Nessus Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Tenable Nessus
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Nessus 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% - 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.96% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £616 - -
25th Percentile £625 - £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.86%
75th Percentile £648 - £560
90th Percentile £654 - -
North West median daily rate £641 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +60.25% -25.93% +2.86%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 204 170 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.18% 16.75% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 109 164
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 9
10th Percentile - - £36.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile £68.25 - £86.00
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.74% -27.26% +8.66%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in Manchester

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Nessus

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Log Correlation
2 3 (75.00%) Ticket Management
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Discovery
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
1 3 (75.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos