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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 468 454
Rank change year-on-year -108 -14 +103
Contract jobs citing Nessus 37 48 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.081% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.61% 1.12% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 57
10th Percentile £386 £403 £259
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.68% +2.00%
75th Percentile £630 £538 £586
90th Percentile £643 £624 £614
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% +2.00%

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 6,055 4,267 4,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.29% 15.43% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,114 2,841 3,205
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 60 65
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.87 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £24.18
Median hourly rate £66.83 £53.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% +42.67% -24.59%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.80 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.96 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.39 £36.17
% change year-on-year +83.61% -4.92% -35.71%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -55 17 £500 -4.76% 8
London -86 9 £550 +11.96% 18
Yorkshire -33 8 £409 -22.14% 5
North West -45 8 £620 +9.88% 3
East of England -16 6 £450 - 1
South West -41 3 £413 -6.78% 3
North East - 1 £500 -
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 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Cohesity
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) DNS
2 7 (18.92%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) Skype
4 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.11%) DHCP
5 3 (8.11%) DMZ
5 3 (8.11%) SSL
5 3 (8.11%) VPN
5 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) Wireless
6 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Snyk
General
1 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Python Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Incident Response Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Security Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Service Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) FastAPI
1 8 (21.62%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (10.81%) LDAP
3 3 (8.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Smartcard
1 6 (16.22%) YubiKey
2 5 (13.51%) Security Posture
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Windows
2 10 (27.03%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.62%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Vulnerability Management
2 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (37.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 11 (29.73%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.62%) Agile
5 8 (21.62%) API Development
5 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
5 8 (21.62%) Observability
6 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
6 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
7 5 (13.51%) ITIL
7 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 4 (10.81%) DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Identity Management
8 4 (10.81%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.81%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) Bash
3 1 (2.70%) Korn
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) CISSP
4 4 (10.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (10.81%) MCSA
4 4 (10.81%) MCSE
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (21.62%) Docker
3 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) Control-M
2 8 (21.62%) Grafana
2 8 (21.62%) IBM Guardium
2 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
3 6 (16.22%) WSUS
4 4 (10.81%) CASB
4 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (91.89%) Tenable
2 9 (24.32%) Qualys
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Remedy
3 5 (13.51%) Zscaler
4 4 (10.81%) CyberArk
4 4 (10.81%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Citrix
5 3 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (8.11%) Rapid7
5 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.11%) Splunk
6 1 (2.70%) Clearswift
6 1 (2.70%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.70%) Tanium
6 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro