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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 444 510
Rank change year-on-year -49 +66 +145
Contract jobs citing Nessus 67 41 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.30% 1.05% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 30
10th Percentile £350 £431 £411
25th Percentile £413 £519 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £515 £650 £825
90th Percentile £615 £675 £938
UK median daily rate £460 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -20.09% -4.17% +26.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £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 5,139 3,892 4,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.67% 14.71% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,571 2,521 3,475
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.43% -10.64%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £644
90th Percentile £700 £738 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 48 155
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.40 £15.35
25th Percentile £21.06 £20.74 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +8.66%
75th Percentile £62.78 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.36 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +19.95%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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
London -9 28 £500 -11.11% 6
North of England -41 20 £469 -12.74% 3
Yorkshire -35 15 £435 -24.35% 1
West Midlands -27 12 £475 - 2
Midlands -39 12 £475 - 2
South East -25 8 £413 -32.65% 5
North West -27 5 £508 +1.64% 1
South West -23 4 £450 +12.36%
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 8 (11.94%) Confluence
1 8 (11.94%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) GCP
4 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (14.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (13.43%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (13.43%) AWS KMS
5 9 (13.43%) Route 53
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.97%) Cloudflare
9 4 (5.97%) IaaS
9 4 (5.97%) OpenDNS
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon Macie
11 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 9 (13.43%) DNS
3 8 (11.94%) FTP
3 8 (11.94%) HTTP
3 8 (11.94%) IMAP
3 8 (11.94%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (11.94%) SMTP
3 8 (11.94%) SSH
4 3 (4.48%) VPN
4 3 (4.48%) Wireless
5 2 (2.99%) Internet
5 2 (2.99%) Intranet
5 2 (2.99%) VLAN
6 1 (1.49%) BGP
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.49%) IPsec
6 1 (1.49%) MPLS
6 1 (1.49%) OSPF
6 1 (1.49%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (35.82%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (35.82%) JIRA
2 11 (16.42%) Burp Suite
3 10 (14.93%) Metasploit
4 8 (11.94%) Git
4 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.94%) Vagrant
5 6 (8.96%) sqlmap
6 1 (1.49%) AppScan
6 1 (1.49%) Snyk
General
1 23 (34.33%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Finance
4 8 (11.94%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Developer
1 12 (17.91%) Python Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Tester
3 10 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Penetration Tester
4 9 (13.43%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Security Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Operations Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) FastAPI
1 16 (23.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (11.94%) LDAP
3 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Replication
2 7 (10.45%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.46%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) CSOC
5 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Linux
2 20 (29.85%) Windows
3 13 (19.40%) Ubuntu
4 8 (11.94%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (11.94%) VMS
5 4 (5.97%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.49%) CentOS
6 1 (1.49%) Unix
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 21 (31.34%) Penetration Testing
4 18 (26.87%) Cloud Security
5 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
5 16 (23.88%) Observability
5 16 (23.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 15 (22.39%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (22.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 14 (20.90%) API Development
8 13 (19.40%) DevOps
8 13 (19.40%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 12 (17.91%) Incident Response
9 12 (17.91%) SIEM
9 12 (17.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 10 (14.93%) Red Team
10 10 (14.93%) Security Operations
11 9 (13.43%) Patch Management
11 9 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (55.22%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.94%) Bash
3 8 (11.94%) Groovy
3 8 (11.94%) SQL
4 4 (5.97%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.49%) Lisp
5 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 20 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) Degree
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Certification
5 8 (11.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (8.96%) CISSP
6 6 (8.96%) OSCP
7 5 (7.46%) CEH
7 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
8 4 (5.97%) GPEN
8 4 (5.97%) SANS
9 3 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (4.48%) CCSP
9 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.99%) CISM
10 2 (2.99%) CREST Certified
10 2 (2.99%) GIAC
10 2 (2.99%) GXPN
10 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.99%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (16.42%) NIST
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.49%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (41.79%) Docker
2 12 (17.91%) Squid
3 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.94%) DFS Replication
3 8 (11.94%) Dovecot
3 8 (11.94%) Postfix
4 4 (5.97%) Snort
5 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.49%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Kubernetes
2 24 (35.82%) Grafana
2 24 (35.82%) Prometheus
3 16 (23.88%) Control-M
3 16 (23.88%) IBM Guardium
4 14 (20.90%) Terraform
5 9 (13.43%) Nmap
6 8 (11.94%) Proxmox
7 6 (8.96%) Ansible
7 6 (8.96%) Nexpose
8 4 (5.97%) Packer
8 4 (5.97%) Suricata
9 2 (2.99%) CASB
9 2 (2.99%) OpenVAS
9 2 (2.99%) QRadar
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (40.30%) Tenable
2 14 (20.90%) Qualys
3 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 11 (16.42%) ServiceNow
5 9 (13.43%) Splunk
6 8 (11.94%) Cisco
6 8 (11.94%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (8.96%) Google
7 6 (8.96%) Rapid7
7 6 (8.96%) VMware
8 5 (7.46%) Palo Alto
9 4 (5.97%) Blue Coat
9 4 (5.97%) Carbon Black
9 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (5.97%) FireEye
9 4 (5.97%) Tanium
9 4 (5.97%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.49%) Dell
10 1 (1.49%) Intel
10 1 (1.49%) Red Hat