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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 501 609
Rank change year-on-year -18 +108 +161
Contract jobs citing Nessus 48 66 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 1.26% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 41
10th Percentile £405 £255 £325
25th Percentile £450 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £623 £635 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +8.11%

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 5,194 5,251 8,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.67% 13.38% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,423 3,719 5,714
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £407 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 75 172
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.56 £23.99 £26.69
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.58 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.22 £74.26 £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.13% -15.01% +130.90%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +14 46 £488 -2.50% 38
UK excluding London -19 28 £493 -1.50% 29
Work from Home +22 17 £475 -5.00% 28
London +6 15 £491 -9.86% 13
North of England -13 9 £564 +2.59% 8
North West -3 8 £604 +20.70% 7
South West +32 6 £443 -30.59% 3
West Midlands -2 6 £450 - 2
Midlands -4 6 £450 - 4
South East +4 4 £500 +88.24% 6
East of England +6 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -11 1 £525 -7.69% 1

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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
1 5 (10.42%) nginx
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) GitHub
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (10.42%) AWS KMS
4 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.42%) Route 53
4 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) Cohesity
6 3 (6.25%) IaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) DNS
1 12 (25.00%) Firewall
2 9 (18.75%) Network Security
3 6 (12.50%) SSL
3 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.42%) IMAP
4 5 (10.42%) OpenLDAP
4 5 (10.42%) SMTP
5 3 (6.25%) FTP
5 3 (6.25%) HTTP
5 3 (6.25%) Skype
5 3 (6.25%) SSH
6 1 (2.08%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.08%) VSAN
6 1 (2.08%) Wireless
6 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) JIRA
3 5 (10.42%) Git
3 5 (10.42%) GitLab
3 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
3 5 (10.42%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
4 1 (2.08%) Snyk
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (10.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Security Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.25%) Replication
4 3 (6.25%) Smartcard
4 3 (6.25%) YubiKey
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) CSOC
5 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) MISP
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Windows
2 15 (31.25%) Linux
3 8 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 6 (12.50%) Unix
4 6 (12.50%) VMS
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.08%) CentOS
6 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 21 (43.75%) Penetration Testing
3 20 (41.67%) Cloud Security
4 18 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 17 (35.42%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 13 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (22.92%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 10 (20.83%) DevOps
9 10 (20.83%) Incident Response
10 9 (18.75%) Patch Management
11 7 (14.58%) SIEM
12 6 (12.50%) Change Management
12 6 (12.50%) Configuration Management
12 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
12 6 (12.50%) Identity Management
12 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (12.50%) ITIL
12 6 (12.50%) Secure Coding
12 6 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
1 15 (31.25%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) Bash
3 5 (10.42%) Groovy
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) CISSP
4 8 (16.67%) Degree
5 5 (10.42%) CEH
5 5 (10.42%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (10.42%) MCSA
5 5 (10.42%) MCSE
5 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (8.33%) CISM
6 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (4.17%) GIAC
9 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
9 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 1 (2.08%) GCIA
9 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) GDPR
2 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (14.58%) PCI DSS
3 6 (12.50%) NIST
4 5 (10.42%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.08%) GRC
5 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.50%) Squid
3 5 (10.42%) Dovecot
3 5 (10.42%) Postfix
4 3 (6.25%) DFS Replication
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.08%) Snort
6 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) SCCM
3 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) WSUS
4 5 (10.42%) CASB
4 5 (10.42%) Grafana
4 5 (10.42%) HP Fortify
4 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.25%) Ansible
5 3 (6.25%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.17%) QRadar
7 1 (2.08%) Nexpose
7 1 (2.08%) OpenVAS
7 1 (2.08%) Packer
7 1 (2.08%) Suricata
7 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) Qualys
2 19 (39.58%) Tenable
3 10 (20.83%) Splunk
4 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
5 6 (12.50%) CyberArk
5 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 6 (12.50%) Rapid7
5 6 (12.50%) Remedy
6 5 (10.42%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (8.33%) Tanium
8 3 (6.25%) Google
8 3 (6.25%) VMware
9 2 (4.17%) Carbon Black
9 2 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (4.17%) Tripwire
10 1 (2.08%) ArcSight
10 1 (2.08%) FireEye
10 1 (2.08%) LogRhythm
10 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.08%) Zscaler