Nessus Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 332 454
Rank change year-on-year +35 +122 +128
Contract jobs citing Nessus 7 13 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.085% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 0.79% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 19
10th Percentile £385 £325 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -7.46%
75th Percentile £483 £606 £600
90th Percentile £516 £938 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £590 £459
% change year-on-year -13.14% +28.68% +1.89%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Nessus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Nessus trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Nessus.

Nessus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 2 (28.57%) Metasploit
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Snyk
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
3 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Fortify
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Nmap
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable