Nessus Contract Job Trends in the South East

Tenable Nessus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 151 189
Rank change year-on-year -35 +38 +50
Contract jobs citing Nessus 3 19 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.069% 0.51% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 3.85% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 11
10th Percentile £416 £253 £356
25th Percentile £430 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.22% - +74.24%
75th Percentile £485 £675 £919
90th Percentile £499 - £938
England median daily rate £488 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -13.72% -1.74% +7.98%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 623 494 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.25% 13.27% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 366 468
10th Percentile £255 £260 £205
25th Percentile £383 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £567 £608 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.97 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +14.87%
75th Percentile £80.00 £36.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £86.00 £37.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.31% -40.99% +31.94%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the South East

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Nessus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Nessus

Nessus
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Nessus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Nessus

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Berkshire - 2 £413 - 1
Thames Valley - 2 £413 - 1
Hampshire -30 1 £505 -22.31% 3
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Intranet
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 2 (66.67%) OSINT
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Red Team
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Social Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) SANS
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware