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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 619 807
Rank change year-on-year -63 +188 -38
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 68 52 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.28% 0.94% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 62 40 72
10th Percentile £53,875 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +12.75% -15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,438 £70,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% +6.38%

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 5,309 5,524 9,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.49% 11.69% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,881 3,264 6,797
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,863 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%

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 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 13 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 3 July 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 62 £72,500 +26.09% 8
London -29 34 £75,000 +36.36% 3
UK excluding London -45 30 £70,000 +21.74% 8
South East -19 13 £70,000 +21.74% 1
South West -61 6 £65,000 - 4
Midlands -21 5 £72,500 +85.90%
North West - 4 £72,500 - 1
North of England - 4 £72,500 - 1
Work from Home -11 3 £40,000 -27.27% 4
West Midlands -23 3 £80,000 +105.13%
East Midlands - 2 £35,000 -
Scotland - 1 £72,500 - 1
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 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) nginx
3 2 (2.94%) IIS
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 10 (14.71%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) AWS
2 23 (33.82%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (16.18%) GCP
4 9 (13.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (13.24%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Stack
6 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.88%) Datadog
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.94%) Serverless
10 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.94%) TCP/IP
2 14 (20.59%) DNS
3 9 (13.24%) BGP
3 9 (13.24%) HTTP
3 9 (13.24%) LAN
3 9 (13.24%) OSPF
3 9 (13.24%) VLAN
4 8 (11.76%) SNMP
5 6 (8.82%) Firewall
5 6 (8.82%) IPFIX
6 4 (5.88%) Multicast
6 4 (5.88%) VPN
7 3 (4.41%) DHCP
8 2 (2.94%) IGMP
8 2 (2.94%) Network Security
8 2 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.94%) SAN
8 2 (2.94%) VXLAN
8 2 (2.94%) WAN
8 2 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) MySQL
2 10 (14.71%) Oracle Database
3 9 (13.24%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.41%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Redis
5 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Git
2 24 (35.29%) GitLab
3 7 (10.29%) JIRA
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 35 (51.47%) Finance
2 33 (48.53%) Social Skills
3 32 (47.06%) Banking
4 21 (30.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (10.29%) Law
7 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.94%) Automotive
8 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Administrator
1 20 (29.41%) Linux Administrator
1 20 (29.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 20 (29.41%) Systems Administrator
2 14 (20.59%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Oracle DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Senior DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Site Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) DevOps Administrator
5 8 (11.76%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Administrator
5 8 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) WebSockets
2 7 (10.29%) ARM Templates
2 7 (10.29%) gRPC
3 4 (5.88%) Node.js
4 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.41%) React
5 2 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.94%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.94%) REST
6 1 (1.47%) CSS
6 1 (1.47%) CSS3
6 1 (1.47%) HTML
6 1 (1.47%) HTML5
6 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 56 (82.35%) Linux
2 28 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (30.88%) Windows
4 19 (27.94%) CentOS
5 16 (23.53%) Windows Server
6 11 (16.18%) Oracle Linux
6 11 (16.18%) Ubuntu
7 10 (14.71%) AIX
7 10 (14.71%) Unix
8 5 (7.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (5.88%) Rocky
10 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) DevOps
2 37 (54.41%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
3 27 (39.71%) Configuration Management
4 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (32.35%) Observability
5 21 (30.88%) Capacity Planning
6 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 18 (26.47%) Runbook
7 17 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (22.06%) High Availability
9 14 (20.59%) Incident Response
9 14 (20.59%) ITIL
9 14 (20.59%) Low Latency
9 14 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (19.12%) Agile
11 11 (16.18%) Customer-Centricity
11 11 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (16.18%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (69.12%) Bash
2 45 (66.18%) Python
3 21 (30.88%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 12 (17.65%) Shell Script
5 10 (14.71%) Korn
5 10 (14.71%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.35%) PHP
7 3 (4.41%) Go
7 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.94%) C
8 2 (2.94%) C++
8 2 (2.94%) Java
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) RHCSA
3 9 (13.24%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.94%) CCNP
6 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) CCIE
7 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) Degree
7 1 (1.47%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) SLA
3 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (41.18%) Docker
2 18 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.71%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) KVM
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (38.24%) Ansible
3 24 (35.29%) Terraform
4 17 (25.00%) Grafana
5 12 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 10 (14.71%) Data Guard
6 10 (14.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (8.82%) ZABBIX
8 5 (7.35%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (7.35%) Podman
9 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (4.41%) Check_MK
10 3 (4.41%) Kibana
11 2 (2.94%) Netcool
11 2 (2.94%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.94%) Tivoli
12 1 (1.47%) Graylog
12 1 (1.47%) Puppet
12 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Splunk
2 21 (30.88%) Red Hat
2 21 (30.88%) VMware
3 20 (29.41%) SolarWinds
4 11 (16.18%) Oracle
5 10 (14.71%) IBM
6 9 (13.24%) Rapid7
7 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
8 5 (7.35%) Cisco
9 4 (5.88%) Commvault
10 3 (4.41%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.94%) Arista
11 2 (2.94%) BMC
11 2 (2.94%) Epicor
11 2 (2.94%) TP-LINK
11 2 (2.94%) Veeam
12 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
12 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.47%) F5
12 1 (1.47%) Zerto