Nessus Contracts

Tenable Nessus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 551 649
Rank change year-on-year +61 +98 +100
Contract jobs citing Nessus 29 49 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.95% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 42
10th Percentile £400 £398 £325
25th Percentile £450 £475 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £459
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +28.68% +1.89%
75th Percentile £613 £813 £584
90th Percentile £675 £911 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £695 £450
% change year-on-year -28.06% +54.44% +12.50%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nessus.

Hourly rate trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Top 12 Contract 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 30 April 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 +45 29 £500 -15.25% 25
UK excluding London +45 21 £500 -28.06% 24
South East +30 9 £575 -28.13% 7
Work from Home +44 7 £450 -21.74% 35
South West - 5 £401 - 8
London +22 4 £510 -7.27% 6
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 1
East of England +33 2 £450 -33.33% 1
North of England +25 2 £463 -18.68% 3
Yorkshire +11 1 £525 -7.69%
North West - 1 £400 - 3

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) SaaS
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.34%) IaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Cohesity
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) DHCP
3 4 (13.79%) Network Security
4 3 (10.34%) Firewall
5 2 (6.90%) HTTP
5 2 (6.90%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (6.90%) SAN
5 2 (6.90%) Skype
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 2 (6.90%) VLAN
6 1 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Maven
2 2 (6.90%) Metasploit
2 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Snyk
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Senior
3 8 (27.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) IT Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) LDAP
1 2 (6.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (24.14%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Smartcard
3 2 (6.90%) YubiKey
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 11 (37.93%) Ubuntu
4 9 (31.03%) CentOS
5 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.90%) Debian
8 1 (3.45%) Kali Linux
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (31.03%) DevSecOps
3 8 (27.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 7 (24.14%) Application Packaging
4 7 (24.14%) Change Control
4 7 (24.14%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (24.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
6 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (13.79%) Patch Management
7 4 (13.79%) Server Management
7 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (10.34%) Ethical Hacking
8 3 (10.34%) Security Hardening
8 3 (10.34%) SIEM
9 2 (6.90%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) CEH
4 3 (10.34%) CISSP
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) CISM
5 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) vSphere
3 4 (13.79%) Docker
4 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) vCenter Server
3 8 (27.59%) Ansible
4 5 (17.24%) WSUS
5 4 (13.79%) SCCM
6 2 (6.90%) Puppet
7 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (3.45%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (3.45%) Nmap
7 1 (3.45%) Packer
7 1 (3.45%) vMotion
7 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Tenable
3 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
5 5 (17.24%) Qualys
6 2 (6.90%) Sophos
6 2 (6.90%) Tripwire
7 1 (3.45%) Dell
7 1 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (3.45%) Rapid7