Nessus Contract Job Trends in England

Tenable Nessus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 445 520
Rank change year-on-year -28 +75 +146
Contract jobs citing Nessus 66 68 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.34% 1.53% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 25
10th Percentile £410 £265 £403
25th Percentile £425 £445 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +0.19%
75th Percentile £615 £613 £588
90th Percentile £647 £675 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%

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 4,915 4,437 5,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.13% 14.29% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,860 4,006
10th Percentile £310 £315 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.74%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £656
90th Percentile £694 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.02% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 55 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.28 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +90.59%
75th Percentile £65.41 £63.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.78 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.64% -41.90% +104.20%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in England

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Nessus

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in England

Nessus
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Nessus

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 20 November 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 +4 34 £494 -10.23% 4
North of England -42 18 £520 +2.99% 2
Midlands -15 13 £463 - 3
West Midlands -22 13 £463 - 2
Yorkshire -29 10 £452 -19.64% 1
North West -26 8 £564 +12.85% 1
South West -6 4 £450 -2.76% 3
South East -19 4 £456 -15.12% 7
Nessus
UK

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (18.18%) Confluence
1 12 (18.18%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 20 (30.30%) AWS
3 13 (19.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 12 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 12 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (18.18%) Route 53
5 11 (16.67%) GCP
6 6 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.06%) Cloudflare
8 4 (6.06%) OpenDNS
9 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.03%) GitHub
9 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 20 (30.30%) Firewall
2 16 (24.24%) DNS
3 12 (18.18%) IMAP
3 12 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (18.18%) SMTP
4 10 (15.15%) FTP
4 10 (15.15%) HTTP
4 10 (15.15%) SSH
5 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.58%) SSL
7 3 (4.55%) Network Security
7 3 (4.55%) Wireless
8 2 (3.03%) Internet
8 2 (3.03%) Intranet
8 2 (3.03%) VLAN
8 2 (3.03%) VPN
9 1 (1.52%) Multicast
9 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) JIRA
2 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 12 (18.18%) Git
3 12 (18.18%) Vagrant
4 9 (13.64%) Burp Suite
4 9 (13.64%) Metasploit
5 6 (9.09%) sqlmap
6 2 (3.03%) GitLab
6 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 11 (16.67%) Finance
5 10 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 12 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 12 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Tester
3 9 (13.64%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (10.61%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Python Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Security Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Security Operations Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Vulnerability Manager
8 2 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) LDAP
2 11 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 11 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Replication
2 9 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) CSOC
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.91%) Linux
2 25 (37.88%) Windows
3 13 (19.70%) Ubuntu
3 13 (19.70%) VMS
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (9.09%) Unix
6 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.03%) Kali Linux
8 1 (1.52%) CentOS
8 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Penetration Testing
2 26 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 25 (37.88%) Cloud Security
3 25 (37.88%) Vulnerability Management
4 20 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (25.76%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (24.24%) DevOps
6 16 (24.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 15 (22.73%) Agile
7 15 (22.73%) Patch Management
8 14 (21.21%) Incident Response
9 13 (19.70%) Change Management
9 13 (19.70%) Configuration Management
9 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
9 13 (19.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 12 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (18.18%) Security Operations
11 11 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) Python
2 19 (28.79%) PowerShell
3 12 (18.18%) Groovy
3 12 (18.18%) SQL
4 11 (16.67%) Bash
5 4 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.18%) Degree
4 11 (16.67%) CISSP
5 10 (15.15%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.15%) Azure Certification
6 6 (9.09%) CEH
6 6 (9.09%) OSCP
7 4 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (6.06%) GPEN
7 4 (6.06%) MCSA
7 4 (6.06%) MCSE
7 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.55%) CCSP
8 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.55%) CISM
8 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.55%) SANS
9 2 (3.03%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (12.12%) NIST
2 4 (6.06%) GDPR
2 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (43.94%) Docker
2 16 (24.24%) Squid
3 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 12 (18.18%) Dovecot
3 12 (18.18%) Postfix
4 10 (15.15%) DFS Replication
5 4 (6.06%) Snort
6 1 (1.52%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (34.85%) Grafana
1 23 (34.85%) Prometheus
2 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (24.24%) Terraform
4 11 (16.67%) Control-M
4 11 (16.67%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (15.15%) Proxmox
6 8 (12.12%) Nmap
7 6 (9.09%) CASB
7 6 (9.09%) Nexpose
8 4 (6.06%) Suricata
9 3 (4.55%) Ansible
9 3 (4.55%) SCCM
10 2 (3.03%) HP Fortify
10 2 (3.03%) Packer
10 2 (3.03%) QRadar
10 2 (3.03%) WSUS
11 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) Tenable
2 17 (25.76%) Qualys
2 17 (25.76%) ServiceNow
3 12 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (18.18%) Splunk
4 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.61%) Cisco
6 6 (9.09%) Rapid7
7 5 (7.58%) CyberArk
7 5 (7.58%) Google
7 5 (7.58%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.58%) Remedy
7 5 (7.58%) Tanium
8 4 (6.06%) Blue Coat
8 4 (6.06%) Carbon Black
8 4 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (6.06%) FireEye
8 4 (6.06%) VMware
8 4 (6.06%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.52%) Dell