Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Nagios skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Nagios over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 799 769
Rank change year-on-year +128 -30 +233
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 54 101 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.092% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 1.03% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 42 78 90
10th Percentile £40,500 £34,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £50,313 £42,500 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +6.38% +6.82%

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 5,869 9,833 13,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 8.92% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,178 6,895 8,536
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,619 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -2.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +6.48% -9.28% +2.86%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Nagios.

Salary trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 8 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 24 June 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 +124 53 £57,500 +12.75% 77
London +124 39 £55,000 -31.25% 50
Work from Home +92 15 £70,000 - 35
UK excluding London +125 13 £57,500 +15.00% 37
South East +79 7 £57,500 +50.23% 7
Midlands +80 4 £39,000 - 3
West Midlands +74 4 £39,000 - 2
South West +78 2 - - 5

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.56%) nginx
2 3 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 31 (57.41%) AWS
2 27 (50.00%) Azure
3 23 (42.59%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.41%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) AWS KMS
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (51.85%) Firewall
2 16 (29.63%) VPN
3 13 (24.07%) BGP
3 13 (24.07%) DNS
3 13 (24.07%) MPLS
3 13 (24.07%) OSPF
4 7 (12.96%) DHCP
5 6 (11.11%) Network Security
5 6 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (11.11%) SMTP
6 5 (9.26%) VLAN
7 4 (7.41%) LAN
7 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
8 3 (5.56%) HTTP
8 3 (5.56%) Multicast
8 3 (5.56%) SSL
9 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (3.70%) SAN
10 1 (1.85%) WAN
10 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (5.56%) GitLab
3 3 (5.56%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (59.26%) Finance
2 25 (46.30%) Banking
3 12 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 5 (9.26%) Front Office
8 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Administrator
1 14 (25.93%) Linux Administrator
2 13 (24.07%) Network Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) Senior
4 10 (18.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 10 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Applications Support
5 7 (12.96%) Senior Applications Support
5 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Linux Support
9 3 (5.56%) Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 2 (3.70%) Support Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Node.js
2 3 (5.56%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (5.56%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.85%) Kafka
3 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.11%) Clustering
2 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (11.11%) PKI
3 3 (5.56%) Wiki
4 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.85%) Derivative
5 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Linux
2 14 (25.93%) Windows
3 12 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.26%) VMS
5 4 (7.41%) CentOS
6 3 (5.56%) Rocky
6 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (40.74%) DevOps
3 20 (37.04%) High Availability
4 18 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 16 (29.63%) ITIL
6 15 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (24.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 9 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.96%) Customer-Centricity
12 6 (11.11%) Application Virtualisation
12 6 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
12 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) RBAC
12 6 (11.11%) Task Automation
13 5 (9.26%) Capacity Planning
13 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
14 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) Python
2 28 (51.85%) Bash
3 13 (24.07%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.26%) Perl
6 4 (7.41%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) Groovy
7 3 (5.56%) Ruby
7 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.70%) Go
9 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) CCNA
1 12 (22.22%) CCNP
1 12 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.96%) RHCSA
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.70%) Degree
6 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.56%) QA
1 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (24.07%) Docker
3 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (11.11%) BitLocker
4 6 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 6 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (11.11%) Terminal Services
4 6 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (11.11%) vSphere
5 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Ansible
2 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.67%) Puppet
4 7 (12.96%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.11%) Proxmox
5 6 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 6 (11.11%) vMotion
6 5 (9.26%) Terraform
7 4 (7.41%) Grafana
8 3 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.56%) Graylog
8 3 (5.56%) Kibana
8 3 (5.56%) Nessus
8 3 (5.56%) Opsgenie
8 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (3.70%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (53.70%) SolarWinds
2 20 (37.04%) VMware
3 13 (24.07%) Red Hat
4 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 7 (12.96%) Google
6 6 (11.11%) Citrix
6 6 (11.11%) HP
6 6 (11.11%) Symantec
7 5 (9.26%) Cisco
7 5 (9.26%) Commvault
8 4 (7.41%) IBM
8 4 (7.41%) Splunk
9 3 (5.56%) Juniper
9 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
10 2 (3.70%) EMC
10 2 (3.70%) Oracle
10 2 (3.70%) Zerto
11 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.85%) Meraki
11 1 (1.85%) Veeam