Nessus Contracts in the South West

Tenable Nessus
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Nessus 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% - 0.083%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.30% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile £375 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile £489 - £569
90th Percentile £496 - £588
England median daily rate £500 £590 £475
% change year-on-year -15.25% +24.21% +5.56%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 407 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.22% 12.75% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 312 497
10th Percentile £305 £205 £323
25th Percentile £436 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 19
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.25
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £84.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.92% -50.45% +155.81%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in the South West

Nessus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Nessus in the South West

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wiltshire - 2 £493 - 4
Bristol - 1 £400 - 2
Somerset - 1 £400 -
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Server Hardening
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Dell