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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 452 455
Rank change year-on-year -155 +3 +85
Contract jobs citing Nessus 35 67 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 1.73% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 56
10th Percentile £364 £395 £258
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -5.83% +2.90%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £584
90th Percentile £700 £639 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £484 £510
% change year-on-year -7.02% -5.10% +1.90%

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 5,127 3,879 3,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.01% 13.95% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,410 2,555 2,703
10th Percentile £312 £280 £300
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £717
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 68 52
10th Percentile £21.28 £18.55 £20.05
25th Percentile £35.49 £20.98 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.44% -13.38% -21.50%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £89.18 £77.88 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £38.25
% change year-on-year +145.75% -30.85% -30.45%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -75 13 £413 -19.89% 12
London -99 12 £550 +12.82% 7
Yorkshire -36 9 £368 -15.52% 7
East of England -21 5 £450 - 3
South West -38 3 £413 -6.78% 1
North East - 3 £463 - 2
North West -63 1 £450 -20.25% 3
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 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Cohesity
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) Route 53
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) DNS
1 10 (28.57%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) Skype
2 5 (14.29%) VPN
3 3 (8.57%) DHCP
3 3 (8.57%) DMZ
3 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.71%) FTP
4 2 (5.71%) HTTP
4 2 (5.71%) IMAP
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security
4 2 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (5.71%) SMTP
4 2 (5.71%) SSH
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.86%) LAN
5 1 (2.86%) Wireless
5 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
3 1 (2.86%) Snyk
General
1 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Security Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Incident Response Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Security Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 7 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 5 (14.29%) PKI
1 5 (14.29%) SCADA
1 5 (14.29%) Smartcard
1 5 (14.29%) YubiKey
2 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 11 (31.43%) Linux
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (31.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 10 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
7 8 (22.86%) Observability
8 7 (20.00%) Agile
8 7 (20.00%) API Development
9 6 (17.14%) Security Hardening
10 5 (14.29%) DevOps
10 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 5 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
10 5 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
11 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (11.43%) Knowledge Transfer
11 4 (11.43%) Programme Governance
11 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) Groovy
4 2 (5.71%) SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
3 6 (17.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (31.43%) Docker
3 9 (25.71%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (8.57%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
6 2 (5.71%) Dovecot
6 2 (5.71%) Postfix
6 2 (5.71%) Squid
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) SCCM
2 9 (25.71%) Grafana
2 9 (25.71%) Prometheus
3 7 (20.00%) Control-M
3 7 (20.00%) IBM Guardium
3 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (17.14%) WSUS
5 5 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (14.29%) VxRail
6 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
7 3 (8.57%) Ansible
7 3 (8.57%) FortiGate
8 2 (5.71%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Tenable
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) Qualys
2 9 (25.71%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) Carbon Black
3 5 (14.29%) Dell
3 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 5 (14.29%) McAfee
3 5 (14.29%) Zscaler
4 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco
5 3 (8.57%) Citrix
5 3 (8.57%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (8.57%) Rapid7
6 2 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (2.86%) Clearswift
7 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.86%) Remedy
7 1 (2.86%) Tanium
7 1 (2.86%) Trend Micro