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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 457 518
Rank change year-on-year -34 +61 +110
Contract jobs citing Nessus 72 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.34% 0.69% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 20 29
10th Percentile £354 £400 £413
25th Percentile £415 £506 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £825
90th Percentile £643 - £938
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +27.66%
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 5,378 3,918 4,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 15.24% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,717 2,567 3,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
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 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 41 145
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £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 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.48 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%

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 27 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 27 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
North of England -36 29 £500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire - 21 £450 - 5
London -28 20 £500 -11.11%
South East -31 14 £475 -26.92% 3
North West -21 8 £620 +55.00% 1
West Midlands -44 7 £350 - 1
Midlands -49 7 £350 - 2
South West -21 4 £450 +12.43% 1
East of England -30 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 3 (4.17%) Confluence
1 3 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 14 (19.44%) GCP
4 7 (9.72%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (5.56%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.56%) IaaS
6 4 (5.56%) Route 53
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon Macie
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.17%) OpenDNS
8 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Firewall
2 9 (12.50%) DNS
3 5 (6.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.56%) SSL
5 3 (4.17%) FTP
5 3 (4.17%) HTTP
5 3 (4.17%) IMAP
5 3 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (4.17%) SMTP
5 3 (4.17%) SSH
5 3 (4.17%) VPN
5 3 (4.17%) Wireless
6 2 (2.78%) Internet
6 2 (2.78%) Intranet
6 2 (2.78%) Network Security
6 2 (2.78%) VLAN
7 1 (1.39%) IPsec
7 1 (1.39%) MPLS
7 1 (1.39%) OSPF
7 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (36.11%) JIRA
2 10 (13.89%) Burp Suite
3 9 (12.50%) Metasploit
4 6 (8.33%) sqlmap
5 3 (4.17%) Git
5 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.17%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.39%) AppScan
6 1 (1.39%) Snyk
General
1 31 (43.06%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.28%) Finance
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Developer
1 19 (26.39%) Python Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Tester
3 10 (13.89%) Penetration Tester
4 8 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Analyst
6 6 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Security Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Security Operations Analyst
10 2 (2.78%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.94%) FastAPI
1 23 (31.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.94%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (4.17%) Replication
5 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) NHS
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.39%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.56%) Linux
1 22 (30.56%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.94%) Unix
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (4.17%) Kali Linux
5 3 (4.17%) VMS
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.39%) CentOS
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) CI/CD
1 31 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (37.50%) Agile
3 23 (31.94%) Observability
4 22 (30.56%) Containerisation
5 21 (29.17%) API Development
6 20 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
7 19 (26.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 18 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 18 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 11 (15.28%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 11 (15.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 11 (15.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 10 (13.89%) OWASP
10 10 (13.89%) Red Team
10 10 (13.89%) SIEM
10 10 (13.89%) Validation
11 9 (12.50%) DevOps
11 9 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 9 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.50%) Bash
4 3 (4.17%) Groovy
4 3 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (4.17%) SQL
5 1 (1.39%) Lisp
5 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) CISSP
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
5 6 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.94%) MCSA
6 5 (6.94%) MCSE
6 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.94%) OSCP
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.56%) GPEN
7 4 (5.56%) SANS
8 3 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.17%) CCSP
8 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.78%) CEH
9 2 (2.78%) CREST Certified
9 2 (2.78%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.89%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.39%) COBIT
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (38.89%) Docker
2 13 (18.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.33%) Squid
4 3 (4.17%) DFS Replication
4 3 (4.17%) Dovecot
4 3 (4.17%) Postfix
4 3 (4.17%) Snort
5 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (36.11%) Grafana
2 26 (36.11%) Prometheus
3 23 (31.94%) Control-M
3 23 (31.94%) IBM Guardium
4 9 (12.50%) Nmap
4 9 (12.50%) Terraform
5 7 (9.72%) CASB
6 6 (8.33%) Ansible
7 4 (5.56%) Packer
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.17%) Nexpose
8 3 (4.17%) OpenVAS
8 3 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 3 (4.17%) Suricata
9 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.39%) SCCM
9 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (59.72%) Tenable
2 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.50%) Splunk
4 8 (11.11%) Qualys
5 7 (9.72%) ServiceNow
6 6 (8.33%) Cisco
6 6 (8.33%) CyberArk
6 6 (8.33%) Rapid7
7 5 (6.94%) Google
7 5 (6.94%) Remedy
7 5 (6.94%) VMware
8 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.17%) Blue Coat
9 3 (4.17%) Carbon Black
9 3 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (4.17%) FireEye
9 3 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (4.17%) Sophos
9 3 (4.17%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.78%) Snow