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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 753 621 708
Rank change year-on-year -132 +87 -46
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 60 60 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.12% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.13% 1.21% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 44 38 38
10th Percentile £59,125 £32,125 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +8.91% -19.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £63,975 £86,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £46,241
% change year-on-year +13.04% +24.35% -16.68%

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 5,308 4,952 6,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 10.02% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,687 2,864 3,827
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -134 55 £72,500 +31.82% 32
UK excluding London -134 29 £65,000 +13.04% 20
London -51 27 £75,000 +42.86% 12
South East -52 9 £60,000 +4.35% 3
South West -72 8 £65,000 - 1
East of England -17 6 - - 14
North West - 4 £72,500 - 1
North of England - 4 £72,500 - 1
Work from Home -50 3 £41,250 -25.00% 9
West Midlands -51 1 £72,500 +95.95%
Midlands -58 1 £72,500 +95.95%
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 (8.33%) Apache
1 5 (8.33%) JBoss
1 5 (8.33%) nginx
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 10 (16.67%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (18.33%) OpenShift
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (15.00%) GCP
6 8 (13.33%) Datadog
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Stack
8 3 (5.00%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
2 11 (18.33%) SSL
3 8 (13.33%) BGP
3 8 (13.33%) OSPF
3 8 (13.33%) SNMP
4 7 (11.67%) VLAN
5 6 (10.00%) DNS
5 6 (10.00%) HTTP
5 6 (10.00%) IPFIX
5 6 (10.00%) VPN
6 5 (8.33%) IPsec
6 5 (8.33%) LAN
7 4 (6.67%) Firewall
8 1 (1.67%) DHCP
8 1 (1.67%) HSRP
8 1 (1.67%) Network Security
8 1 (1.67%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) MySQL
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 9 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (33.33%) GitLab
2 19 (31.67%) Git
3 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.67%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) Subversion
5 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.67%) Selenium
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 27 (45.00%) Finance
3 24 (40.00%) Banking
4 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.67%) Law
6 6 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Administrator
1 15 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 14 (23.33%) Linux Administrator
2 14 (23.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 13 (21.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) DBA
4 11 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
5 10 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (16.67%) Senior
5 10 (16.67%) Senior DBA
5 10 (16.67%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 9 (15.00%) DevOps Administrator
6 9 (15.00%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 9 (15.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 5 (8.33%) IT Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.67%) Terraform
2 7 (11.67%) gRPC
3 5 (8.33%) CSS
3 5 (8.33%) CSS3
3 5 (8.33%) HTML
3 5 (8.33%) HTML5
3 5 (8.33%) Keycloak
3 5 (8.33%) OAuth
3 5 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 5 (8.33%) OpenID
3 5 (8.33%) React
3 5 (8.33%) WebSockets
4 4 (6.67%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.67%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.67%) Social Media
3 5 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (73.33%) Linux
2 22 (36.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (25.00%) Windows
4 13 (21.67%) CentOS
4 13 (21.67%) Windows Server
5 10 (16.67%) AIX
5 10 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (16.67%) Unix
6 5 (8.33%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.33%) Rocky
8 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) DevOps
2 21 (35.00%) Configuration Management
3 20 (33.33%) High Availability
4 19 (31.67%) Capacity Planning
4 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (30.00%) Runbook
6 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
6 17 (28.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (25.00%) Incident Response
9 14 (23.33%) Containerisation
9 14 (23.33%) Observability
9 14 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (21.67%) Agile
11 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (18.33%) ITIL
11 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.67%) Change Management
12 10 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (16.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) Bash
1 36 (60.00%) Python
2 16 (26.67%) SQL
3 10 (16.67%) Korn
3 10 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 10 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) PHP
7 2 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) CCNA
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 7 (11.67%) SLA
3 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Ansible
1 19 (31.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (28.33%) Grafana
3 11 (18.33%) Data Guard
4 10 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (11.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (8.33%) ZABBIX
8 4 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (6.67%) Podman
9 3 (5.00%) Check_MK
10 2 (3.33%) Kibana
10 2 (3.33%) Netcool
10 2 (3.33%) Tivoli
11 1 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Splunk
2 20 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 12 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 12 (20.00%) VMware
4 11 (18.33%) Oracle
5 10 (16.67%) IBM
6 9 (15.00%) Rapid7
7 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
7 5 (8.33%) Forcepoint
7 5 (8.33%) McAfee
7 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
7 5 (8.33%) New Relic
7 5 (8.33%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.33%) BMC
8 2 (3.33%) Commvault
9 1 (1.67%) Cisco
9 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace