Nagios Job Trends

Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Nagios skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 732 655
Rank change year-on-year +112 -77 +317
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 58 69 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.089% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.09% 0.95% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 39 39 72
10th Percentile £32,250 £33,750 £38,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,911 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +12.61%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £63,900 £86,500 £79,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -14.41% +12.12%

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 5,326 7,247 9,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.31% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,138 4,416 7,302
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% +4.35%

Nagios
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nagios as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nagios 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +88 57 £55,000 +7.84% 24
London +77 29 £51,250 -31.67% 7
UK excluding London +81 28 £57,500 +21.05% 18
Midlands +63 15 £37,000 - 2
Work from Home +58 9 £55,000 -21.43% 6
South East +44 9 £57,500 +27.83% 7
East Midlands - 8 - - 2
West Midlands +53 7 £37,000 -
South West +51 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 £52,500 - 3

Nagios
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (20.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (13.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (56.90%) AWS
2 26 (44.83%) Azure
3 24 (41.38%) GCP
4 12 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (13.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon Glacier
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.62%) AWS KMS
7 5 (8.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
8 4 (6.90%) Serverless
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) Firewall
2 19 (32.76%) DNS
3 14 (24.14%) VPN
4 13 (22.41%) TCP/IP
5 12 (20.69%) DHCP
6 11 (18.97%) LAN
6 11 (18.97%) MPLS
6 11 (18.97%) Network Security
7 10 (17.24%) BGP
7 10 (17.24%) OSPF
8 9 (15.52%) SMTP
9 8 (13.79%) Skype
9 8 (13.79%) WAN
10 6 (10.34%) HTTP
10 6 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (8.62%) SSL
12 4 (6.90%) VLAN
13 3 (5.17%) FTP
14 2 (3.45%) SAN
14 2 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.79%) DTS
3 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.62%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Vagrant
3 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 21 (36.21%) Finance
2 20 (34.48%) Banking
3 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 10 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
6 8 (13.79%) Retail
7 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Law
10 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Support Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Network Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (8.62%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Linux Support
8 4 (6.90%) Senior
9 3 (5.17%) DBA
9 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Design Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) WebSockets
2 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.72%) LDAP
2 1 (1.72%) Node.js
2 1 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
3 9 (15.52%) CMDB
4 8 (13.79%) Clustering
4 8 (13.79%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (10.34%) PKI
6 4 (6.90%) CCTV
7 2 (3.45%) Replication
8 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (46.55%) Linux
1 27 (46.55%) Windows
2 18 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 12 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (12.07%) VMS
6 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.72%) CentOS
8 1 (1.72%) Unix
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
3 18 (31.03%) High Availability
4 16 (27.59%) DevOps
5 15 (25.86%) Incident Management
5 15 (25.86%) ITIL
6 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) Server Management
8 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (17.24%) Problem Management
9 9 (15.52%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (15.52%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (15.52%) Task Automation
10 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
10 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (12.07%) Customer-Centricity
12 6 (10.34%) Data Protection
12 6 (10.34%) Disk Encryption
12 6 (10.34%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 20 (34.48%) Bash
3 14 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.34%) Java
5 5 (8.62%) Groovy
5 5 (8.62%) Perl
5 5 (8.62%) Ruby
6 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.90%) SQL
7 2 (3.45%) C#
7 2 (3.45%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.72%) PromQL
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.41%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (20.69%) CCNP
4 11 (18.97%) CCNA
4 11 (18.97%) DV Cleared
5 9 (15.52%) Degree
6 7 (12.07%) RHCSA
7 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.45%) CCIE
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (3.45%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.45%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.72%) CCA
9 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.72%) OCA
9 1 (1.72%) OCP
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) Active Directory
2 20 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (20.69%) Docker
4 11 (18.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (17.24%) BitLocker
6 6 (10.34%) Hyper-V
6 6 (10.34%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (10.34%) Terminal Services
6 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (10.34%) vSphere
7 5 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.45%) KVM
8 2 (3.45%) RHEV
8 2 (3.45%) Xen
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) ZABBIX
3 7 (12.07%) Terraform
4 6 (10.34%) Puppet
4 6 (10.34%) vCenter Server
4 6 (10.34%) vMotion
5 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.62%) Proxmox
6 4 (6.90%) Grafana
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (6.90%) SCCM
7 3 (5.17%) Nessus
8 2 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (3.45%) Kibana
9 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 29 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 24 (41.38%) VMware
3 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 18 (31.03%) Red Hat
5 14 (24.14%) Citrix
5 14 (24.14%) Google
6 13 (22.41%) Cisco
7 10 (17.24%) Symantec
8 9 (15.52%) Darktrace
9 8 (13.79%) BMC
9 8 (13.79%) Proofpoint
9 8 (13.79%) Tanium
9 8 (13.79%) Trend Micro
10 7 (12.07%) Fortinet
11 6 (10.34%) HP
11 6 (10.34%) Oracle
12 5 (8.62%) F5
12 5 (8.62%) Juniper
12 5 (8.62%) Splunk
13 4 (6.90%) Commvault