Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Nagios skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Nagios over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 789 838
Rank change year-on-year +158 +49 +137
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 53 96 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.07% 0.96% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 44 77 90
10th Percentile £50,000 £34,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £51,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.86% -13.56% -1.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £65,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £77,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Nagios.

Salary trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 11 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 30 April 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 +145 52 £80,000 +56.86% 20
London +111 38 £80,000 +0.16% 11
Work from Home +157 18 £85,000 +9.68% 15
UK excluding London +158 14 £57,500 +15.00% 13
South East +101 5 £57,500 +57.32% 1
Midlands +59 3 - - 4
West Midlands +49 3 - - 2
East of England - 3 £90,000 - 3
North of England +78 2 £55,000 -12.00% 1
North West +33 2 £55,000 +30.95% 1
South West +83 1 - -

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (15.09%) nginx
2 7 (13.21%) Apache
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (5.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 30 (56.60%) AWS
2 29 (54.72%) Azure
3 23 (43.40%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.66%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.66%) Serverless
8 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (49.06%) Firewall
2 12 (22.64%) DNS
2 12 (22.64%) VPN
3 8 (15.09%) BGP
3 8 (15.09%) MPLS
3 8 (15.09%) OSPF
4 5 (9.43%) DHCP
4 5 (9.43%) Network Security
4 5 (9.43%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (9.43%) SMTP
4 5 (9.43%) SSL
4 5 (9.43%) VLAN
5 4 (7.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (7.55%) HTTP
6 3 (5.66%) Multicast
7 2 (3.77%) FTP
7 2 (3.77%) HTTPS
7 2 (3.77%) LAN
7 2 (3.77%) SSH
7 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) MySQL
2 8 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Git
2 10 (18.87%) GitLab
3 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (5.66%) Vagrant
6 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 29 (54.72%) Finance
2 23 (43.40%) Banking
3 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Front Office
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Administrator
2 13 (24.53%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (22.64%) Linux Administrator
3 12 (22.64%) Senior
4 9 (16.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (15.09%) Network Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Applications Support
6 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior Applications Support
7 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Linux Support
10 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 2 (3.77%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 2 (3.77%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) EDI
2 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.77%) LAMP
2 2 (3.77%) Loki
2 2 (3.77%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.77%) XML
3 1 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Clustering
2 5 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.43%) PKI
3 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.55%) Wiki
4 3 (5.66%) Replication
5 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.77%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Life Science
5 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.77%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 36 (67.92%) Linux
2 19 (35.85%) Windows
3 13 (24.53%) Windows Server
4 12 (22.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (16.98%) CentOS
6 3 (5.66%) Rocky
6 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.66%) VMS
7 2 (3.77%) AIX
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.77%) Unix
8 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (49.06%) DevOps
3 15 (28.30%) Configuration Management
4 13 (24.53%) High Availability
4 13 (24.53%) Incident Management
5 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Cost Optimisation
7 8 (15.09%) ITIL
8 7 (13.21%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (13.21%) Low Latency
8 7 (13.21%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (13.21%) Task Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (9.43%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (9.43%) RBAC
10 5 (9.43%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Python
2 30 (56.60%) Bash
3 12 (22.64%) SQL
4 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.21%) Perl
6 3 (5.66%) Groovy
6 3 (5.66%) Java
6 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.66%) Ruby
6 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.77%) AWK
7 2 (3.77%) C
7 2 (3.77%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) Korn
7 2 (3.77%) PHP
8 1 (1.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) CCNA
1 8 (15.09%) CCNP
1 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) RHCSA
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (30.19%) Docker
3 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
4 9 (16.98%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (13.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (9.43%) BitLocker
6 5 (9.43%) Hyper-V
6 5 (9.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (9.43%) Terminal Services
6 5 (9.43%) vSphere
7 4 (7.55%) Postfix
8 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (3.77%) KVM
9 2 (3.77%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 29 (54.72%) Ansible
2 13 (24.53%) Puppet
3 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
4 9 (16.98%) Graylog
5 8 (15.09%) Terraform
6 7 (13.21%) Grafana
6 7 (13.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (11.32%) Proxmox
8 5 (9.43%) Nessus
8 5 (9.43%) vCenter Server
8 5 (9.43%) vMotion
9 4 (7.55%) Opsgenie
9 4 (7.55%) Rundeck
10 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
10 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (3.77%) Kibana
11 2 (3.77%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) SolarWinds
2 19 (35.85%) VMware
3 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (28.30%) Red Hat
4 9 (16.98%) Citrix
5 8 (15.09%) Cisco
5 8 (15.09%) Google
5 8 (15.09%) Splunk
6 7 (13.21%) Juniper
7 6 (11.32%) IBM
8 5 (9.43%) HP
8 5 (9.43%) Symantec
9 4 (7.55%) NetApp
9 4 (7.55%) PagerDuty
9 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
9 4 (7.55%) Pure Storage
9 4 (7.55%) Rapid7
10 2 (3.77%) Commvault
10 2 (3.77%) Oracle
10 2 (3.77%) Tenable