The first table below looks at the demand for Nessus skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 529 573 585
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +12
Contract jobs citing Nessus 5 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.022% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.156% 0.359% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
Average daily rate £412 £250 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+64.60% -44.44%
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3207 3620 3577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.805% 6.106% 5.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 1813 1847 1704
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 173 231
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

Nessus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Nessus Daily Rate Trend

Nessus
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Nessus within the UK.

Nessus Hourly Rate Trend

Nessus
Top 6 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 UK 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
England +48 5 £412 +64.60%
South East - 4 £412 -
Hampshire - 4 £412 -
London +29 1 - -
Farnborough - 1 £473 -
Gosport - 1 £350 -

Nessus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) WSUS
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) Military
3 2 (33.33%) Sourcefire
3 2 (33.33%) Snort
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Nmap
4 1 (16.67%) SecurID
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Altiris
4 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Lumension
4 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution

Nessus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Network Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Installations Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SecurID
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
1 1 (16.67%) System Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) Snort
2 1 (16.67%) Nmap
2 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) WSUS
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
3 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Sourcefire
3 1 (16.67%) Altiris
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Lumension
3 1 (16.67%) LANDesk
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft