Nagios Job Trends

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 592 741
Rank change year-on-year -51 +149 +110
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 54 45 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.22% 0.93% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 41 36 94
10th Percentile £43,375 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +52.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,188 £81,219
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £66,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +29.90% +2.00%

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 4,434 4,860 9,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 11.50% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,057 3,417 7,149
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 21 March 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 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 51 £72,500 -9.38% 14
UK excluding London -26 28 £68,750 +3.77% 13
London -11 24 £75,000 -7.69% 1
South East -12 10 £72,500 +141.67% 4
Work from Home +4 8 £43,750 -48.53% 8
South West -26 7 - - 4
Midlands -14 6 £67,500 -
North West -15 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
North of England -50 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands 0 3 £80,000 +18.52%
East Midlands - 3 £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 (7.41%) nginx
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) JBoss
3 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) AWS
2 17 (31.48%) Azure
3 11 (20.37%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Stack
6 3 (5.56%) Datadog
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
7 2 (3.70%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) Firewall
2 10 (18.52%) DNS
3 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
4 7 (12.96%) Multicast
4 7 (12.96%) VPN
5 6 (11.11%) VLAN
6 5 (9.26%) BGP
6 5 (9.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (9.26%) HTTP
6 5 (9.26%) IGMP
6 5 (9.26%) LAN
6 5 (9.26%) Network Security
6 5 (9.26%) OSPF
6 5 (9.26%) VXLAN
7 3 (5.56%) DHCP
8 2 (3.70%) SAN
8 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.70%) SSL
8 2 (3.70%) WAN
8 2 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) MySQL
2 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
2 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.56%) Redis
3 3 (5.56%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.85%) DTS
5 1 (1.85%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (42.59%) Git
2 11 (20.37%) GitLab
3 7 (12.96%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) Subversion
5 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (38.89%) Finance
3 19 (35.19%) Banking
4 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.81%) Manufacturing
6 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Automotive
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Administrator
2 12 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (20.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 11 (20.37%) Senior
3 11 (20.37%) Systems Administrator
4 8 (14.81%) Network Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Site Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) DBA
7 5 (9.26%) Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (7.41%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Node.js
1 5 (9.26%) React
1 5 (9.26%) WebSockets
2 4 (7.41%) LDAP
3 3 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.56%) LAMP
4 2 (3.70%) CSS
4 2 (3.70%) CSS3
4 2 (3.70%) HTML
4 2 (3.70%) HTML5
4 2 (3.70%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.70%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.70%) OpenID
4 2 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Data Centre
2 10 (18.52%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.26%) CMDB
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
4 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.85%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (83.33%) Linux
2 20 (37.04%) Windows
3 16 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (27.78%) CentOS
5 11 (20.37%) Ubuntu
6 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (9.26%) Rocky
8 4 (7.41%) Mac OS
8 4 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (5.56%) AIX
9 3 (5.56%) Unix
10 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (44.44%) DevOps
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (25.93%) ITIL
7 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 12 (22.22%) Low Latency
7 12 (22.22%) Observability
8 11 (20.37%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (18.52%) ITSM
10 9 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (12.96%) Incident Response
12 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
13 6 (11.11%) Agile
13 6 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
13 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (51.85%) Python
2 24 (44.44%) Bash
3 11 (20.37%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) C
7 3 (5.56%) C++
7 3 (5.56%) Korn
7 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.70%) Go
9 1 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (11.11%) RHCSA
4 5 (9.26%) CCNP
4 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.41%) CCIE
5 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.85%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) QA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
1 17 (31.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Ansible
2 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (29.63%) Terraform
4 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (12.96%) Grafana
6 6 (11.11%) ZABBIX
7 5 (9.26%) Data Guard
8 4 (7.41%) SCCM
8 4 (7.41%) vCenter Server
9 3 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (3.70%) Proxmox
10 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.85%) Argo
11 1 (1.85%) Check_MK
11 1 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.85%) Graylog
11 1 (1.85%) Kibana
11 1 (1.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) VMware
2 16 (29.63%) Red Hat
3 15 (27.78%) SolarWinds
4 14 (25.93%) Splunk
5 13 (24.07%) Fortinet
6 11 (20.37%) Cisco
7 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
8 6 (11.11%) Oracle
9 5 (9.26%) Arista
9 5 (9.26%) Rapid7
10 4 (7.41%) CheckPoint
10 4 (7.41%) F5
10 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
11 3 (5.56%) IBM
12 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
12 2 (3.70%) Commvault
12 2 (3.70%) Epicor
12 2 (3.70%) New Relic
12 2 (3.70%) TP-LINK
12 2 (3.70%) Veeam