Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Nagios skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 590 778
Rank change year-on-year -73 +188 +40
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 55 53 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.23% 1.08% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 47 44 78
10th Percentile £42,025 £50,000 £35,413
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +56.86% -11.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £78,438
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £84,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.20% +22.50% +2.56%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,475 4,911 9,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.08% 11.71% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 3,382 7,300
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £49,524 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,100 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.17% +11.11% -6.09%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Nagios relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Nagios job vacancy trend in the UK

Nagios
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nagios.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nagios

Nagios
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 51 £68,750 -14.06% 16
London -20 26 £75,000 -6.25% 2
UK excluding London -53 26 £67,500 +10.20% 15
South East -29 9 £72,500 +26.09% 7
Work from Home +7 8 £43,750 -48.53% 8
South West -44 6 - - 5
North West -23 5 £65,000 +18.18%
Midlands -34 5 £67,500 -
North of England -59 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
West Midlands -25 3 £80,000 +18.52%
East Midlands - 2 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Nagios
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 4 (7.27%) nginx
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
2 2 (3.64%) JBoss
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 10 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Stack
6 3 (5.45%) Datadog
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.64%) GitHub
7 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) DNS
1 12 (21.82%) Firewall
2 11 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.73%) HTTP
3 7 (12.73%) LAN
3 7 (12.73%) Multicast
3 7 (12.73%) VPN
4 6 (10.91%) BGP
4 6 (10.91%) OSPF
5 5 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (9.09%) IGMP
5 5 (9.09%) VXLAN
6 4 (7.27%) VLAN
7 3 (5.45%) DHCP
7 3 (5.45%) Network Security
8 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.64%) SAN
8 2 (3.64%) SSL
8 2 (3.64%) WAN
8 2 (3.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) MySQL
2 5 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Redis
3 3 (5.45%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Git
2 14 (25.45%) GitLab
3 4 (7.27%) JIRA
4 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.64%) Subversion
6 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 24 (43.64%) Finance
3 21 (38.18%) Banking
4 19 (34.55%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Automotive
6 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Administrator
2 14 (25.45%) Linux Administrator
3 13 (23.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 13 (23.64%) Systems Administrator
4 11 (20.00%) Senior
5 8 (14.55%) Network Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Site Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) DBA
8 5 (9.09%) Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Linux Support
10 3 (5.45%) Senior DBA
10 3 (5.45%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) WebSockets
2 5 (9.09%) Node.js
2 5 (9.09%) React
3 3 (5.45%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.45%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.45%) LAMP
4 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.64%) CSS
4 2 (3.64%) CSS3
4 2 (3.64%) HTML
4 2 (3.64%) HTML5
4 2 (3.64%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.64%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.64%) OpenID
4 2 (3.64%) REST
5 1 (1.82%) gRPC
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) CMDB
3 2 (3.64%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.82%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (83.64%) Linux
2 18 (32.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (30.91%) Windows
4 15 (27.27%) CentOS
5 12 (21.82%) Windows Server
6 11 (20.00%) Ubuntu
7 5 (9.09%) Rocky
8 4 (7.27%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (5.45%) AIX
9 3 (5.45%) Unix
10 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (52.73%) DevOps
3 21 (38.18%) CI/CD
4 18 (32.73%) Configuration Management
5 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
6 13 (23.64%) Low Latency
6 13 (23.64%) Observability
7 11 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
8 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (16.36%) ITIL
9 8 (14.55%) Agile
9 8 (14.55%) High Availability
9 8 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (12.73%) Incident Response
10 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.73%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (12.73%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) Python
2 27 (49.09%) Bash
3 13 (23.64%) SQL
4 9 (16.36%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.27%) Java
6 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.45%) C
7 3 (5.45%) C++
7 3 (5.45%) Go
7 3 (5.45%) Korn
7 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) RHCSA
3 7 (12.73%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.09%) CCNP
4 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) CCIE
6 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Docker
2 19 (34.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Ansible
2 21 (38.18%) Kubernetes
3 18 (32.73%) Terraform
4 8 (14.55%) Grafana
4 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.09%) Data Guard
6 4 (7.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (5.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (3.64%) Check_MK
8 2 (3.64%) Kibana
8 2 (3.64%) Proxmox
8 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.82%) Argo
9 1 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.82%) Graylog
9 1 (1.82%) Icinga
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) VMware
2 17 (30.91%) Red Hat
3 16 (29.09%) SolarWinds
4 15 (27.27%) Splunk
5 9 (16.36%) Cisco
6 8 (14.55%) Fortinet
7 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.91%) Oracle
9 5 (9.09%) Arista
9 5 (9.09%) Rapid7
10 3 (5.45%) Commvault
10 3 (5.45%) IBM
11 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
11 2 (3.64%) CheckPoint
11 2 (3.64%) Epicor
11 2 (3.64%) F5
11 2 (3.64%) New Relic
11 2 (3.64%) TP-LINK
11 2 (3.64%) Veeam
12 1 (1.82%) Zerto