Nagios
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Nagios skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Nagios over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 797 829
Rank change year-on-year +149 +32 +155
Permanent jobs citing Nagios 57 100 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 1.01% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47 80 94
10th Percentile £50,000 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,750 £77,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

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 5,612 9,865 14,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 9.96% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,259 7,106 9,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Nagios.

Salary trend for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nagios over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Nagios in the UK

Nagios
Top 11 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 15 May 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 +104 56 £66,250 +29.90% 43
London +112 40 £80,000 +1.91% 29
Work from Home +110 18 £85,000 +13.33% 30
UK excluding London +128 16 £57,500 +15.00% 31
South East +84 6 £57,500 +57.32% 10
Midlands +65 4 £39,000 -17.89% 1
West Midlands +55 4 £39,000 -17.89%
East of England - 3 £90,000 - 5
North of England +50 2 £55,000 -12.00% 3
North West -1 2 £55,000 +30.95%
South West +84 1 - - 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 8 (14.04%) nginx
2 7 (12.28%) Apache
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 29 (50.88%) Azure
3 23 (40.35%) GCP
4 7 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.26%) AWS KMS
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.26%) Serverless
7 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 29 (50.88%) Firewall
2 15 (26.32%) DNS
3 13 (22.81%) VPN
4 10 (17.54%) MPLS
5 9 (15.79%) BGP
5 9 (15.79%) OSPF
6 7 (12.28%) DHCP
7 6 (10.53%) Network Security
7 6 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (10.53%) SMTP
8 5 (8.77%) HTTP
8 5 (8.77%) SSL
8 5 (8.77%) VLAN
9 4 (7.02%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (7.02%) LAN
9 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.26%) Multicast
11 2 (3.51%) FTP
11 2 (3.51%) HTTPS
11 2 (3.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (15.79%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 10 (17.54%) GitLab
3 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (5.26%) Vagrant
General
1 33 (57.89%) Finance
2 26 (45.61%) Banking
3 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (8.77%) Front Office
8 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Administrator
2 15 (26.32%) Linux Administrator
2 15 (26.32%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (21.05%) Senior
4 11 (19.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 9 (15.79%) Network Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Applications Support
6 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Senior Applications Support
6 7 (12.28%) Support Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Linux Support
10 3 (5.26%) Analyst
10 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 2 (3.51%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (5.26%) Node.js
1 3 (5.26%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.51%) EDI
2 2 (3.51%) LAMP
2 2 (3.51%) Loki
2 2 (3.51%) XML
3 1 (1.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.53%) Clustering
2 6 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.53%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Wiki
4 3 (5.26%) Replication
5 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.51%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) Life Science
5 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.51%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.75%) Derivative
6 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (70.18%) Linux
2 18 (31.58%) Windows
3 15 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (21.05%) Windows Server
5 10 (17.54%) CentOS
6 3 (5.26%) Rocky
6 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.26%) VMS
7 2 (3.51%) AIX
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.51%) Unix
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (45.61%) DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) High Availability
3 15 (26.32%) Incident Management
4 13 (22.81%) Configuration Management
5 11 (19.30%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (17.54%) ITIL
7 9 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (12.28%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (12.28%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (12.28%) Low Latency
9 6 (10.53%) Application Virtualisation
9 6 (10.53%) Disk Encryption
9 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.53%) RBAC
9 6 (10.53%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.77%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Python
2 33 (57.89%) Bash
3 13 (22.81%) SQL
4 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 7 (12.28%) Perl
6 3 (5.26%) Groovy
6 3 (5.26%) Java
6 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.26%) Ruby
6 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) AWK
7 2 (3.51%) C
7 2 (3.51%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) Korn
7 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) CCNA
1 9 (15.79%) CCNP
1 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (14.04%) DV Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) RHCSA
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.02%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (26.32%) Docker
3 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
4 10 (17.54%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (12.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (10.53%) BitLocker
6 6 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (10.53%) Terminal Services
6 6 (10.53%) vSphere
7 4 (7.02%) Postfix
8 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (3.51%) KVM
9 2 (3.51%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 28 (49.12%) Ansible
2 14 (24.56%) Puppet
3 12 (21.05%) Kubernetes
4 9 (15.79%) Graylog
5 8 (14.04%) Terraform
6 7 (12.28%) Grafana
6 7 (12.28%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (10.53%) Proxmox
7 6 (10.53%) vCenter Server
7 6 (10.53%) vMotion
8 5 (8.77%) Nessus
9 4 (7.02%) Opsgenie
9 4 (7.02%) Rundeck
10 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
10 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (3.51%) Kibana
11 2 (3.51%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (45.61%) SolarWinds
2 21 (36.84%) VMware
3 18 (31.58%) Red Hat
4 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
5 10 (17.54%) Citrix
6 9 (15.79%) Cisco
7 7 (12.28%) Google
7 7 (12.28%) Juniper
8 6 (10.53%) HP
8 6 (10.53%) IBM
8 6 (10.53%) Splunk
8 6 (10.53%) Symantec
9 4 (7.02%) NetApp
9 4 (7.02%) PagerDuty
9 4 (7.02%) Palo Alto
9 4 (7.02%) Pure Storage
9 4 (7.02%) Rapid7
10 2 (3.51%) Commvault
10 2 (3.51%) Oracle
10 2 (3.51%) Tenable