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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 681 629
Rank change year-on-year +62 -52 +319
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 46 65 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.096% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 1.00% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 24 39 79
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,900
25th Percentile £34,188 £45,081 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,625 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £64,500 £86,500 £89,387
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +20.00%

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 4,879 6,503 8,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 9.61% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,224 3,879 6,769
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

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 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 10 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 8 November 2025. 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 +70 46 £45,625 -32.41% 62
UK excluding London +67 26 £51,250 +7.89% 56
London +72 20 £43,750 -44.44% 21
Midlands +73 12 £35,000 -48.15% 3
East Midlands - 9 - - 3
Work from Home +47 7 £43,750 -37.50% 29
South East +27 7 £55,000 +22.27% 29
South West +20 5 - - 4
West Midlands +43 3 £35,000 -48.15%
East of England +27 2 £52,500 -19.23% 9

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 13 (28.26%) SharePoint
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (19.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 14 (30.43%) GCP
5 9 (19.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.70%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) OCI
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (36.96%) Firewall
2 10 (21.74%) DNS
2 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 9 (19.57%) Skype
3 9 (19.57%) VPN
4 8 (17.39%) LAN
4 8 (17.39%) Network Security
4 8 (17.39%) VLAN
5 7 (15.22%) WAN
6 5 (10.87%) BGP
6 5 (10.87%) DHCP
6 5 (10.87%) MPLS
6 5 (10.87%) OSPF
7 4 (8.70%) HTTP
8 3 (6.52%) FTP
8 3 (6.52%) SMTP
9 2 (4.35%) IPv4
9 2 (4.35%) IPv6
9 2 (4.35%) SAN
9 2 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) DTS
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Subversion
3 2 (4.35%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Manufacturing
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Retail
4 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.17%) Law
8 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Support Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Support
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) Network Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) DBA
5 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Support Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Support
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) LDAP
2 3 (6.52%) LAMP
3 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) React
3 1 (2.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Onboarding
2 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
3 12 (26.09%) CMDB
4 9 (19.57%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (8.70%) CCTV
6 3 (6.52%) Clustering
6 3 (6.52%) Replication
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
7 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 20 (43.48%) Linux
3 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.70%) Mac OS
6 4 (8.70%) VMS
7 3 (6.52%) CentOS
7 3 (6.52%) Rocky
7 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.17%) Unix
9 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (32.61%) ITIL
2 15 (32.61%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (28.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (23.91%) Problem Management
5 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
5 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (19.57%) Customer Service
6 9 (19.57%) Server Management
7 8 (17.39%) ITSM
8 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (15.22%) High Availability
9 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
9 6 (13.04%) DevOps
10 5 (10.87%) AI
10 5 (10.87%) Network Design
11 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis
11 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.52%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) Go
6 2 (4.35%) Groovy
6 2 (4.35%) Perl
6 2 (4.35%) Ruby
6 2 (4.35%) SQL
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.17%) PromQL
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.22%) CCNP
4 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 6 (13.04%) CCNA
6 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (8.70%) CCIE
7 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (4.35%) JNCIA
8 2 (4.35%) JNCIS
9 1 (2.17%) CCA
9 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.17%) OCA
9 1 (2.17%) OCP
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
System Software
1 17 (36.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (19.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (8.70%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.35%) Docker
6 2 (4.35%) KVM
6 2 (4.35%) RHEV
6 2 (4.35%) Xen
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) ZABBIX
2 8 (17.39%) SCCM
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.70%) Grafana
5 4 (8.70%) Terraform
5 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.35%) Data Guard
6 2 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.35%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.17%) Kibana
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
1 18 (39.13%) SolarWinds
2 15 (32.61%) VMware
3 14 (30.43%) Cisco
4 12 (26.09%) Fortinet
4 12 (26.09%) Red Hat
5 10 (21.74%) Darktrace
6 9 (19.57%) BMC
6 9 (19.57%) Citrix
6 9 (19.57%) Google
6 9 (19.57%) Proofpoint
6 9 (19.57%) Tanium
6 9 (19.57%) Trend Micro
7 7 (15.22%) F5
7 7 (15.22%) Oracle
8 5 (10.87%) CheckPoint
9 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
9 4 (8.70%) Splunk
9 4 (8.70%) Symantec
10 3 (6.52%) Commvault