Nessus Contract Job Trends

Tenable Nessus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 481 546
Rank change year-on-year -34 +65 +170
Contract jobs citing Nessus 67 62 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.15% 1.20% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 29
10th Percentile £411 £400 £405
25th Percentile £421 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +2.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -17.91% +8.49% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,847 5,173 6,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.49% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 3,290 4,473
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 71 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +26.73% -44.78% +75.36%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the UK

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nessus

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nessus

Nessus
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -33 64 £475 -14.41% 13
UK excluding London -45 37 £472 -17.91% 12
London +16 35 £488 -11.36% 4
Work from Home +10 20 £475 -17.39% 5
North of England -34 18 £520 +1.98% 1
West Midlands -17 12 £475 -
Midlands -23 12 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -32 10 £452 -19.64% 1
North West -17 8 £564 +12.85%
South West -16 4 £450 -2.76%
South East -32 2 £413 -28.26% 3
Wales - 1 - - 2

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (16.42%) Confluence
1 11 (16.42%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) Azure
2 21 (31.34%) AWS
3 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 12 (17.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon ELB
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon S3
4 11 (16.42%) AWS KMS
4 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (16.42%) Route 53
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.46%) Cloudflare
7 5 (7.46%) OpenDNS
8 4 (5.97%) IaaS
9 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.99%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (34.33%) Firewall
2 17 (25.37%) DNS
3 11 (16.42%) IMAP
3 11 (16.42%) OpenLDAP
3 11 (16.42%) SMTP
4 10 (14.93%) FTP
4 10 (14.93%) HTTP
4 10 (14.93%) SSH
5 7 (10.45%) TCP/IP
6 6 (8.96%) SSL
7 3 (4.48%) Wireless
8 2 (2.99%) Internet
8 2 (2.99%) Intranet
8 2 (2.99%) Network Security
8 2 (2.99%) VLAN
8 2 (2.99%) VPN
9 1 (1.49%) LAN
9 1 (1.49%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.49%) WAN
9 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.84%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.42%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (16.42%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (35.82%) JIRA
2 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (16.42%) Git
3 11 (16.42%) Vagrant
4 9 (13.43%) Burp Suite
4 9 (13.43%) Metasploit
5 6 (8.96%) sqlmap
6 1 (1.49%) GitLab
6 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.93%) Finance
4 10 (14.93%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Tester
4 9 (13.43%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (13.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Penetration Tester
5 7 (10.45%) Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Python Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Security Operations Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) LDAP
2 11 (16.42%) FastAPI
2 11 (16.42%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Replication
1 10 (14.93%) Security Posture
2 6 (8.96%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.46%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (7.46%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) CSOC
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.78%) Linux
2 27 (40.30%) Windows
3 15 (22.39%) Ubuntu
4 12 (17.91%) VMS
5 11 (16.42%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (10.45%) Unix
7 2 (2.99%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.49%) CentOS
8 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Penetration Testing
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
2 24 (35.82%) Cloud Security
3 23 (34.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 20 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (25.37%) DevOps
5 17 (25.37%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 17 (25.37%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 16 (23.88%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (22.39%) Agile
8 14 (20.90%) Incident Response
8 14 (20.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 14 (20.90%) Security Operations
9 13 (19.40%) Patch Management
10 12 (17.91%) Change Management
10 12 (17.91%) Configuration Management
10 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
10 12 (17.91%) SIEM
11 11 (16.42%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Python
2 21 (31.34%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) Bash
4 11 (16.42%) Groovy
5 5 (7.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) CISSP
3 12 (17.91%) Degree
4 10 (14.93%) AWS Certification
4 10 (14.93%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.96%) CEH
5 6 (8.96%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) OSCP
6 5 (7.46%) MCSA
6 5 (7.46%) MCSE
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (5.97%) GPEN
8 3 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.48%) CCSP
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.48%) CISM
8 3 (4.48%) SANS
9 2 (2.99%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (14.93%) NIST
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (41.79%) Docker
2 16 (23.88%) Squid
3 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
4 11 (16.42%) Dovecot
4 11 (16.42%) Postfix
5 10 (14.93%) DFS Replication
6 5 (7.46%) Snort
7 1 (1.49%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (32.84%) Grafana
1 22 (32.84%) Prometheus
2 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.88%) Terraform
4 11 (16.42%) Control-M
4 11 (16.42%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (14.93%) Proxmox
6 8 (11.94%) Nmap
7 7 (10.45%) CASB
7 7 (10.45%) Nexpose
8 5 (7.46%) Ansible
8 5 (7.46%) Suricata
9 4 (5.97%) Packer
10 3 (4.48%) QRadar
11 1 (1.49%) Check_MK
11 1 (1.49%) HP Fortify
11 1 (1.49%) SCCM
11 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (41.79%) Tenable
2 17 (25.37%) Qualys
3 16 (23.88%) ServiceNow
3 16 (23.88%) Splunk
4 11 (16.42%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
5 9 (13.43%) Cisco
6 7 (10.45%) Palo Alto
6 7 (10.45%) VMware
7 6 (8.96%) CyberArk
7 6 (8.96%) Google
7 6 (8.96%) Remedy
8 5 (7.46%) Blue Coat
8 5 (7.46%) Carbon Black
8 5 (7.46%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (7.46%) FireEye
8 5 (7.46%) Rapid7
8 5 (7.46%) Tanium
8 5 (7.46%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.49%) Fortinet