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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 444 511
Rank change year-on-year -82 +67 +106
Contract jobs citing Nessus 59 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.07% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 30
10th Percentile £369 £400 £413
25th Percentile £424 £450 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £623
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -15.66% +31.05%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £825
90th Percentile £633 £675 £938
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £623
% change year-on-year -9.52% -15.66% +34.59%
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 5,534 3,851 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.50% 15.88% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,638 3,290
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 39 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.58 £22.32 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -50.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £54.06
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.74 £67.65
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 1 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 1 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 -49 22 £560 +21.08% 2
South East -51 14 £475 -17.39% 5
Yorkshire -42 13 £450 -14.29% 2
London -61 11 £500 -1.96% 2
North West -33 9 £620 +55.00%
South West -25 4 £450 +12.43% 3
West Midlands -57 4 £350 - 1
Midlands -70 4 £350 - 2
East of England -28 2 £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 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) GCP
3 8 (13.56%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) IaaS
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.08%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (3.39%) Cloudflare
6 2 (3.39%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.39%) OpenDNS
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.69%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
2 7 (11.86%) DNS
3 5 (8.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.78%) SSL
5 3 (5.08%) Wireless
6 2 (3.39%) Internet
6 2 (3.39%) Intranet
6 2 (3.39%) Network Security
6 2 (3.39%) Skype
7 1 (1.69%) Anycast
7 1 (1.69%) BGP
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.69%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.69%) IPsec
7 1 (1.69%) MPLS
7 1 (1.69%) NGFW
7 1 (1.69%) OSPF
7 1 (1.69%) VPN
7 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Burp Suite
3 3 (5.08%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.69%) AppScan
4 1 (1.69%) Snyk
4 1 (1.69%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (35.59%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Developer
1 14 (23.73%) Python Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Security Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Tester
5 5 (8.47%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.73%) FastAPI
1 14 (23.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (8.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) NHS
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.39%) Smartcard
3 2 (3.39%) YubiKey
4 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Windows
2 16 (27.12%) Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Ubuntu
4 5 (8.47%) Unix
4 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.08%) Kali Linux
6 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.69%) CentOS
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 21 (35.59%) Vulnerability Management
3 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (25.42%) Agile
5 14 (23.73%) API Development
5 14 (23.73%) Observability
5 14 (23.73%) Penetration Testing
6 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.34%) Cloud Security
8 11 (18.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 10 (16.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (15.25%) ITIL
10 9 (15.25%) SIEM
11 8 (13.56%) DevOps
12 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (10.17%) Incident Response
13 6 (10.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 6 (10.17%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.78%) Bash
4 2 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.69%) Korn
5 1 (1.69%) Lisp
5 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) CISSP
4 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
5 6 (10.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (8.47%) Degree
6 5 (8.47%) MCSA
6 5 (8.47%) MCSE
6 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (5.08%) CCSP
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.39%) CEH
8 2 (3.39%) CREST Certified
8 2 (3.39%) SANS
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.69%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (18.64%) NIST
2 3 (5.08%) JSP 440
3 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.69%) COBIT
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) Docker
2 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.39%) Snort
3 2 (3.39%) Squid
4 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (40.68%) Kubernetes
2 14 (23.73%) Control-M
2 14 (23.73%) Grafana
2 14 (23.73%) IBM Guardium
2 14 (23.73%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.86%) CASB
4 6 (10.17%) Ansible
4 6 (10.17%) Terraform
5 4 (6.78%) Nmap
5 4 (6.78%) Packer
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.08%) OpenVAS
7 2 (3.39%) Nexpose
7 2 (3.39%) SCCM
7 2 (3.39%) Suricata
7 2 (3.39%) WSUS
8 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (64.41%) Tenable
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.25%) Qualys
4 8 (13.56%) Splunk
5 6 (10.17%) CyberArk
5 6 (10.17%) Rapid7
5 6 (10.17%) Remedy
6 5 (8.47%) Cisco
6 5 (8.47%) VMware
7 4 (6.78%) Google
8 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (5.08%) Sophos
9 2 (3.39%) Blue Coat
9 2 (3.39%) Carbon Black
9 2 (3.39%) FireEye
9 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.39%) Snow
9 2 (3.39%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.69%) Trend Micro