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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 600 783
Rank change year-on-year -65 +183 +16
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 66 56 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.41% 1.09% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 77
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +12.75% -15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% +11.11%

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 4,691 5,118 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.08% 11.92% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 3,087 7,064
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +12.73% -9.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -58 60 £72,500 +18.37% 20
UK excluding London -28 32 £70,000 +21.74% 15
London -41 30 £75,000 +1.69% 5
South East -30 11 £70,000 +21.74% 3
North West +2 7 £65,000 - 3
North of England -30 7 £65,000 - 5
Midlands -35 6 £70,000 +79.49% 1
South West -54 6 £65,000 - 5
Work from Home +3 4 £40,000 -52.94% 10
West Midlands -26 4 £76,250 +95.51% 1
East Midlands - 2 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 4 (6.06%) nginx
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) IIS
3 2 (3.03%) JBoss
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.91%) AWS
2 21 (31.82%) Azure
3 11 (16.67%) GCP
4 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (9.09%) Datadog
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Stack
8 3 (4.55%) Cloudflare
8 3 (4.55%) Serverless
9 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.03%) Nutanix
9 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.52%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.52%) GitHub
10 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (30.30%) TCP/IP
2 15 (22.73%) DNS
3 12 (18.18%) BGP
3 12 (18.18%) OSPF
4 11 (16.67%) Firewall
5 10 (15.15%) HTTP
5 10 (15.15%) LAN
6 9 (13.64%) VLAN
7 7 (10.61%) Multicast
7 7 (10.61%) SNMP
7 7 (10.61%) VPN
8 6 (9.09%) IPFIX
9 5 (7.58%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (7.58%) IGMP
9 5 (7.58%) VXLAN
10 3 (4.55%) DHCP
11 2 (3.03%) Network Security
11 2 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
11 2 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) MySQL
2 7 (10.61%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.06%) InfluxDB
4 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.55%) Redis
5 3 (4.55%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (40.91%) Git
2 20 (30.30%) GitLab
3 5 (7.58%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (46.97%) Finance
2 28 (42.42%) Banking
2 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
3 23 (34.85%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (10.61%) Law
6 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Automotive
7 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Administrator
2 19 (28.79%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 18 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
4 12 (18.18%) Senior
5 11 (16.67%) Network Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) Site Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) DBA
8 6 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (7.58%) Developer
9 5 (7.58%) DevOps Administrator
9 5 (7.58%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Senior DBA
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) WebSockets
2 7 (10.61%) gRPC
3 5 (7.58%) ARM Templates
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
3 5 (7.58%) React
4 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.03%) CSS
5 2 (3.03%) CSS3
5 2 (3.03%) HTML
5 2 (3.03%) HTML5
5 2 (3.03%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (3.03%) OAuth
5 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.03%) OpenID
5 2 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) CMDB
4 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) Clustering
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (77.27%) Linux
2 24 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (28.79%) Windows
4 16 (24.24%) CentOS
5 14 (21.21%) Windows Server
6 9 (13.64%) Ubuntu
7 6 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (7.58%) AIX
8 5 (7.58%) Unix
9 4 (6.06%) Rocky
10 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (56.06%) DevOps
3 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 22 (33.33%) Observability
5 21 (31.82%) Configuration Management
6 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (24.24%) Containerisation
8 15 (22.73%) Low Latency
9 14 (21.21%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (21.21%) Customer-Centricity
10 13 (19.70%) Network Monitoring
10 13 (19.70%) Runbook
11 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (16.67%) Agile
12 11 (16.67%) High Availability
13 10 (15.15%) ITIL
13 10 (15.15%) Performance Monitoring
14 9 (13.64%) Incident Response
14 9 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (65.15%) Python
2 38 (57.58%) Bash
3 17 (25.76%) SQL
4 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.12%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.58%) Korn
6 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.55%) C
8 3 (4.55%) C++
8 3 (4.55%) Java
8 3 (4.55%) PHP
8 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) RHCSA
3 7 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.58%) CCNP
5 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.03%) CCIE
6 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) SLA
3 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (37.88%) Docker
2 21 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) KVM
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) Kubernetes
2 24 (36.36%) Ansible
3 22 (33.33%) Terraform
4 16 (24.24%) Grafana
5 13 (19.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (9.09%) Data Guard
7 5 (7.58%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (7.58%) ZABBIX
8 4 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (4.55%) Podman
10 2 (3.03%) Check_MK
10 2 (3.03%) Kibana
10 2 (3.03%) Proxmox
10 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.52%) Argo
11 1 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.52%) Graylog
11 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) SolarWinds
1 23 (34.85%) VMware
2 22 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 19 (28.79%) Splunk
4 9 (13.64%) Cisco
5 7 (10.61%) Fortinet
5 7 (10.61%) Oracle
5 7 (10.61%) Rapid7
6 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.58%) Arista
7 5 (7.58%) IBM
8 3 (4.55%) Commvault
9 2 (3.03%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.03%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.03%) Epicor
9 2 (3.03%) F5
9 2 (3.03%) New Relic
9 2 (3.03%) TP-LINK
9 2 (3.03%) Veeam
10 1 (1.52%) Zerto