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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 623 698
Rank change year-on-year -18 +75 +148
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 52 58 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.18% 1.04% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 36 90
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £66,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +35.02% -1.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -4.76%

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 4,396 5,578 8,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.35% 11.79% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,041 3,490 6,989
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.65%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +7 49 £60,000 -25.00% 20
UK excluding London +7 32 £62,500 -3.85% 18
London +9 18 £57,500 -29.23% 3
Work from Home +32 9 £43,750 -45.31% 6
South East -9 9 £71,250 +137.50% 7
Midlands +3 8 £51,250 -24.07% 2
South West -14 8 - - 5
East Midlands - 6 £35,000 -
North West +6 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
North of England -16 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands +10 2 £73,750 +9.26% 2
East of England +6 2 £52,500 -41.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 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 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.69%) Skype for Business
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) JBoss
3 2 (3.85%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (19.23%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Stack
6 3 (5.77%) Datadog
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub
7 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.85%) Serverless
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) Firewall
2 10 (19.23%) TCP/IP
3 9 (17.31%) DNS
3 9 (17.31%) Network Security
3 9 (17.31%) VPN
4 7 (13.46%) VLAN
5 6 (11.54%) LAN
6 5 (9.62%) WAN
7 4 (7.69%) BGP
7 4 (7.69%) DHCP
7 4 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (7.69%) HTTP
7 4 (7.69%) IGMP
7 4 (7.69%) Multicast
7 4 (7.69%) OSPF
7 4 (7.69%) Skype
7 4 (7.69%) SSL
7 4 (7.69%) VXLAN
8 2 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) MySQL
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.69%) DTS
3 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Redis
5 2 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) GitLab
3 7 (13.46%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Subversion
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Banking
4 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (23.08%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Automotive
7 2 (3.85%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Network Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Administrator
6 5 (9.62%) DBA
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (9.62%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Site Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 4 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) LDAP
2 4 (7.69%) React
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.77%) LAMP
3 3 (5.77%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.85%) CSS
4 2 (3.85%) CSS3
4 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.85%) HTML
4 2 (3.85%) HTML5
4 2 (3.85%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.85%) Node.js
4 2 (3.85%) OAuth
4 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.85%) OpenID
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Data Centre
1 14 (26.92%) Onboarding
2 9 (17.31%) CMDB
3 4 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.85%) CCTV
4 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (69.23%) Linux
2 24 (46.15%) Windows
3 13 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (21.15%) Windows Server
5 10 (19.23%) CentOS
6 8 (15.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (7.69%) Mac OS
7 4 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (5.77%) AIX
8 3 (5.77%) Rocky
8 3 (5.77%) Unix
9 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) ITIL
3 14 (26.92%) DevOps
4 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 11 (21.15%) Configuration Management
5 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (21.15%) ITSM
6 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (17.31%) Observability
8 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (13.46%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
9 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (13.46%) Low Latency
9 7 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (11.54%) Asset Management
10 6 (11.54%) High Availability
10 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Bash
3 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 8 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 7 (13.46%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) Korn
5 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.85%) C
6 2 (3.85%) C++
6 2 (3.85%) Go
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 5 (9.62%) CCIE
5 5 (9.62%) CCNP
6 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.77%) RHCSA
8 2 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.92%) CCNA
9 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.92%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (21.15%) Docker
3 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (3.85%) BitLocker
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.92%) KVM
7 1 (1.92%) RHEV
7 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Ansible
2 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.23%) Terraform
4 8 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 8 (15.38%) ZABBIX
5 6 (11.54%) SCCM
6 5 (9.62%) Data Guard
6 5 (9.62%) Grafana
7 4 (7.69%) vCenter Server
8 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (5.77%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.92%) Argo
10 1 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.92%) Graylog
10 1 (1.92%) Kibana
10 1 (1.92%) Podman
10 1 (1.92%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Cisco
1 16 (30.77%) VMware
2 15 (28.85%) Fortinet
3 14 (26.92%) SolarWinds
4 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 11 (21.15%) Splunk
6 8 (15.38%) F5
7 7 (13.46%) CheckPoint
8 6 (11.54%) Oracle
9 5 (9.62%) Darktrace
10 4 (7.69%) Arista
10 4 (7.69%) BMC
10 4 (7.69%) Citrix
10 4 (7.69%) Google
10 4 (7.69%) Proofpoint
10 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
10 4 (7.69%) Tanium
10 4 (7.69%) Trend Micro
11 3 (5.77%) IBM