Nessus Contracts in England

Tenable Nessus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Nessus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nessus over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 495 597
Rank change year-on-year +37 +102 +98
Contract jobs citing Nessus 34 50 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 1.06% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 40 36
10th Percentile £380 £254 £325
25th Percentile £450 £405 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - +3.36%
75th Percentile £498 £589 £549
90th Percentile £530 £635 £650
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.85% +5.26% -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,145 4,718 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.63% 12.66% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,754 3,387 5,229
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 95 165
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.47 £19.10
25th Percentile £26.45 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -42.73% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £84.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%

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 5 July 2025.

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

Nessus
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 5 July 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
London +36 10 £488 -10.96% 53
South West +41 6 £443 -15.71% 7
Midlands +12 5 £450 - 4
West Midlands +10 5 £450 - 4
South East +19 4 £500 +87.10% 11
East of England +27 3 £450 -28.00% 7
North of England +1 2 £525 -5.83% 13
North West +3 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +1 1 £525 -7.69% 4
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) Cohesity
6 3 (8.82%) IaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.88%) PaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Route 53
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Network Security
2 5 (14.71%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (8.82%) Skype
5 2 (5.88%) DHCP
5 2 (5.88%) HTTP
5 2 (5.88%) IMAP
5 2 (5.88%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) SMTP
5 2 (5.88%) SSL
5 2 (5.88%) VLAN
6 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) SonarQube
3 4 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (5.88%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.88%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.94%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.94%) Snyk
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Analyst
1 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Security Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Security Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (8.82%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.82%) Smartcard
2 3 (8.82%) YubiKey
3 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) MISP
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
4 3 (8.82%) CentOS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Debian
5 2 (5.88%) VMS
6 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Vulnerability Management
2 12 (35.29%) Cloud Security
2 12 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
3 10 (29.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) DevOps
4 9 (26.47%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (20.59%) Incident Response
5 7 (20.59%) Patch Management
6 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.65%) Secure Coding
6 6 (17.65%) Security Hardening
6 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.71%) Cryptography
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) SIEM
8 4 (11.76%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 9 (26.47%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) Groovy
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) CISSP
3 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) CEH
5 2 (5.88%) CISM
6 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.94%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.94%) GIAC
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) PCI DSS
2 6 (17.65%) GDPR
3 5 (14.71%) HIPAA
3 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (11.76%) NIST
5 1 (2.94%) GRC
5 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.94%) SLA
5 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) Squid
4 2 (5.88%) Dovecot
4 2 (5.88%) Postfix
5 1 (2.94%) Snort
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) SCCM
2 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 8 (23.53%) WSUS
3 5 (14.71%) HP Fortify
4 3 (8.82%) Ansible
5 2 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) Nexpose
6 1 (2.94%) OpenVAS
6 1 (2.94%) Packer
6 1 (2.94%) QRadar
6 1 (2.94%) Suricata
6 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Qualys
2 11 (32.35%) Tenable
3 5 (14.71%) Rapid7
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) VMware
5 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) Carbon Black
6 2 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.88%) Google
6 2 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (5.88%) Sophos
6 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 2 (5.88%) Tripwire
7 1 (2.94%) ArcSight
7 1 (2.94%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) FireEye
7 1 (2.94%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) Zscaler