ZABBIX
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing ZABBIX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing ZABBIX

ZABBIX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Zabbix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Rocky
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) iptables
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
1 2 (50.00%) Netcool
1 2 (50.00%) OpenView
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Cacti
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (25.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) SaltStack