Nessus Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Tenable Nessus
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Nessus 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.13% - 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% - 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile £406 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £419 - £581
90th Percentile - - £593
South East median daily rate £459 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -20.22% -17.86% +112.12%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 255 185 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.13% 12.59% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 130 206
10th Percentile £305 £330 £148
25th Percentile £406 £390 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +14.17% -15.29%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £615
90th Percentile £608 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £18.22 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £19.44 - £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.80%
75th Percentile £80.50 - £66.82
90th Percentile £83.20 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £26.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +48.23% -44.25% -8.48%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nessus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Nessus job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nessus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nessus

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nessus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nessus

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 2 £413 - 1
Nessus
South East

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Intranet
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OSINT
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Social Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap