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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 625 745
Rank change year-on-year -72 +120 +8
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 76 54 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.11% 0.083%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.32% 0.96% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 64 39 54
10th Percentile £55,375 £44,000 £36,275
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +12.75% -18.40%
75th Percentile £79,375 £66,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -3.38%

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 5,761 5,603 7,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 11.34% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,214 3,335 5,514
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £34,575
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,870 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% +4.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 12 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 31 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 -64 71 £72,500 +26.09% 4
London -32 41 £75,000 +36.36% 2
UK excluding London -61 31 £70,000 +21.74% 3
South East -30 13 £70,000 +21.74% 1
South West -57 8 £65,000 - 1
North of England - 5 £72,500 -
North West - 5 £72,500 -
Work from Home -29 3 £40,000 -27.27% 1
West Midlands -24 2 £76,250 +95.51%
Midlands -47 2 £76,250 +95.51%
East of England - 2 - -
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 8 (10.53%) nginx
2 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 6 (7.89%) JBoss
3 5 (6.58%) Confluence
4 3 (3.95%) IIS
5 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 12 (15.79%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.74%) AWS
2 30 (39.47%) Azure
3 14 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (17.11%) GCP
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon ECR
6 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
7 9 (11.84%) Datadog
8 7 (9.21%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.95%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.63%) SaaS
11 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.68%) TCP/IP
2 13 (17.11%) DNS
3 9 (11.84%) BGP
3 9 (11.84%) HTTP
3 9 (11.84%) LAN
3 9 (11.84%) OSPF
3 9 (11.84%) VLAN
4 8 (10.53%) SNMP
4 8 (10.53%) SSL
5 7 (9.21%) Firewall
6 6 (7.89%) IPFIX
7 5 (6.58%) VPN
8 4 (5.26%) Multicast
9 2 (2.63%) DHCP
9 2 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (2.63%) IGMP
9 2 (2.63%) IPsec
9 2 (2.63%) VXLAN
10 1 (1.32%) NAS
10 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) MySQL
2 12 (15.79%) Oracle Database
3 11 (14.47%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Redis
7 1 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 34 (44.74%) Git
2 26 (34.21%) GitLab
3 7 (9.21%) JIRA
4 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
5 5 (6.58%) Subversion
6 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 39 (51.32%) Finance
3 36 (47.37%) Banking
4 22 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Law
7 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
8 5 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Administrator
1 24 (31.58%) Systems Administrator
2 23 (30.26%) Linux Administrator
2 23 (30.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 15 (19.74%) Senior
4 14 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (17.11%) DBA
6 12 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (15.79%) Oracle DBA
6 12 (15.79%) Senior DBA
6 12 (15.79%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 11 (14.47%) DevOps Administrator
7 11 (14.47%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 11 (14.47%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 11 (14.47%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 11 (14.47%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (14.47%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 11 (14.47%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 9 (11.84%) Cloud Administrator
8 9 (11.84%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) WebSockets
2 7 (9.21%) ARM Templates
2 7 (9.21%) gRPC
2 7 (9.21%) React
3 6 (7.89%) CSS
3 6 (7.89%) CSS3
3 6 (7.89%) HTML
3 6 (7.89%) HTML5
3 6 (7.89%) Keycloak
3 6 (7.89%) OAuth
3 6 (7.89%) OAuth2
3 6 (7.89%) OpenID
4 3 (3.95%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.95%) Node.js
4 3 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.63%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.32%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Social Media
3 5 (6.58%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 61 (80.26%) Linux
2 31 (40.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (27.63%) CentOS
4 20 (26.32%) Windows
5 18 (23.68%) Windows Server
6 12 (15.79%) AIX
6 12 (15.79%) Oracle Linux
6 12 (15.79%) Unix
7 11 (14.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (5.26%) Rocky
10 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) DevOps
2 33 (43.42%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (42.11%) Configuration Management
4 29 (38.16%) CI/CD
5 25 (32.89%) Capacity Planning
6 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (30.26%) High Availability
8 21 (27.63%) Observability
9 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 20 (26.32%) Runbook
10 19 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (23.68%) Agile
12 17 (22.37%) Incident Response
13 16 (21.05%) Low Latency
13 16 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (17.11%) ITIL
14 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
15 12 (15.79%) Change Management
16 11 (14.47%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 53 (69.74%) Bash
2 52 (68.42%) Python
3 23 (30.26%) SQL
4 13 (17.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (17.11%) Shell Script
5 12 (15.79%) Korn
5 12 (15.79%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.58%) PHP
8 3 (3.95%) Go
9 1 (1.32%) C
9 1 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) Java
9 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) RHCSA
3 9 (11.84%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) CCNP
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) SLA
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (39.47%) Docker
2 18 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.32%) KVM
6 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (38.16%) Ansible
1 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 28 (36.84%) Terraform
3 18 (23.68%) Grafana
4 13 (17.11%) Data Guard
5 12 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (14.47%) Prometheus
7 9 (11.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (7.89%) ZABBIX
9 5 (6.58%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (6.58%) Podman
10 3 (3.95%) Check_MK
10 3 (3.95%) Kibana
11 2 (2.63%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (2.63%) Netcool
11 2 (2.63%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.63%) Puppet
11 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.63%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) Splunk
2 29 (38.16%) Red Hat
3 21 (27.63%) VMware
4 19 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 13 (17.11%) Oracle
6 12 (15.79%) IBM
7 11 (14.47%) Rapid7
8 6 (7.89%) Atlassian
8 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
8 6 (7.89%) New Relic
9 3 (3.95%) Commvault
10 2 (2.63%) Arista
10 2 (2.63%) BMC
10 2 (2.63%) Cisco
10 2 (2.63%) Forcepoint
10 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.63%) McAfee
10 2 (2.63%) Veeam
10 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace