Nessus Contracts in England

Tenable Nessus
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Nessus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Nessus over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 602 709
Rank change year-on-year +106 +107 -148
Contract jobs citing Nessus 47 46 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.091% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.07% 0.58% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 49
10th Percentile £388 £325 £238
25th Percentile £472 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £825 £581 £588
90th Percentile £919 £650 £660
UK median daily rate £590 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +28.68% +1.89% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Nessus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,395 7,904 11,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 15.66% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,180 5,773 8,309
10th Percentile £250 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.86%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.43% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 184 162
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.83 £13.88
25th Percentile £17.74 £23.13 £15.31
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £51.13 £72.80 £44.46
90th Percentile £70.13 £82.16 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +155.56% -43.75%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in England

Nessus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nessus in England.

Daily rate trend for Nessus in England

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in England

Nessus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nessus in England.

Hourly rate trend for Nessus in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +36 22 £800 +109.84% 9
London +97 17 £550 +10.00% 9
North of England +32 5 £569 -1.09% 5
Yorkshire +27 5 £569 +26.39% 3
East of England - 2 £675 - 2
Nessus
UK

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 8 (17.02%) GitHub
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) IaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.26%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (40.43%) Firewall
1 19 (40.43%) Network Security
2 12 (25.53%) Cisco ASA
2 12 (25.53%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (19.15%) DNS
4 7 (14.89%) DHCP
5 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 5 (10.64%) WAN
6 4 (8.51%) LAN
6 4 (8.51%) NAS
6 4 (8.51%) SAN
6 4 (8.51%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.26%) VPN
8 1 (2.13%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.13%) VLAN
8 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.15%) MySQL
3 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Burp Suite
2 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.77%) GitLab
4 5 (10.64%) AppScan
4 5 (10.64%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.38%) Metasploit
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) Git
6 1 (2.13%) MSI
6 1 (2.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.13%) Subversion
General
1 10 (21.28%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.38%) Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Electronics
7 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 2 (4.26%) Multimedia
7 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Security Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Network Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Network Security Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Security Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Site Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.38%) Head of Security
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.13%) LDAP
2 1 (2.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) PKI
1 8 (17.02%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.51%) Fat Client
4 4 (8.51%) Thin Client
5 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Windows
2 14 (29.79%) Linux
3 11 (23.40%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.38%) Kali Linux
6 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 13 (27.66%) Information Security
3 10 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (21.28%) SIEM
4 9 (19.15%) DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) Security Operations
4 9 (19.15%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
5 8 (17.02%) Incident Response
5 8 (17.02%) Time Management
6 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (14.89%) OWASP
7 6 (12.77%) Change Control
7 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (12.77%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) DV Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) CCNP
3 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (21.28%) CISM
5 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
6 6 (12.77%) Degree
7 5 (10.64%) CISSP
8 3 (6.38%) CEH
8 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (4.26%) CREST Certified
9 2 (4.26%) CSSLP
9 2 (4.26%) GCIA
9 2 (4.26%) GCIH
9 2 (4.26%) GIAC
9 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.13%) CISA
10 1 (2.13%) MCSA
10 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) PCI DSS
2 5 (10.64%) NIST
2 5 (10.64%) QA
3 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (4.26%) COBIT
5 2 (4.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (17.02%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.64%) Docker
5 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.26%) vSphere
6 2 (4.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Ansible
2 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) WSUS
4 5 (10.64%) Grafana
4 5 (10.64%) Graylog
4 5 (10.64%) HP Fortify
4 5 (10.64%) Progress Chef
4 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.64%) Puppet
4 5 (10.64%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.64%) WebInspect
4 5 (10.64%) ZABBIX
5 4 (8.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.51%) Nmap
5 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (6.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (6.38%) QRadar
7 2 (4.26%) CSIRT
7 2 (4.26%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (29.79%) Cisco
3 12 (25.53%) Juniper
3 12 (25.53%) Palo Alto
3 12 (25.53%) VMware
4 11 (23.40%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (19.15%) Splunk
6 6 (12.77%) Oracle
7 5 (10.64%) Checkmarx
7 5 (10.64%) Qualys
7 5 (10.64%) Veracode
8 4 (8.51%) Citrix
8 4 (8.51%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.51%) Veeam
9 3 (6.38%) Rapid7
10 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
10 2 (4.26%) HP
10 2 (4.26%) SAP
10 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds