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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 495 607
Rank change year-on-year +37 +112 +101
Contract jobs citing Nessus 27 47 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.091%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.71% 1.07% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 27
10th Percentile £445 £388 £325
25th Percentile £475 £472 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £590 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +24.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £825 £581
90th Percentile £675 £919 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £590 £459
% change year-on-year -13.14% +28.68% +1.89%

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in England

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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 1 May 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
South East +33 9 £575 -28.13% 112
London +25 4 £510 -7.27% 33
South West - 3 £485 - 61
West Midlands - 3 - - 49
Midlands - 3 - - 91
East of England +30 2 £450 -33.33% 73
North of England +16 2 £525 -7.69% 99
Yorkshire +4 1 £525 -7.69% 42
North West - 1 - - 45
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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) SaaS
3 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.93%) OpenShift
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (11.11%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Cohesity
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
1 4 (14.81%) Network Security
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) DHCP
3 2 (7.41%) HTTP
3 2 (7.41%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 2 (7.41%) Skype
3 2 (7.41%) SSL
3 2 (7.41%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Burp Suite
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Maven
2 2 (7.41%) Metasploit
2 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Snyk
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Senior
3 8 (29.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Security Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) LDAP
1 2 (7.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (25.93%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.41%) Smartcard
3 2 (7.41%) YubiKey
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.70%) MISP
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Linux
3 11 (40.74%) Ubuntu
4 10 (37.04%) Windows Server
5 9 (33.33%) CentOS
6 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (7.41%) Debian
8 1 (3.70%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
1 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (37.04%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 7 (25.93%) Application Packaging
4 7 (25.93%) Change Control
4 7 (25.93%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (25.93%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (14.81%) SIEM
8 3 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
8 3 (11.11%) Patch Management
8 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
9 2 (7.41%) Asset Management
9 2 (7.41%) Benchmarking
9 2 (7.41%) Security Testing
9 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) CEH
4 3 (11.11%) CISSP
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.70%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (29.63%) vSphere
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.81%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Terraform
3 8 (29.63%) Ansible
3 8 (29.63%) vCenter Server
4 4 (14.81%) SCCM
4 4 (14.81%) WSUS
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
6 1 (3.70%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.70%) Nmap
6 1 (3.70%) OpenVAS
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
6 1 (3.70%) QRadar
6 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (29.63%) Tenable
4 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
5 6 (22.22%) Qualys
6 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
6 2 (7.41%) Sophos
6 2 (7.41%) Tripwire
7 1 (3.70%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.70%) Carbon Black
7 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.70%) Dell
7 1 (3.70%) Google
7 1 (3.70%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.70%) Splunk