Nessus Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Tenable Nessus
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 +11
Contract jobs citing Nessus 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.08% 8.00% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £601
25th Percentile £425 - £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile £475 - £734
90th Percentile - - £759
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £675
% change year-on-year - -33.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 65 25 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.89% 7.25% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 18
10th Percentile £406 £438 £255
25th Percentile £425 £461 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -8.05% -1.14%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £697
90th Percentile £681 £669 £716
East of England median daily rate £475 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +3.20% +2.28% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £18.69 - £14.31
25th Percentile - £66.25 £16.04
Median hourly rate £20.09 £67.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.24% +275.00% -72.52%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £20.19
90th Percentile - - £22.33
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -57.26% +235.71% -25.45%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nessus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Nessus job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Nessus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Nessus

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Stevenage -19 2 £450 -
Nessus
East of England

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Skype
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 2 (100.00%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable