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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 666 628
Rank change year-on-year +62 -38 +270
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 45 57 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.099% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 0.91% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 64
10th Percentile £31,250 £43,206 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £45,665 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year +15.79% -14.80% -10.80%

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 4,281 6,288 7,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.29% 10.97% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 3,909 6,210
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,235
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,063 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.10% -2.06%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 44 £55,000 -18.52% 55
UK excluding London +45 28 £55,000 +15.79% 52
London +54 17 £50,625 -38.64% 8
Midlands +39 13 £51,250 -24.07% 9
East Midlands - 9 - - 4
Work from Home +68 8 £43,750 -37.50% 13
South East +28 6 £55,000 +22.27% 16
South West +4 5 - - 7
West Midlands +30 4 £51,250 -24.07% 4
North West +33 2 £60,000 -4.00% 6
East of England +26 2 £52,500 -41.67% 9
North of England +22 2 £60,000 -4.00% 11

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 13 (28.89%) SharePoint
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 17 (37.78%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (28.89%) GCP
4 12 (26.67%) Azure
5 9 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.89%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.44%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.22%) Datadog
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.22%) OCI
9 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) Firewall
2 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 10 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 9 (20.00%) Skype
4 8 (17.78%) LAN
4 8 (17.78%) Network Security
4 8 (17.78%) VLAN
5 7 (15.56%) VPN
5 7 (15.56%) WAN
6 5 (11.11%) DHCP
7 4 (8.89%) HTTP
8 3 (6.67%) BGP
8 3 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (6.67%) FTP
8 3 (6.67%) IGMP
8 3 (6.67%) Multicast
8 3 (6.67%) OSPF
8 3 (6.67%) SMTP
8 3 (6.67%) VXLAN
9 2 (4.44%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) DTS
2 7 (15.56%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.22%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.22%) Redis
6 1 (2.22%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) Subversion
3 2 (4.44%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (20.00%) Retail
4 8 (17.78%) Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Support
2 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) DBA
5 5 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 4 (8.89%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (8.89%) Support Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Linux Support
7 3 (6.67%) Linux Support Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) LDAP
2 3 (6.67%) LAMP
3 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) React
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 12 (26.67%) CMDB
3 9 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (8.89%) CCTV
4 4 (8.89%) Clustering
4 4 (8.89%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Windows
2 24 (53.33%) Linux
3 13 (28.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (11.11%) CentOS
7 4 (8.89%) Mac OS
7 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
8 3 (6.67%) Rocky
9 2 (4.44%) VMS
10 1 (2.22%) Unix
10 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (24.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 9 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 9 (20.00%) Server Management
7 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
7 8 (17.78%) ITIL
8 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (15.56%) ITSM
9 6 (13.33%) DevOps
10 5 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 5 (11.11%) Low Latency
10 5 (11.11%) Network Design
11 4 (8.89%) Asset Management
11 4 (8.89%) Data Analysis
11 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
11 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (4.44%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) Groovy
6 2 (4.44%) Perl
6 2 (4.44%) Ruby
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) C++
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) PromQL
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Degree
2 9 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) CCNP
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.89%) CCIE
6 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.44%) CCNA
7 2 (4.44%) JNCIA
7 2 (4.44%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.22%) CCA
8 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.22%) OCA
8 1 (2.22%) OCP
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (35.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (8.89%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.67%) Docker
6 2 (4.44%) KVM
6 2 (4.44%) RHEV
6 2 (4.44%) Xen
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) ZABBIX
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (17.78%) SCCM
4 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 7 (15.56%) Terraform
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
6 4 (8.89%) vCenter Server
7 3 (6.67%) Data Guard
7 3 (6.67%) Grafana
8 2 (4.44%) Proxmox
9 1 (2.22%) Argo
9 1 (2.22%) Icinga
9 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
1 17 (37.78%) SolarWinds
2 16 (35.56%) Cisco
2 16 (35.56%) VMware
3 15 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 12 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 10 (22.22%) Darktrace
6 9 (20.00%) BMC
6 9 (20.00%) Citrix
6 9 (20.00%) Google
6 9 (20.00%) Proofpoint
6 9 (20.00%) Tanium
6 9 (20.00%) Trend Micro
7 7 (15.56%) F5
8 6 (13.33%) Oracle
9 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
10 4 (8.89%) Arista
10 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
10 4 (8.89%) Symantec
11 3 (6.67%) Splunk