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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 640 675
Rank change year-on-year +56 +35 +160
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 51 53 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 0.91% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 87
10th Percentile £31,250 £44,145 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,094 £63,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +26.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,563 £87,188 £79,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £65,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +27.45% -5.12%

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 4,236 5,817 8,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.74% 11.13% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,946 3,516 6,806
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £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% -2.96%

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 27 January 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 27 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 +45 48 £56,250 -28.57% 14
UK excluding London +49 34 £56,250 -13.46% 16
London +51 17 £50,625 -36.72% 2
Midlands +19 13 £35,000 -48.15% 2
Work from Home +59 8 £43,750 -37.50% 7
South West 0 8 - - 3
East Midlands - 8 £35,000 -
South East +12 7 £55,000 +83.33% 6
West Midlands +30 5 £67,500 - 2
North West +25 3 £60,000 -4.00% 1
North of England +15 3 £60,000 -4.00% 1
East of England +21 2 £52,500 -41.67% 2
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 10 (19.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.76%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
2 16 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (23.53%) Azure
4 11 (21.57%) GCP
5 6 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.84%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.92%) Datadog
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) Serverless
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (35.29%) Firewall
2 12 (23.53%) DNS
2 12 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 10 (19.61%) Network Security
4 9 (17.65%) VPN
4 9 (17.65%) WAN
5 8 (15.69%) LAN
5 8 (15.69%) VLAN
6 7 (13.73%) DHCP
7 6 (11.76%) Skype
8 4 (7.84%) HTTP
9 3 (5.88%) BGP
9 3 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (5.88%) FTP
9 3 (5.88%) IGMP
9 3 (5.88%) Multicast
9 3 (5.88%) OSPF
9 3 (5.88%) SD-WAN
9 3 (5.88%) SSL
9 3 (5.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) MySQL
2 6 (11.76%) DTS
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.92%) Redis
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.96%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) GitLab
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) Subversion
4 2 (3.92%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Manufacturing
3 12 (23.53%) Finance
4 10 (19.61%) Banking
5 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Retail
6 4 (7.84%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Automotive
8 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Administrator
5 5 (9.80%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) DBA
6 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 4 (7.84%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Support Specialist
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Linux Support
7 3 (5.88%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) LDAP
2 3 (5.88%) LAMP
2 3 (5.88%) React
3 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) CSS3
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (1.96%) HTML5
4 1 (1.96%) Kafka
4 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.96%) OAuth
4 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.96%) OpenID
4 1 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (1.96%) RESTful
4 1 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 12 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 11 (21.57%) CMDB
4 6 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (7.84%) CCTV
6 3 (5.88%) Clustering
6 3 (5.88%) Replication
7 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.96%) Video on Demand
8 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (56.86%) Linux
2 27 (52.94%) Windows
3 10 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.76%) CentOS
5 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (9.80%) Ubuntu
7 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
8 3 (5.88%) Rocky
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.92%) VMS
10 1 (1.96%) AIX
10 1 (1.96%) Unix
10 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (27.45%) ITIL
3 12 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (21.57%) ITSM
5 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 9 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (17.65%) DevOps
7 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management
7 8 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
8 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (13.73%) Network Design
8 7 (13.73%) Problem Management
9 6 (11.76%) Asset Management
9 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
9 6 (11.76%) Low Latency
9 6 (11.76%) Server Management
9 6 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) Bash
2 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.80%) Java
5 3 (5.88%) SQL
6 2 (3.92%) C
6 2 (3.92%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) C++
6 2 (3.92%) Go
6 2 (3.92%) Groovy
6 2 (3.92%) Perl
6 2 (3.92%) Ruby
6 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.96%) Korn
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (21.57%) Degree
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) CCIE
3 6 (11.76%) CCNP
4 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.92%) CCNA
6 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.92%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.92%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.96%) CCA
7 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) QA
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (11.76%) Docker
5 4 (7.84%) BitLocker
6 2 (3.92%) KVM
6 2 (3.92%) RHEV
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.92%) Xen
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Ansible
1 11 (21.57%) ZABBIX
2 9 (17.65%) Terraform
3 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Prometheus
3 8 (15.69%) SCCM
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.84%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.88%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.96%) Argo
8 1 (1.96%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.96%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.96%) Graylog
8 1 (1.96%) Icinga
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (39.22%) Cisco
2 17 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 16 (31.37%) SolarWinds
4 15 (29.41%) VMware
5 11 (21.57%) Red Hat
6 9 (17.65%) F5
7 7 (13.73%) CheckPoint
7 7 (13.73%) Darktrace
7 7 (13.73%) Oracle
8 6 (11.76%) BMC
8 6 (11.76%) Citrix
8 6 (11.76%) Google
8 6 (11.76%) Proofpoint
8 6 (11.76%) Splunk
8 6 (11.76%) Tanium
8 6 (11.76%) Trend Micro
9 4 (7.84%) Arista
9 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
9 4 (7.84%) Symantec