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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 626 746
Rank change year-on-year -110 +120 -55
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 66 52 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.10% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.31% 1.03% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 51 36 47
10th Percentile £60,000 £35,500 £34,950
25th Percentile £62,500 £49,688 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +7.84% -18.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £64,500 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -9.91%

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 5,046 5,038 6,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 10.08% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,609 2,947 4,316
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,221
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,754
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +1.21% -4.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.62% -7.17% -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -83 61 £72,500 +31.82% 5
London -37 33 £75,000 +39.53% 2
UK excluding London -85 29 £70,000 +21.74% 3
South East -42 10 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -67 8 £65,000 - 2
East of England - 5 - -
North of England - 4 £72,500 -
North West - 4 £72,500 -
Work from Home -38 2 £40,000 -27.27% 1
West Midlands -35 1 £72,500 +95.95%
Midlands -41 1 £72,500 +95.95%
Scotland - 1 £72,500 -

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 7 (10.61%) nginx
2 5 (7.58%) Apache
2 5 (7.58%) JBoss
3 4 (6.06%) Confluence
4 3 (4.55%) IIS
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 10 (15.15%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) AWS
2 25 (37.88%) Azure
3 14 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (19.70%) GCP
5 11 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
5 11 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 8 (12.12%) Datadog
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Stack
8 3 (4.55%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) Nutanix
9 2 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) TCP/IP
2 10 (15.15%) SSL
3 9 (13.64%) DNS
3 9 (13.64%) VLAN
4 8 (12.12%) BGP
4 8 (12.12%) OSPF
4 8 (12.12%) SNMP
5 7 (10.61%) VPN
6 6 (9.09%) HTTP
6 6 (9.09%) IPFIX
6 6 (9.09%) LAN
7 5 (7.58%) Firewall
7 5 (7.58%) IPsec
8 3 (4.55%) Multicast
9 1 (1.52%) DHCP
9 1 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (1.52%) IGMP
9 1 (1.52%) Network Security
9 1 (1.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) MySQL
2 11 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (15.15%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.55%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (39.39%) Git
2 22 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.06%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) Subversion
5 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.52%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (50.00%) Finance
2 32 (48.48%) Social Skills
3 30 (45.45%) Banking
4 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.61%) Law
6 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Administrator
1 20 (30.30%) Systems Administrator
2 19 (28.79%) Linux Administrator
2 19 (28.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 13 (19.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (19.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Senior
5 11 (16.67%) DBA
5 11 (16.67%) DevOps Administrator
5 11 (16.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Administrator
5 11 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 10 (15.15%) Cloud Administrator
6 10 (15.15%) Oracle DBA
6 10 (15.15%) Senior DBA
6 10 (15.15%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 6 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (37.88%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) gRPC
3 6 (9.09%) WebSockets
4 5 (7.58%) CSS
4 5 (7.58%) CSS3
4 5 (7.58%) HTML
4 5 (7.58%) HTML5
4 5 (7.58%) Keycloak
4 5 (7.58%) OAuth
4 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.58%) OpenID
4 5 (7.58%) React
5 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 3 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.61%) Social Media
3 5 (7.58%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Clustering
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (75.76%) Linux
2 22 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (25.76%) CentOS
4 16 (24.24%) Windows
5 14 (21.21%) Windows Server
6 10 (15.15%) AIX
6 10 (15.15%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (15.15%) Unix
7 7 (10.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (6.06%) Rocky
8 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (48.48%) DevOps
2 27 (40.91%) Configuration Management
3 24 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (34.85%) Capacity Planning
4 23 (34.85%) CI/CD
5 20 (30.30%) High Availability
5 20 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 17 (25.76%) Incident Response
7 17 (25.76%) Observability
7 17 (25.76%) Runbook
7 17 (25.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (22.73%) Agile
8 15 (22.73%) Low Latency
9 14 (21.21%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (19.70%) Software Engineering
11 11 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (16.67%) ITIL
11 11 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 43 (65.15%) Bash
2 42 (63.64%) Python
3 18 (27.27%) SQL
4 10 (15.15%) Korn
4 10 (15.15%) PL/SQL
4 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 10 (15.15%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.06%) PHP
7 2 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) CCNP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) SLA
3 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (36.36%) Docker
2 13 (19.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (15.15%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (7.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) Ansible
2 23 (34.85%) Kubernetes
3 18 (27.27%) Grafana
4 11 (16.67%) Data Guard
5 10 (15.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
7 7 (10.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (7.58%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (7.58%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (7.58%) ZABBIX
9 4 (6.06%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (6.06%) Podman
10 3 (4.55%) Check_MK
11 2 (3.03%) Kibana
11 2 (3.03%) Netcool
11 2 (3.03%) Proxmox
11 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (3.03%) Tivoli
12 1 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) Red Hat
1 25 (37.88%) Splunk
2 15 (22.73%) SolarWinds
2 15 (22.73%) VMware
3 11 (16.67%) Oracle
3 11 (16.67%) Rapid7
4 10 (15.15%) IBM
5 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
5 5 (7.58%) Forcepoint
5 5 (7.58%) McAfee
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.58%) New Relic
5 5 (7.58%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.03%) BMC
6 2 (3.03%) Commvault
6 2 (3.03%) Veeam
7 1 (1.52%) Arista
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco
7 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.52%) Fortinet