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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 452 509
Rank change year-on-year -58 +57 +111
Contract jobs citing Nessus 73 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.34% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 20 30
10th Percentile £365 £400 £413
25th Percentile £416 £506 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £825
90th Percentile £641 - £938
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +26.32%
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 5,463 3,976 4,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.00% 15.47% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 2,625 3,347
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 41 142
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.65 £85.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -35 31 £500 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire - 22 £450 - 6
London -27 18 £500 -11.11%
South East -33 14 £475 -26.92% 3
North West -27 9 £620 +55.00% 1
West Midlands -54 5 £350 - 1
Midlands -64 5 £350 - 2
South West -23 4 £450 +12.43% 1
East of England -23 1 £450 - 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 1 (1.37%) Confluence
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) Azure
2 14 (19.18%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) GCP
3 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (5.48%) IaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon Macie
6 3 (4.11%) Cloudflare
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.11%) OpenDNS
6 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.74%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.74%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.74%) Route 53
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Firewall
2 7 (9.59%) DNS
3 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.48%) SSL
5 3 (4.11%) VPN
5 3 (4.11%) Wireless
6 2 (2.74%) Internet
6 2 (2.74%) Intranet
6 2 (2.74%) Network Security
6 2 (2.74%) VLAN
7 1 (1.37%) Anycast
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.37%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.37%) MPLS
7 1 (1.37%) NGFW
7 1 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.37%) OSPF
7 1 (1.37%) Skype
7 1 (1.37%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (34.25%) JIRA
2 10 (13.70%) Burp Suite
3 9 (12.33%) Metasploit
4 6 (8.22%) sqlmap
5 1 (1.37%) AppScan
5 1 (1.37%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.37%) Snyk
5 1 (1.37%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (43.84%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.74%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Military
5 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Developer
1 20 (27.40%) Python Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Tester
3 10 (13.70%) Penetration Tester
4 8 (10.96%) Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Security Operations Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Compliance Specialist
8 2 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) FastAPI
1 24 (32.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (8.22%) LDAP
3 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) NHS
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
5 1 (1.37%) SCADA
5 1 (1.37%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.37%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.40%) Linux
1 20 (27.40%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.85%) Unix
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.11%) Kali Linux
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.37%) CentOS
7 1 (1.37%) VMS
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.84%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (41.10%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.99%) Agile
4 24 (32.88%) Observability
5 23 (31.51%) Containerisation
6 22 (30.14%) API Development
7 20 (27.40%) Penetration Testing
7 20 (27.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 19 (26.03%) Vulnerability Management
9 16 (21.92%) Cloud Security
10 11 (15.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 11 (15.07%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 11 (15.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 10 (13.70%) OWASP
11 10 (13.70%) Red Team
11 10 (13.70%) SIEM
11 10 (13.70%) Validation
12 9 (12.33%) Incident Response
12 9 (12.33%) ITIL
13 8 (10.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.05%) Python
2 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.33%) Bash
4 3 (4.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.37%) Groovy
5 1 (1.37%) Korn
5 1 (1.37%) Lisp
5 1 (1.37%) Ruby
5 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) CISSP
4 6 (8.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.85%) MCSA
5 5 (6.85%) MCSE
5 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.85%) OSCP
6 4 (5.48%) GPEN
6 4 (5.48%) SANS
7 3 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (4.11%) CCSP
7 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.74%) CEH
8 2 (2.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.74%) GXPN
8 2 (2.74%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.70%) NIST
2 3 (4.11%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.37%) COBIT
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Docker
2 13 (17.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) Squid
4 3 (4.11%) Snort
5 1 (1.37%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.37%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.37%) Postfix
5 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (47.95%) Kubernetes
2 25 (34.25%) Grafana
2 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
3 24 (32.88%) Control-M
3 24 (32.88%) IBM Guardium
4 9 (12.33%) Nmap
5 7 (9.59%) CASB
5 7 (9.59%) Terraform
6 6 (8.22%) Ansible
7 4 (5.48%) Packer
8 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.11%) Nexpose
8 3 (4.11%) OpenVAS
8 3 (4.11%) Suricata
9 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.37%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.37%) SCCM
9 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (63.01%) Tenable
2 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.33%) Splunk
4 8 (10.96%) Qualys
5 6 (8.22%) Cisco
5 6 (8.22%) CyberArk
5 6 (8.22%) Rapid7
6 5 (6.85%) Google
6 5 (6.85%) Remedy
6 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.85%) VMware
7 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.11%) Blue Coat
8 3 (4.11%) Carbon Black
8 3 (4.11%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (4.11%) FireEye
8 3 (4.11%) Sophos
8 3 (4.11%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.74%) Snow
10 1 (1.37%) BeyondTrust