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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 628 792
Rank change year-on-year -65 +164 -49
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 69 52 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.26% 0.93% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 63 39 65
10th Percentile £55,250 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +12.75% -15.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +13.86% +6.32%

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 5,496 5,605 8,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 11.41% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,056 3,339 6,401
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,559 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -67 63 £72,500 +26.09% 5
London -22 37 £75,000 +36.36% 1
UK excluding London -56 28 £70,000 +21.74% 6
South East -18 12 £67,500 +17.39% 1
South West -48 6 £65,000 - 2
Midlands -31 4 £76,250 +95.51%
North West - 4 £72,500 - 1
North of England - 4 £72,500 - 1
West Midlands -20 3 £80,000 +105.13%
Work from Home -31 3 £40,000 -27.27% 3
East Midlands -13 1 £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 5 (7.25%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) nginx
3 2 (2.90%) IIS
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 12 (17.39%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.68%) AWS
2 23 (33.33%) Azure
3 12 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (17.39%) GCP
4 10 (14.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (14.49%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Stack
5 7 (10.14%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.80%) Datadog
7 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.90%) Serverless
9 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.09%) TCP/IP
2 13 (18.84%) DNS
3 9 (13.04%) BGP
3 9 (13.04%) HTTP
3 9 (13.04%) LAN
3 9 (13.04%) OSPF
3 9 (13.04%) VLAN
4 8 (11.59%) SNMP
5 6 (8.70%) Firewall
5 6 (8.70%) IPFIX
6 4 (5.80%) Multicast
7 3 (4.35%) VPN
8 2 (2.90%) DHCP
8 2 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (2.90%) IGMP
8 2 (2.90%) Network Security
8 2 (2.90%) SAN
8 2 (2.90%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) MySQL
1 12 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 10 (14.49%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Redis
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (39.13%) Git
2 25 (36.23%) GitLab
3 7 (10.14%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 38 (55.07%) Finance
2 36 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 35 (50.72%) Banking
4 21 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (10.14%) Law
7 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.45%) Automotive
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Administrator
1 21 (30.43%) Linux Administrator
1 21 (30.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 21 (30.43%) Systems Administrator
2 16 (23.19%) Senior
3 13 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.39%) DBA
4 12 (17.39%) Oracle DBA
4 12 (17.39%) Senior DBA
4 12 (17.39%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 11 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) DevOps Administrator
6 9 (13.04%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 9 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 9 (13.04%) Site Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) WebSockets
2 7 (10.14%) ARM Templates
2 7 (10.14%) gRPC
3 4 (5.80%) Node.js
4 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.35%) React
5 2 (2.90%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.90%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.90%) REST
6 1 (1.45%) CSS
6 1 (1.45%) CSS3
6 1 (1.45%) HTML
6 1 (1.45%) HTML5
6 1 (1.45%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.45%) OAuth
6 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) CMDB
4 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 58 (84.06%) Linux
2 30 (43.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (28.99%) CentOS
4 19 (27.54%) Windows
5 15 (21.74%) Windows Server
6 13 (18.84%) Oracle Linux
7 12 (17.39%) AIX
7 12 (17.39%) Unix
8 10 (14.49%) Ubuntu
9 5 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (5.80%) Rocky
11 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (56.52%) DevOps
2 35 (50.72%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (42.03%) Configuration Management
4 27 (39.13%) CI/CD
5 24 (34.78%) Capacity Planning
6 22 (31.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (30.43%) Observability
8 20 (28.99%) Runbook
9 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (26.09%) Containerisation
11 17 (24.64%) High Availability
12 16 (23.19%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (21.74%) Incident Response
13 15 (21.74%) ITIL
13 15 (21.74%) Low Latency
14 13 (18.84%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (17.39%) Agile
15 12 (17.39%) Change Management
15 12 (17.39%) Software Engineering
16 11 (15.94%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 49 (71.01%) Bash
2 45 (65.22%) Python
3 23 (33.33%) SQL
4 14 (20.29%) Shell Script
5 12 (17.39%) Korn
5 12 (17.39%) PL/SQL
6 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.25%) PHP
8 3 (4.35%) Go
8 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.90%) C
9 2 (2.90%) C++
9 2 (2.90%) Java
9 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.49%) RHCSA
3 9 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.90%) CCNP
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.45%) CCIE
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 7 (10.14%) SLA
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (40.58%) Docker
2 18 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (17.39%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.45%) KVM
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (40.58%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.68%) Ansible
3 24 (34.78%) Terraform
4 18 (26.09%) Grafana
5 12 (17.39%) Data Guard
5 12 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
5 12 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.70%) ZABBIX
7 5 (7.25%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (7.25%) Podman
8 4 (5.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (4.35%) Check_MK
9 3 (4.35%) Kibana
10 2 (2.90%) Netcool
10 2 (2.90%) Proxmox
10 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
11 1 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.45%) Puppet
11 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Splunk
2 22 (31.88%) Red Hat
3 21 (30.43%) VMware
4 19 (27.54%) SolarWinds
5 13 (18.84%) Oracle
6 12 (17.39%) IBM
7 10 (14.49%) Rapid7
8 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
9 4 (5.80%) Cisco
9 4 (5.80%) Commvault
10 3 (4.35%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.90%) Arista
11 2 (2.90%) BMC
11 2 (2.90%) Veeam
12 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
12 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.45%) Epicor
12 1 (1.45%) F5
12 1 (1.45%) TP-LINK
12 1 (1.45%) Zerto