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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 470 485
Rank change year-on-year -91 +15 +92
Contract jobs citing Nessus 58 40 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.97% 0.95% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 44
10th Percentile £325 £393 £257
25th Percentile £425 £450 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £579
90th Percentile £630 £622 £624
UK median daily rate £493 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.55% -3.00% +5.26%

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 5,974 4,201 4,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.46% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,098 2,786 3,351
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.51% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 55 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.98
25th Percentile £32.06 £26.60 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.04 £49.69
90th Percentile £79.30 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +52.32% +16.15% -43.48%

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026. 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
North of England -60 28 £500 -18.30% 5
Yorkshire -36 17 £450 -14.29% 2
North West -46 10 £620 -0.16% 2
London -72 8 £550 +12.82% 7
South East -57 7 £481 -3.75% 1
East of England -18 6 £450 -
West Midlands -58 4 £350 -22.22%
Midlands -62 4 £350 -22.22% 3
South West -31 3 £413 -6.78% 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
1 6 (10.34%) Cohesity
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.72%) CloudFront
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.72%) Route 53
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.14%) DNS
2 9 (15.52%) Firewall
3 6 (10.34%) Skype
4 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
5 4 (6.90%) SSL
5 4 (6.90%) VPN
6 3 (5.17%) DHCP
6 3 (5.17%) DMZ
6 3 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.45%) Network Security
8 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.72%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.72%) IPsec
8 1 (1.72%) LAN
8 1 (1.72%) MPLS
8 1 (1.72%) OSPF
8 1 (1.72%) WAN
8 1 (1.72%) Wireless
8 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.97%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Snyk
3 1 (1.72%) AppScan
3 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.72%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Developer
1 18 (31.03%) Python Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) DevOps Developer
6 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Server Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Server Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 1 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (1.72%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) FastAPI
1 18 (31.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (8.62%) LDAP
3 3 (5.17%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.34%) Smartcard
2 6 (10.34%) YubiKey
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.21%) Windows
2 12 (20.69%) Linux
2 12 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.34%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.72%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
1 21 (36.21%) Vulnerability Management
2 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (32.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 18 (31.03%) Agile
4 18 (31.03%) API Development
4 18 (31.03%) Observability
5 17 (29.31%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (15.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 8 (13.79%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.34%) DevOps
11 6 (10.34%) ITIL
11 6 (10.34%) Penetration Testing
11 6 (10.34%) Validation
12 5 (8.62%) Identity Management
12 5 (8.62%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) Korn
4 1 (1.72%) Lisp
4 1 (1.72%) Ruby
4 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) Degree
4 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) CISSP
5 5 (8.62%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (8.62%) MCSA
5 5 (8.62%) MCSE
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (12.07%) NIST
2 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) COBIT
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 16 (27.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (31.03%) Control-M
2 18 (31.03%) Grafana
2 18 (31.03%) IBM Guardium
2 18 (31.03%) Prometheus
3 11 (18.97%) SCCM
4 6 (10.34%) WSUS
5 5 (8.62%) CASB
6 4 (6.90%) vCenter Server
7 3 (5.17%) Ansible
7 3 (5.17%) FortiGate
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.45%) OpenVAS
9 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (84.48%) Tenable
2 10 (17.24%) Qualys
3 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.34%) CyberArk
4 6 (10.34%) Rapid7
4 6 (10.34%) Remedy
4 6 (10.34%) Splunk
5 4 (6.90%) Cisco
5 4 (6.90%) VMware
6 3 (5.17%) Citrix
6 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.17%) Sophos
6 3 (5.17%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.45%) Snow
8 1 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.72%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.72%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.72%) Tanium
8 1 (1.72%) Trend Micro