Nessus Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Nessus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Nessus over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 444 576
Rank change year-on-year +121 +132 -115
Contract jobs citing Nessus 14 23 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.090% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.85% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 33
10th Percentile £334 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £369 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £457 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% -12.54% +1.95%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £905 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £590 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +26.88% +3.33% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Nessus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,638 4,243 7,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.81% 16.59% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 3,133 5,385
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.22%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 78 50
10th Percentile £21.49 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £37.71 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

Nessus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Nessus trend for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Nessus.

Nessus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Nessus over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Nessus daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) LAN
3 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) WAN
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) AppScan
2 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Multimedia
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Security Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Information
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Security
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Information Security
2 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) OWASP
4 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Business Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) Cryptography
5 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 2 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CISM
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (14.29%) CCNP
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CREST Certified
4 2 (14.29%) CSSLP
4 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.14%) GCIH
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
3 2 (14.29%) COBIT
3 2 (14.29%) ISO 22301
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
3 2 (14.29%) XenApp
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (14.29%) Nmap
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
1 2 (14.29%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Graylog
2 1 (7.14%) HP Fortify
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Qualys
3 4 (28.57%) Splunk
4 3 (21.43%) Citrix
5 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 2 (14.29%) Juniper
5 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 1 (7.14%) Apple
6 1 (7.14%) Avaya
6 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
6 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (7.14%) ForeScout
6 1 (7.14%) HP
6 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
6 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
6 1 (7.14%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.14%) Veracode