Nessus Contracts in London

Tenable Nessus
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Nessus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nessus over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 363 451
Rank change year-on-year +10 +88 +135
Contract jobs citing Nessus 20 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.14% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.96% 1.01% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 10
10th Percentile £400 £425 £415
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +5.31% -9.65%
75th Percentile £544 £598 £566
90th Percentile £625 £635 £650
England median daily rate £491 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.61% +3.00% -

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 2,083 2,284 3,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.41% 14.11% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 1,620 2,771
10th Percentile £331 £337 £375
25th Percentile £423 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £713
90th Percentile £734 £758 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -2.38% -5.41% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 40
10th Percentile £24.80 £20.50 £25.71
25th Percentile £26.45 £22.15 £41.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 £25.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -60.16% +162.44%
75th Percentile £57.69 £60.00 £80.63
90th Percentile £62.73 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £36.83 £49.52
% change year-on-year +47.97% -25.62% +115.30%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in London

Nessus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nessus in London.

Daily rate trend for Nessus in London

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in London

Nessus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nessus in London.

Hourly rate trend for Nessus in London

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the London region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
South London - 6 £475 -
Central London 0 3 £525 - 2
East London +12 1 £495 -8.33%
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Confluence
1 6 (30.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (30.00%) AWS KMS
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (30.00%) Route 53
3 6 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
6 2 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (10.00%) OpenDNS
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) DNS
3 6 (30.00%) FTP
3 6 (30.00%) HTTP
3 6 (30.00%) IMAP
3 6 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (30.00%) SMTP
3 6 (30.00%) SSH
4 4 (20.00%) Network Security
5 2 (10.00%) SSL
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) JIRA
3 6 (30.00%) Git
3 6 (30.00%) Vagrant
4 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
5 1 (5.00%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Ubuntu
2 7 (35.00%) VMS
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) CentOS
5 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Cloud Security
1 11 (55.00%) Penetration Testing
1 11 (55.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Patch Management
4 7 (35.00%) Change Management
4 7 (35.00%) Configuration Management
4 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
8 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) Groovy
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) CISSP
5 2 (10.00%) CEH
6 1 (5.00%) CISM
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
6 1 (5.00%) MCSA
6 1 (5.00%) MCSE
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 8 (40.00%) Squid
3 6 (30.00%) DFS Replication
3 6 (30.00%) Dovecot
3 6 (30.00%) Postfix
4 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) Snort
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Grafana
2 6 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 6 (30.00%) Proxmox
3 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.00%) HP Fortify
4 3 (15.00%) Nexpose
5 2 (10.00%) Suricata
6 1 (5.00%) Ansible
6 1 (5.00%) CASB
6 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Qualys
2 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (40.00%) Tenable
3 6 (30.00%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (20.00%) Splunk
5 3 (15.00%) Google
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
6 2 (10.00%) Blue Coat
6 2 (10.00%) Carbon Black
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco
6 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (10.00%) FireEye
6 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) Remedy
6 2 (10.00%) Tripwire
6 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (5.00%) Tanium
7 1 (5.00%) VMware