Nessus Contracts in the North West

Tenable Nessus
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 146
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 +44
Contract jobs citing Nessus 8 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.79% 3.13% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 0
10th Percentile £471 £485 -
25th Percentile £507 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% - -
75th Percentile £630 £520 -
90th Percentile £645 £555 -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.56%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 287 256 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.07% 10.69% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 180 346
10th Percentile £230 £212 £325
25th Percentile £350 £361 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £594
90th Percentile £667 £650 £681
England median daily rate £510 £525 £572
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.22% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 46
10th Percentile £48.54 £27.55 £17.00
25th Percentile £62.86 £29.50 £22.20
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% +8.66% +116.40%
75th Percentile £84.69 £48.75 £46.80
90th Percentile £88.18 £81.90 £64.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.08 £52.50
% change year-on-year +56.77% -33.18% +133.33%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nessus in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Nessus in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cheshire -18 3 £630 +23.53%
Cumbria - 3 £501 - 4
Manchester +7 2 £612 +25.54% 3
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
4 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (37.50%) MCSA
2 3 (37.50%) MCSE
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) CASB
2 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
2 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Qualys
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
1 4 (50.00%) Tenable
2 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) Tanium
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
4 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
4 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
4 1 (12.50%) Rapid7