The first table below looks at the demand for Nessus skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nessus over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tenable Nessus
Rank 225 - 241
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Nessus 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% - 0.010%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.578% - 0.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £412 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £412 £250 £450
% change year-on-year
+64.60% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Systems Management
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
692 697 714
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 8.735% 6.738% 6.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 327 274
Average daily rate £330 £326 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% +8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 54 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £13.50 £16.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Nessus
England

Nessus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Nessus across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

South East Nessus Jobs Demand Trend

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Nessus across the South East region.

South East Nessus Daily Rate Trend

Nessus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hampshire - 4 £412 -
Nessus
England

Nessus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Nessus also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Nessus.

1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Military
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) Sourcefire
2 2 (50.00%) Snort
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) HTML

Nessus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Nessus also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Nessus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Network Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) SecurID
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) Snort
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Nmap
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sourcefire
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ArcSight