Nessus Contract Job Trends in London

Tenable Nessus
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 349 380
Rank change year-on-year -61 +31 +79
Contract jobs citing Nessus 6 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.032% 0.049% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.31% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 19
10th Percentile £518 £441 £413
25th Percentile £525 £481 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -1.75% -0.05%
75th Percentile £575 £527 £616
90th Percentile £590 £544 £637
England median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% -3.20% +2.56%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,600 1,910 2,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.80% 15.56% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,783 1,284 1,672
10th Percentile £356 £358 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.97% +60.26% -62.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £58.72 £42.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +38.98% +37.40% -41.90%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in London

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Nessus

Nessus
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Nessus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Nessus

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) OWASP
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Qualys
1 4 (66.67%) Tenable
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk