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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 683 629
Rank change year-on-year +81 -54 +329
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 50 67 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.097% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.01% 1.01% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 29 40 84
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £38,225
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,911 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,750 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -17.86% +14.03%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £64,500 £86,375 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £44,982 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.27% -25.03% +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 4,936 6,608 8,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.05% 9.57% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 3,974 6,904
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,375 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.17% - +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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +82 49 £55,000 +6.28% 30
UK excluding London +62 28 £55,000 +22.27% 29
London +61 21 £55,000 -26.67% 6
Midlands +39 13 £37,000 - 4
South East +19 9 £57,500 +27.83% 11
East Midlands - 9 - - 2
Work from Home +43 6 £53,750 -23.21% 33
West Midlands +50 4 £37,000 -
South West +35 4 - - 1
East of England - 2 £52,500 - 8

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 (26.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (18.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 18 (36.00%) GCP
4 16 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (18.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.00%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.00%) OCI
9 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.00%) Firewall
2 16 (32.00%) DNS
3 13 (26.00%) TCP/IP
4 11 (22.00%) LAN
5 10 (20.00%) Network Security
5 10 (20.00%) VPN
6 9 (18.00%) DHCP
6 9 (18.00%) Skype
7 8 (16.00%) WAN
8 7 (14.00%) MPLS
8 7 (14.00%) VLAN
9 6 (12.00%) BGP
9 6 (12.00%) HTTP
9 6 (12.00%) OSPF
9 6 (12.00%) SMTP
10 3 (6.00%) FTP
10 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (4.00%) IPsec
11 2 (4.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) DTS
2 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Subversion
3 2 (4.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 14 (28.00%) Finance
4 13 (26.00%) Banking
5 9 (18.00%) Retail
6 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (8.00%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Law
10 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Support Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Network Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.00%) DBA
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Support Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Design Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Network Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) LDAP
2 3 (6.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.00%) Onboarding
2 12 (24.00%) CMDB
2 12 (24.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (18.00%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (10.00%) Clustering
5 4 (8.00%) CCTV
6 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (6.00%) PKI
7 2 (4.00%) Replication
8 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
8 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Windows
2 22 (44.00%) Linux
3 15 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (18.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (8.00%) VMS
6 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.00%) CentOS
8 1 (2.00%) Unix
8 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.00%) ITIL
2 16 (32.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (22.00%) High Availability
4 11 (22.00%) Problem Management
5 9 (18.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
5 9 (18.00%) DevOps
5 9 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (18.00%) Server Management
6 8 (16.00%) Incident Management
7 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.00%) ITSM
8 6 (12.00%) AI
8 6 (12.00%) Data Protection
8 6 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (12.00%) Task Automation
9 5 (10.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) Bash
2 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) Go
5 2 (4.00%) Groovy
5 2 (4.00%) Perl
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.00%) PromQL
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) Degree
3 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (16.00%) CCNP
5 7 (14.00%) CCNA
5 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (8.00%) CCIE
7 4 (8.00%) RHCSA
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (4.00%) JNCIA
8 2 (4.00%) JNCIS
9 1 (2.00%) CCA
9 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.00%) OCA
9 1 (2.00%) OCP
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (34.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (18.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (14.00%) BitLocker
5 5 (10.00%) Docker
6 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (6.00%) Terminal Services
6 3 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (6.00%) vSphere
7 2 (4.00%) KVM
7 2 (4.00%) RHEV
7 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (4.00%) Xen
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) ZABBIX
2 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
2 7 (14.00%) SCCM
3 6 (12.00%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (8.00%) Grafana
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.00%) Terraform
6 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) vMotion
7 2 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (4.00%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.00%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.00%) Kibana
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) SolarWinds
2 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (40.00%) VMware
3 16 (32.00%) Red Hat
4 15 (30.00%) Cisco
5 12 (24.00%) Citrix
5 12 (24.00%) Fortinet
5 12 (24.00%) Google
6 10 (20.00%) Darktrace
7 9 (18.00%) BMC
7 9 (18.00%) Proofpoint
7 9 (18.00%) Tanium
7 9 (18.00%) Trend Micro
8 7 (14.00%) F5
8 7 (14.00%) Symantec
9 6 (12.00%) Oracle
10 5 (10.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (8.00%) Splunk
12 3 (6.00%) Commvault
12 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow