Nessus Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Tenable Nessus
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 105 109
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing Nessus 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.30% 1.09% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 - -
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £633 - -
England median daily rate £472 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -17.91% -4.17% +26.32%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 434 183 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.48% 11.80% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 118 145
10th Percentile £268 £187 £200
25th Percentile £420 £346 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £525
90th Percentile £650 £688 £648
England median daily rate £505 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -3.99% -2.14% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £43.30 £12.18 -
25th Percentile £54.25 £12.94 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%
75th Percentile £77.38 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the West Midlands

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham - 8 £475 - 1
Solihull - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £617 - 1
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (90.00%) Confluence
1 9 (90.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (90.00%) Route 53
1 9 (90.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (90.00%) FTP
2 9 (90.00%) HTTP
2 9 (90.00%) IMAP
2 9 (90.00%) OpenLDAP
2 9 (90.00%) SMTP
2 9 (90.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) Multicast
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (90.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Ubuntu
2 9 (90.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Change Management
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Groovy
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (90.00%) Azure Certification
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
1 9 (90.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (90.00%) Postfix
1 9 (90.00%) Squid
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Grafana
1 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (90.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (90.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (10.00%) Veeam
2 1 (10.00%) VMware