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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 461 509
Rank change year-on-year -20 +48 +164
Contract jobs citing Nessus 64 54 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.28% 1.30% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 24
10th Percentile £411 £400 £402
25th Percentile £421 £504 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% -1.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £614 £616 £676
90th Percentile £647 £675 £926
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +5.60%
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 4,985 4,154 5,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.89% 14.42% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,674 3,710
10th Percentile £310 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 53 161
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.05 £22.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.85% -41.53% +27.89%
75th Percentile £66.19 £62.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.89 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +71.84% -46.21% +31.94%

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 December 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 21 December 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 +16 34 £488 -10.55% 3
North of England -31 18 £520 +0.50% 4
West Midlands -18 12 £475 - 1
Midlands -24 12 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -36 10 £452 -19.64% 3
North West -30 8 £564 +11.73%
South West -15 4 £450 +12.36%
South East -31 3 £459 -20.22% 5
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 11 (17.19%) Confluence
1 11 (17.19%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) AWS
3 12 (18.75%) GCP
3 12 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon ELB
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon S3
4 11 (17.19%) AWS KMS
4 11 (17.19%) Route 53
5 6 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.81%) Cloudflare
6 5 (7.81%) OpenDNS
7 4 (6.25%) IaaS
8 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.13%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (32.81%) Firewall
2 16 (25.00%) DNS
3 11 (17.19%) IMAP
3 11 (17.19%) OpenLDAP
3 11 (17.19%) SMTP
4 10 (15.63%) FTP
4 10 (15.63%) HTTP
4 10 (15.63%) SSH
5 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.81%) SSL
7 3 (4.69%) Wireless
8 2 (3.13%) Internet
8 2 (3.13%) Intranet
8 2 (3.13%) VLAN
8 2 (3.13%) VPN
9 1 (1.56%) Multicast
9 1 (1.56%) Network Security
9 1 (1.56%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.19%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (17.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (35.94%) JIRA
2 11 (17.19%) Git
2 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.19%) Vagrant
3 9 (14.06%) Burp Suite
3 9 (14.06%) Metasploit
4 6 (9.38%) sqlmap
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (15.63%) Tester
4 9 (14.06%) Analyst
4 9 (14.06%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (14.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Penetration Tester
5 7 (10.94%) Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Python Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Security Operations Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) LDAP
2 11 (17.19%) FastAPI
2 11 (17.19%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Replication
2 9 (14.06%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (7.81%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) CSOC
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (45.31%) Linux
2 26 (40.63%) Windows
3 16 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 12 (18.75%) VMS
5 11 (17.19%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (9.38%) Unix
7 2 (3.13%) CentOS
7 2 (3.13%) Kali Linux
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Penetration Testing
2 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
2 23 (35.94%) Cloud Security
3 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (31.25%) Vulnerability Management
4 17 (26.56%) DevOps
5 16 (25.00%) Agile
5 16 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 15 (23.44%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (23.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 13 (20.31%) Incident Response
7 13 (20.31%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 13 (20.31%) Patch Management
7 13 (20.31%) Security Operations
8 12 (18.75%) Change Management
8 12 (18.75%) Configuration Management
9 11 (17.19%) Containerisation
9 11 (17.19%) Observability
9 11 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (17.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) Python
2 19 (29.69%) PowerShell
3 11 (17.19%) Groovy
3 11 (17.19%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) Bash
5 5 (7.81%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) Degree
4 11 (17.19%) CISSP
5 10 (15.63%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
6 6 (9.38%) CEH
6 6 (9.38%) OSCP
7 5 (7.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
8 4 (6.25%) GPEN
8 4 (6.25%) MCSA
8 4 (6.25%) MCSE
8 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (4.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (4.69%) CCSP
9 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (4.69%) CISM
9 3 (4.69%) SANS
10 2 (3.13%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (14.06%) NIST
2 2 (3.13%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) Docker
2 16 (25.00%) Squid
3 12 (18.75%) Active Directory
4 11 (17.19%) Dovecot
4 11 (17.19%) Postfix
5 10 (15.63%) DFS Replication
6 5 (7.81%) Snort
7 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (34.38%) Grafana
1 22 (34.38%) Prometheus
2 21 (32.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.00%) Terraform
4 11 (17.19%) Control-M
4 11 (17.19%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (15.63%) Proxmox
6 8 (12.50%) Nmap
7 7 (10.94%) Nexpose
8 6 (9.38%) CASB
9 5 (7.81%) Ansible
9 5 (7.81%) Suricata
10 4 (6.25%) Packer
11 2 (3.13%) QRadar
12 1 (1.56%) SCCM
12 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Tenable
2 16 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 15 (23.44%) Qualys
4 13 (20.31%) Splunk
5 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 11 (17.19%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (12.50%) Cisco
8 7 (10.94%) VMware
9 6 (9.38%) Google
9 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
10 5 (7.81%) Blue Coat
10 5 (7.81%) Carbon Black
10 5 (7.81%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (7.81%) CyberArk
10 5 (7.81%) FireEye
10 5 (7.81%) Remedy
10 5 (7.81%) Tanium
10 5 (7.81%) Zscaler
11 4 (6.25%) Rapid7
12 1 (1.56%) Red Hat