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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 638 654
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 +188
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 50 55 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.18% 0.94% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 29 34 83
10th Percentile £31,250 £43,911 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £76,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +22.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,250 £79,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +7.84% -15.00%

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 4,234 5,874 8,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.80% 11.05% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 3,573 6,533
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,600
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

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 January 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 January 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 +55 48 £55,000 -27.87% 17
UK excluding London +40 34 £56,250 +2.27% 18
London +35 16 £43,750 -45.31% 4
Midlands +36 14 £35,000 -48.15% 2
East Midlands - 9 £35,000 -
Work from Home +57 8 £43,750 -37.50% 5
South West +5 8 - - 3
South East +18 7 £55,000 +46.70% 8
West Midlands +27 5 £67,500 - 2
North West +16 3 £60,000 -4.00%
North of England +11 3 £60,000 -4.00%
East of England +20 2 £52,500 -41.67% 3

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 11 (22.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (14.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (26.00%) Azure
4 12 (24.00%) GCP
5 7 (14.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.00%) Datadog
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) Firewall
2 12 (24.00%) DNS
2 12 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (20.00%) Network Security
4 9 (18.00%) VPN
4 9 (18.00%) WAN
5 8 (16.00%) LAN
5 8 (16.00%) VLAN
6 7 (14.00%) DHCP
6 7 (14.00%) Skype
7 4 (8.00%) HTTP
8 3 (6.00%) BGP
8 3 (6.00%) FTP
8 3 (6.00%) IGMP
8 3 (6.00%) Multicast
8 3 (6.00%) OSPF
8 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
8 3 (6.00%) SMTP
8 3 (6.00%) SSL
8 3 (6.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) DTS
1 7 (14.00%) MySQL
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.00%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) GitLab
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.00%) Subversion
4 2 (4.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 11 (22.00%) Finance
4 9 (18.00%) Banking
5 7 (14.00%) Retail
6 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (8.00%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (4.00%) Automotive
9 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Support Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Network Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Support Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) DBA
7 3 (6.00%) Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) Linux Support
7 3 (6.00%) Linux Support Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) LDAP
2 3 (6.00%) LAMP
2 3 (6.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) CSS3
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) HTML5
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Onboarding
2 12 (24.00%) CMDB
3 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (14.00%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (8.00%) CCTV
6 3 (6.00%) Clustering
6 3 (6.00%) Replication
7 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
8 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.00%) Video on Demand
8 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (56.00%) Windows
2 27 (54.00%) Linux
3 11 (22.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (12.00%) CentOS
6 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (10.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (8.00%) Mac OS
8 3 (6.00%) Rocky
9 2 (4.00%) VMS
10 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) ITIL
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (22.00%) ITSM
4 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (18.00%) DevOps
5 9 (18.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
7 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.00%) Network Design
7 7 (14.00%) Problem Management
7 7 (14.00%) Server Management
8 6 (12.00%) Asset Management
8 6 (12.00%) Low Latency
8 6 (12.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.00%) C
6 2 (4.00%) C#
6 2 (4.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) CCIE
4 6 (12.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.00%) CCNA
6 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.00%) JNCIA
6 2 (4.00%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.00%) CCA
7 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (12.00%) Docker
4 4 (8.00%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.00%) KVM
5 2 (4.00%) RHEV
5 2 (4.00%) Xen
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) ZABBIX
2 10 (20.00%) Ansible
3 9 (18.00%) Terraform
4 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (16.00%) SCCM
5 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (8.00%) Grafana
6 4 (8.00%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.00%) Data Guard
7 2 (4.00%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.00%) Argo
8 1 (2.00%) Check_MK
8 1 (2.00%) Icinga
8 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Cisco
2 17 (34.00%) Fortinet
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (34.00%) SolarWinds
3 15 (30.00%) VMware
4 12 (24.00%) Red Hat
5 9 (18.00%) F5
6 8 (16.00%) Darktrace
7 7 (14.00%) BMC
7 7 (14.00%) CheckPoint
7 7 (14.00%) Citrix
7 7 (14.00%) Google
7 7 (14.00%) Proofpoint
7 7 (14.00%) Tanium
7 7 (14.00%) Trend Micro
8 6 (12.00%) Splunk
9 5 (10.00%) Oracle
10 4 (8.00%) Arista
10 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (8.00%) Symantec