Nessus Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 317 414
Rank change year-on-year +24 +97 +164
Contract jobs citing Nessus 17 18 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 1.06% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 21
10th Percentile £375 £268 -
25th Percentile £425 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £525
90th Percentile £501 £593 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 1,627 1,698 3,523
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.94% 12.90% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,226 2,573
10th Percentile £363 £359 £380
25th Percentile £418 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 70
10th Percentile £39.45 £40.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.75 £48.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £50.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.80% -20.32% +16.20%
75th Percentile £67.00 £55.00 £71.19
90th Percentile £74.50 £56.50 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
1 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.88%) Metasploit
2 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Security Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Security Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) SOC Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (52.94%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (47.06%) Cloud Security
4 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
5 6 (35.29%) Secure Coding
5 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 5 (29.41%) Cryptography
6 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
7 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
7 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
7 4 (23.53%) Server Hardening
7 4 (23.53%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) CEH
3 2 (11.76%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (5.88%) MCSA
4 1 (5.88%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) HIPAA
2 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.76%) NIST
4 1 (5.88%) GRC
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) HP Fortify
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Qualys
2 3 (17.65%) Tenable
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.88%) Remedy
4 1 (5.88%) Tanium