Nessus Contract Job Trends in the South West

Tenable Nessus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 120 142
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing Nessus 4 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 2.17% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £401 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
England median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%

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 381 323 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.97% 15.81% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 208 306
10th Percentile £343 £330 £306
25th Percentile £450 £436 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £695 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £734 £738
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £53.85 - £19.35
25th Percentile £74.63 £12.50 £49.13
Median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +437.50% -77.93% +11.54%
75th Percentile £119.00 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile - £74.26 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the South West

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 29 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
Wiltshire -15 4 £450 -40.00%
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (100.00%) IaaS
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Packer
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware