Tenable Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Tenable products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tenable over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Tenable Holdings, Inc.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 489 550
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 +118
Contract jobs citing Tenable 88 45 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 26 26
10th Percentile £379 £381 £385
25th Percentile £418 £434 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +10.00% -17.39%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £545
90th Percentile £650 £600 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +3.24% -2.63% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £86.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £62.50

All Vendors
UK

Tenable falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,142 14,815 19,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.58% 45.72% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,996 8,792 12,126
10th Percentile £300 £284 £252
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £714 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 807 433 661
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +66.48%
75th Percentile £46.50 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.51% +95.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Tenable job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tenable over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tenable in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tenable within the UK over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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 -17 77 £478 -8.17% 14
UK excluding London -27 39 £478 +3.24% 10
London +4 38 £500 -6.10% 3
Work from Home +19 34 £480 -4.00% 8
North of England -45 14 £608 +20.35%
South East -8 13 £475 +35.71% 6
Yorkshire - 10 £452 -
Midlands - 7 £450 - 2
North West -27 4 £621 +22.97%
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £375 -
East of England - 3 £550 - 1
Wales - 2 - -
South West -11 1 £550 +37.41% 1

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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:

Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.82%) AWS
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.68%) Mimecast
6 5 (5.68%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
7 4 (4.55%) IaaS
7 4 (4.55%) PaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.41%) Serverless
8 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (28.41%) Firewall
2 15 (17.05%) Network Security
3 8 (9.09%) DNS
4 7 (7.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.82%) SSL
6 4 (4.55%) WAN
7 2 (2.27%) LAN
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) VLAN
7 2 (2.27%) VSAN
8 1 (1.14%) DMZ
8 1 (1.14%) SSH
8 1 (1.14%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.14%) Telnet
8 1 (1.14%) VPN
8 1 (1.14%) Wireless
8 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.41%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.27%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) GitLab
2 2 (2.27%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) Snyk
3 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (29.55%) Finance
2 17 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Security Engineer
2 14 (15.91%) Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Vulnerability Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) FastAPI
1 11 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (9.09%) LDAP
3 5 (5.68%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.41%) Middleware
4 3 (3.41%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.14%) Kafka
5 1 (1.14%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.27%) CSOC
6 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.32%) Windows
2 15 (17.05%) Linux
3 9 (10.23%) Unix
4 7 (7.95%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.41%) Solaris
7 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.14%) VMS
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Vulnerability Management
2 30 (34.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 27 (30.68%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (29.55%) Incident Response
4 26 (29.55%) SIEM
5 25 (28.41%) Security Operations
6 19 (21.59%) CI/CD
6 19 (21.59%) Cloud Security
7 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (19.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 16 (18.18%) Agile
8 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.77%) Security Monitoring
10 12 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
11 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.50%) ITIL
11 11 (12.50%) Observability
11 11 (12.50%) Threat Detection
12 10 (11.36%) SOAR
13 9 (10.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) Python
2 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.09%) Bash
4 3 (3.41%) SQL
5 2 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) CISSP
3 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 15 (17.05%) CEH
5 14 (15.91%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 10 (11.36%) CISM
7 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (7.95%) GIAC
9 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
9 6 (6.82%) Degree
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
10 5 (5.68%) MCSA
10 5 (5.68%) MCSE
11 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.27%) CRISC
12 2 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) NIST
2 11 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.68%) GDPR
5 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
6 3 (3.41%) SLA
7 2 (2.27%) GRC
7 2 (2.27%) JSP 440
8 1 (1.14%) COBIT
8 1 (1.14%) NCSC
8 1 (1.14%) QA
8 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Active Directory
1 13 (14.77%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (32.95%) Nessus
2 16 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.64%) Grafana
3 12 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.50%) Control-M
4 11 (12.50%) IBM Guardium
5 8 (9.09%) SCCM
6 7 (7.95%) CASB
7 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (6.82%) Terraform
8 4 (4.55%) Ansible
8 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (4.55%) WSUS
9 3 (3.41%) Nexpose
9 3 (3.41%) QRadar
10 2 (2.27%) Check_MK
10 2 (2.27%) Puppet
10 2 (2.27%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 27 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (23.86%) Splunk
3 16 (18.18%) Qualys
4 10 (11.36%) Rapid7
5 9 (10.23%) Fortinet
5 9 (10.23%) VMware
6 8 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (9.09%) CyberArk
6 8 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 6 (6.82%) Cisco
7 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.68%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.68%) Remedy
9 3 (3.41%) F5
9 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.41%) Symantec
9 3 (3.41%) Tanium
10 2 (2.27%) Okta
11 1 (1.14%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.14%) Veracode