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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 750 623 697
Rank change year-on-year -127 +74 -61
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 58 57 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 1.14% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 41
10th Percentile £58,875 £31,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,813 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +7.84% -20.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £64,125 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £44,982
% change year-on-year +13.04% +27.83% -25.03%

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 5,379 4,985 6,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 10.02% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 2,833 3,670
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -136 53 £72,500 +31.82% 29
UK excluding London -139 28 £65,000 +13.04% 10
London -62 26 £75,000 +36.36% 18
South East -53 9 £60,000 +4.35% 2
East of England -35 7 - - 6
South West -73 7 £65,000 - 1
Work from Home -36 3 £42,500 -22.73% 7
North of England - 3 £72,500 - 1
North West - 3 £72,500 - 1
West Midlands -45 1 £72,500 +95.95%
Midlands -58 1 £72,500 +95.95%
Scotland - 1 £72,500 - 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 (8.62%) Apache
1 5 (8.62%) JBoss
1 5 (8.62%) nginx
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 10 (17.24%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 20 (34.48%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (17.24%) OpenShift
5 9 (15.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (15.52%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (15.52%) GCP
6 8 (13.79%) Datadog
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.45%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.14%) TCP/IP
2 12 (20.69%) SSL
3 8 (13.79%) BGP
3 8 (13.79%) OSPF
3 8 (13.79%) SNMP
4 7 (12.07%) HTTP
5 6 (10.34%) DNS
5 6 (10.34%) IPFIX
5 6 (10.34%) VLAN
5 6 (10.34%) VPN
6 5 (8.62%) IPsec
6 5 (8.62%) LAN
7 3 (5.17%) Firewall
8 2 (3.45%) HSRP
8 2 (3.45%) VRRP
9 1 (1.72%) DHCP
9 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) MySQL
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle Database
2 9 (15.52%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.17%) InfluxDB
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Git
1 19 (32.76%) GitLab
2 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.90%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) Subversion
4 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.83%) Finance
3 24 (41.38%) Banking
4 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Law
5 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Administrator
1 15 (25.86%) Systems Administrator
2 14 (24.14%) Linux Administrator
2 14 (24.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 12 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) DBA
5 10 (17.24%) Cloud Administrator
5 10 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (17.24%) Senior
5 10 (17.24%) Senior DBA
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 9 (15.52%) DevOps Administrator
6 9 (15.52%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 9 (15.52%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) IT Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) gRPC
3 5 (8.62%) CSS
3 5 (8.62%) CSS3
3 5 (8.62%) HTML
3 5 (8.62%) HTML5
3 5 (8.62%) Keycloak
3 5 (8.62%) OAuth
3 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
3 5 (8.62%) OpenID
3 5 (8.62%) React
3 5 (8.62%) WebSockets
4 4 (6.90%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.45%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.07%) Social Media
3 5 (8.62%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Linux
2 23 (39.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (24.14%) Windows
4 13 (22.41%) CentOS
5 12 (20.69%) Windows Server
6 10 (17.24%) AIX
6 10 (17.24%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (17.24%) Unix
7 5 (8.62%) Ubuntu
8 4 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.45%) Rocky
10 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) DevOps
2 21 (36.21%) Configuration Management
3 19 (32.76%) Capacity Planning
3 19 (32.76%) High Availability
3 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (31.03%) Runbook
5 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (27.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (25.86%) Incident Response
7 14 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
8 13 (22.41%) Observability
9 12 (20.69%) Agile
10 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (18.97%) ITIL
11 10 (17.24%) Change Management
11 10 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
12 9 (15.52%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 36 (62.07%) Python
2 35 (60.34%) Bash
3 17 (29.31%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) Korn
4 10 (17.24%) PL/SQL
4 10 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.90%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) RHCSA
4 2 (3.45%) CCNA
4 2 (3.45%) CCNP
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) SLA
3 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) Docker
2 10 (17.24%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (31.03%) Ansible
2 17 (29.31%) Grafana
2 17 (29.31%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.97%) Data Guard
4 10 (17.24%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (15.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (10.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (8.62%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (8.62%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (8.62%) ZABBIX
8 4 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (6.90%) Podman
9 2 (3.45%) Check_MK
9 2 (3.45%) Netcool
9 2 (3.45%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.72%) Kibana
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (34.48%) Red Hat
1 20 (34.48%) Splunk
2 13 (22.41%) SolarWinds
3 11 (18.97%) Oracle
3 11 (18.97%) VMware
4 10 (17.24%) IBM
5 9 (15.52%) Rapid7
6 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
6 5 (8.62%) Forcepoint
6 5 (8.62%) McAfee
6 5 (8.62%) New Relic
6 5 (8.62%) Zscaler
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.45%) BMC
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco
9 1 (1.72%) Commvault
9 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace