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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 625 788
Rank change year-on-year -58 +163 -35
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 70 52 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.27% 0.93% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63 40 68
10th Percentile £54,000 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £44,728
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +12.75% -15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,438 £70,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +13.86% +6.32%

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 5,519 5,610 9,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.64% 11.46% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,038 3,346 6,652
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,269 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +7.63% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

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 10 July 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 10 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 -56 64 £72,500 +26.09% 9
London -25 35 £75,000 +36.36% 5
UK excluding London -51 31 £70,000 +21.74% 7
South East -34 13 £70,000 +21.74% 1
South West -52 7 £65,000 - 3
Midlands -29 5 £72,500 +85.90%
North West - 4 £72,500 - 1
North of England - 4 £72,500 - 1
Work from Home -5 3 £40,000 -27.27% 4
West Midlands -15 3 £80,000 +105.13%
East Midlands - 2 £35,000 -
Scotland - 1 £72,500 - 1
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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (4.29%) nginx
3 2 (2.86%) IIS
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 11 (15.71%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.71%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Azure
3 11 (15.71%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (15.71%) GCP
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (10.00%) Azure Stack
5 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.71%) Datadog
7 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.29%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.86%) Serverless
9 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (20.00%) DNS
3 9 (12.86%) BGP
3 9 (12.86%) HTTP
3 9 (12.86%) LAN
3 9 (12.86%) OSPF
3 9 (12.86%) VLAN
4 8 (11.43%) SNMP
5 6 (8.57%) Firewall
5 6 (8.57%) IPFIX
6 4 (5.71%) Multicast
6 4 (5.71%) VPN
7 3 (4.29%) DHCP
8 2 (2.86%) IGMP
8 2 (2.86%) Network Security
8 2 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.86%) SAN
8 2 (2.86%) VXLAN
8 2 (2.86%) WAN
8 2 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) MySQL
1 11 (15.71%) Oracle Database
2 9 (12.86%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.29%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Redis
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (38.57%) Git
2 24 (34.29%) GitLab
3 7 (10.00%) JIRA
4 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 37 (52.86%) Finance
2 34 (48.57%) Social Skills
3 33 (47.14%) Banking
4 21 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (10.00%) Law
7 6 (8.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.86%) Automotive
8 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Administrator
1 20 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
1 20 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 20 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 15 (21.43%) Senior
3 12 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.71%) DBA
4 11 (15.71%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (15.71%) Senior DBA
4 11 (15.71%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 10 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) Site Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (11.43%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 8 (11.43%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) WebSockets
2 7 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 7 (10.00%) gRPC
3 4 (5.71%) Node.js
4 3 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.29%) React
5 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.86%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.86%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) CSS
6 1 (1.43%) CSS3
6 1 (1.43%) HTML
6 1 (1.43%) HTML5
6 1 (1.43%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.43%) OAuth
6 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 58 (82.86%) Linux
2 29 (41.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (30.00%) Windows
4 19 (27.14%) CentOS
5 16 (22.86%) Windows Server
6 12 (17.14%) Oracle Linux
7 11 (15.71%) AIX
7 11 (15.71%) Ubuntu
7 11 (15.71%) Unix
8 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (5.71%) Rocky
10 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (55.71%) DevOps
2 37 (52.86%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 27 (38.57%) CI/CD
5 22 (31.43%) Capacity Planning
5 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (31.43%) Observability
6 19 (27.14%) Containerisation
6 19 (27.14%) Runbook
7 18 (25.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (22.86%) High Availability
9 15 (21.43%) Incident Response
9 15 (21.43%) ITIL
9 15 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (20.00%) Low Latency
11 13 (18.57%) Agile
12 12 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (15.71%) Change Management
13 11 (15.71%) Network Monitoring
13 11 (15.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (68.57%) Bash
2 45 (64.29%) Python
3 22 (31.43%) SQL
4 13 (18.57%) Shell Script
5 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
6 11 (15.71%) Korn
6 11 (15.71%) PL/SQL
7 5 (7.14%) PHP
8 3 (4.29%) Go
8 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.86%) C
9 2 (2.86%) C++
9 2 (2.86%) Java
9 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) RHCSA
3 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.86%) CCNP
5 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) CCIE
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 7 (10.00%) SLA
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) Docker
2 19 (27.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (15.71%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.43%) KVM
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.14%) Ansible
3 24 (34.29%) Terraform
4 17 (24.29%) Grafana
5 12 (17.14%) Prometheus
6 11 (15.71%) Data Guard
6 11 (15.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (8.57%) ZABBIX
8 5 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (7.14%) Podman
9 4 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (5.71%) Check_MK
10 3 (4.29%) Kibana
11 2 (2.86%) Netcool
11 2 (2.86%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.86%) Tivoli
12 1 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (1.43%) Puppet
12 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (32.86%) Splunk
2 22 (31.43%) VMware
3 21 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 20 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 12 (17.14%) Oracle
6 11 (15.71%) IBM
7 9 (12.86%) Rapid7
8 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
9 5 (7.14%) Cisco
10 4 (5.71%) Commvault
11 3 (4.29%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.86%) Arista
12 2 (2.86%) BMC
12 2 (2.86%) Epicor
12 2 (2.86%) TP-LINK
12 2 (2.86%) Veeam
13 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
13 1 (1.43%) F5
13 1 (1.43%) New Relic
13 1 (1.43%) Zerto