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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 438 498
Rank change year-on-year -78 +60 +119
Contract jobs citing Nessus 61 31 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.11% 0.81% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 34
10th Percentile £358 £400 £413
25th Percentile £421 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.25% +24.21%
75th Percentile £547 £613 £825
90th Percentile £630 £675 £926
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £592
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.54% +27.31%

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 5,501 3,835 4,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 15.65% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,661 3,161
10th Percentile £315 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 35 121
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £38.71 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -9.17% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.33 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
% change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -38 26 £500 +8.11% 4
Yorkshire -49 16 £450 -14.29% 2
South East -52 14 £475 -17.39% 8
North West -38 10 £620 +55.00% 1
London -59 7 £500 -1.96% 2
East of England -29 4 £450 - 3
South West -30 4 £450 +12.36% 1
West Midlands -60 4 £350 - 1
Midlands -65 4 £350 - 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 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) GCP
3 4 (6.56%) Cohesity
3 4 (6.56%) IaaS
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.28%) Mimecast
4 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.64%) GitHub
5 1 (1.64%) Route 53
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) DNS
2 7 (11.48%) Firewall
3 5 (8.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.56%) Skype
4 4 (6.56%) SSL
5 3 (4.92%) Wireless
6 2 (3.28%) Internet
6 2 (3.28%) Intranet
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
7 1 (1.64%) Anycast
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.64%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.64%) IPsec
7 1 (1.64%) MPLS
7 1 (1.64%) NGFW
7 1 (1.64%) OSPF
7 1 (1.64%) VPN
7 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.28%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.64%) AppScan
4 1 (1.64%) Snyk
4 1 (1.64%) sqlmap
General
1 23 (37.70%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Developer
1 17 (27.87%) Python Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Security Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (6.56%) Tester
6 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
7 3 (4.92%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Automation Specialist
8 2 (3.28%) Compliance Specialist
8 2 (3.28%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.87%) FastAPI
1 17 (27.87%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (8.20%) LDAP
3 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (6.56%) Smartcard
3 4 (6.56%) YubiKey
4 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) SCADA
5 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Windows
2 17 (27.87%) Linux
3 7 (11.48%) Ubuntu
3 7 (11.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.20%) Unix
5 3 (4.92%) Kali Linux
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.64%) CentOS
7 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 22 (36.07%) CI/CD
2 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (31.15%) Vulnerability Management
4 17 (27.87%) Agile
4 17 (27.87%) API Development
4 17 (27.87%) Observability
5 16 (26.23%) Containerisation
6 11 (18.03%) Cloud Security
6 11 (18.03%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (18.03%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 10 (16.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) ITIL
9 8 (13.11%) DevOps
9 8 (13.11%) SIEM
10 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (9.84%) Validation
12 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.20%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) Python
2 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.56%) Bash
4 1 (1.64%) Korn
4 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.64%) Lisp
4 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) CISSP
4 7 (11.48%) Degree
5 6 (9.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (8.20%) MCSA
6 5 (8.20%) MCSE
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.28%) CCSP
7 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.28%) SANS
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.64%) CEH
8 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (14.75%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) JSP 440
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.28%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) COBIT
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
2 12 (19.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) vSphere
5 1 (1.64%) Snort
5 1 (1.64%) Squid
5 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 17 (27.87%) Control-M
2 17 (27.87%) Grafana
2 17 (27.87%) IBM Guardium
2 17 (27.87%) Prometheus
3 6 (9.84%) Ansible
3 6 (9.84%) CASB
3 6 (9.84%) Terraform
4 4 (6.56%) Packer
4 4 (6.56%) SCCM
4 4 (6.56%) WSUS
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.92%) Nmap
5 3 (4.92%) OpenVAS
6 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.64%) Nexpose
7 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.64%) Suricata
Vendors
1 42 (68.85%) Tenable
2 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.75%) Qualys
4 7 (11.48%) Splunk
5 6 (9.84%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.84%) Rapid7
5 6 (9.84%) Remedy
5 6 (9.84%) VMware
6 3 (4.92%) Cisco
6 3 (4.92%) Google
6 3 (4.92%) Sophos
7 2 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.28%) Snow
8 1 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.64%) Carbon Black
8 1 (1.64%) FireEye
8 1 (1.64%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.64%) Tanium
8 1 (1.64%) Zscaler