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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 453 503
Rank change year-on-year -38 +50 +132
Contract jobs citing Nessus 71 30 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.35% 0.77% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 30
10th Percentile £338 £400 £411
25th Percentile £413 £538 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £518 £675 £825
90th Percentile £640 - £938
UK median daily rate £469 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -18.43% -4.17% +27.12%
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 5,256 3,909 4,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.40% 15.00% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 2,547 3,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 46 153
10th Percentile £17.11 £13.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -35.50% -19.08%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £75.97 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%

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 February 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 February 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 -5 26 £500 -14.89% 3
North of England -36 22 £460 +14.88% 10
Yorkshire - 20 £450 - 7
South East -37 14 £475 -26.92% 6
West Midlands -41 11 £413 - 1
Midlands -48 11 £413 - 1
South West -14 4 £450 +12.43%
North West -32 2 £620 +55.00% 2
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 (8.45%) Confluence
1 6 (8.45%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) Azure
2 19 (26.76%) AWS
3 15 (21.13%) GCP
4 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (9.86%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (9.86%) AWS KMS
5 7 (9.86%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.86%) Route 53
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.63%) Cloudflare
7 4 (5.63%) IaaS
7 4 (5.63%) OpenDNS
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) Firewall
2 8 (11.27%) DNS
3 6 (8.45%) FTP
3 6 (8.45%) HTTP
3 6 (8.45%) IMAP
3 6 (8.45%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (8.45%) SMTP
3 6 (8.45%) SSH
4 3 (4.23%) VPN
4 3 (4.23%) Wireless
5 2 (2.82%) Internet
5 2 (2.82%) Intranet
5 2 (2.82%) Network Security
5 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.82%) VLAN
6 1 (1.41%) BGP
6 1 (1.41%) MPLS
6 1 (1.41%) OSPF
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
6 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (39.44%) JIRA
2 10 (14.08%) Burp Suite
3 9 (12.68%) Metasploit
4 6 (8.45%) Git
4 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.45%) sqlmap
4 6 (8.45%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.41%) AppScan
5 1 (1.41%) Snyk
General
1 30 (42.25%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.86%) Finance
5 6 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Developer
1 18 (25.35%) Python Developer
2 11 (15.49%) Tester
3 10 (14.08%) Penetration Tester
4 8 (11.27%) Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Security Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Security Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Operations Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Security Operations Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) FastAPI
1 22 (30.99%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (9.86%) LDAP
3 1 (1.41%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Security Posture
2 6 (8.45%) Replication
3 4 (5.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.82%) NHS
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.99%) Linux
2 21 (29.58%) Windows
3 13 (18.31%) Ubuntu
4 6 (8.45%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (8.45%) VMS
5 3 (4.23%) Kali Linux
5 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.41%) CentOS
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 30 (42.25%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (38.03%) Agile
4 22 (30.99%) Observability
5 21 (29.58%) Containerisation
6 20 (28.17%) API Development
7 18 (25.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 17 (23.94%) Cloud Security
8 17 (23.94%) Penetration Testing
9 16 (22.54%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (19.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 12 (16.90%) DevOps
12 11 (15.49%) SIEM
13 10 (14.08%) Incident Response
13 10 (14.08%) OWASP
13 10 (14.08%) Red Team
13 10 (14.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
15 8 (11.27%) Patch Management
16 7 (9.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 41 (57.75%) Python
2 17 (23.94%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.08%) Bash
4 6 (8.45%) Groovy
4 6 (8.45%) SQL
5 4 (5.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.41%) Lisp
6 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Degree
4 7 (9.86%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
6 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 5 (7.04%) OSCP
7 4 (5.63%) CISSP
7 4 (5.63%) GPEN
7 4 (5.63%) SANS
8 3 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.23%) CCSP
8 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.82%) CEH
9 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.82%) CREST Certified
9 2 (2.82%) GXPN
9 2 (2.82%) OSCE
10 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (14.08%) NIST
2 3 (4.23%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.41%) COBIT
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (43.66%) Docker
2 10 (14.08%) Squid
3 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.45%) DFS Replication
4 6 (8.45%) Dovecot
4 6 (8.45%) Postfix
5 4 (5.63%) Snort
6 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.41%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (47.89%) Kubernetes
2 28 (39.44%) Grafana
2 28 (39.44%) Prometheus
3 22 (30.99%) Control-M
3 22 (30.99%) IBM Guardium
4 12 (16.90%) Terraform
5 9 (12.68%) Nmap
6 6 (8.45%) Ansible
6 6 (8.45%) Nexpose
6 6 (8.45%) Proxmox
7 4 (5.63%) Packer
7 4 (5.63%) Suricata
8 3 (4.23%) CASB
8 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.23%) OpenVAS
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (52.11%) Tenable
2 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.68%) Qualys
3 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow
4 8 (11.27%) Cisco
4 8 (11.27%) Rapid7
5 7 (9.86%) Splunk
6 6 (8.45%) Google
6 6 (8.45%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (8.45%) VMware
7 5 (7.04%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.63%) Blue Coat
8 4 (5.63%) Carbon Black
8 4 (5.63%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (5.63%) FireEye
8 4 (5.63%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.23%) Sophos
10 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.82%) Snow
11 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust