Nessus Job Trends in England

Tenable Nessus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Nessus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 630 621
Rank change year-on-year +59 -9 +259
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 34 46 63
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.065% 0.096% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.84% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 58
10th Percentile £44,100 £39,501 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £46,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,251 £47,896
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.01% -16.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,000 £69,443
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,198 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,251 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,613 5,477 6,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.87% 11.42% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,683 3,349 5,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Nessus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Nessus job vacancy trend in England

Nessus
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Nessus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Nessus

Nessus
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Nessus in England

Nessus
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +54 12 £75,000 +15.38% 2
South East +30 9 £67,500 +20.00% 11
Midlands +13 8 £52,500 +2.44% 2
West Midlands +11 7 £52,500 +2.44% 1
North of England +24 3 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire -5 3 £45,000 -14.29% 1
South West - 2 £44,750 -
East Midlands -8 1 £37,500 - 1
Nessus
UK

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) nginx
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) AWS
3 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) AWS KMS
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (11.76%) Route 53
5 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.82%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) DNS
2 7 (20.59%) HTTP
2 7 (20.59%) Wireless
3 6 (17.65%) SSH
4 5 (14.71%) VPN
5 4 (11.76%) FTP
5 4 (11.76%) IMAP
5 4 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (11.76%) SMTP
5 4 (11.76%) VLAN
6 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.88%) WAN
7 1 (2.94%) DHCP
7 1 (2.94%) DMZ
7 1 (2.94%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.94%) Network Security
7 1 (2.94%) SAN
7 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
2 6 (17.65%) Burp Suite
2 6 (17.65%) Metasploit
3 5 (14.71%) Git
4 4 (11.76%) Vagrant
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) Robot Framework
5 2 (5.88%) Selenium
5 2 (5.88%) TestRail
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Military
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Security Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 7 (20.59%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Senior Security Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Administrator
4 6 (17.65%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (14.71%) Digital Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Network Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Network Security Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Security Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Administrator
7 3 (8.82%) Tester
8 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Security Posture
2 6 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (14.71%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.76%) Replication
5 3 (8.82%) PKI
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 12 (35.29%) Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (11.76%) Android
5 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
5 4 (11.76%) VMS
6 3 (8.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
3 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 8 (23.53%) Business Strategy
4 8 (23.53%) SIEM
4 8 (23.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
5 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.59%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (17.65%) DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) Offensive Security
6 6 (17.65%) Red Team
6 6 (17.65%) Security Operations
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
3 10 (29.41%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) Groovy
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) OSCP
3 7 (20.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 6 (17.65%) CHECK Team Member
4 6 (17.65%) CREST Certified
4 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) CCSAM
5 5 (14.71%) CHECK Team Leader
5 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (11.76%) Degree
6 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.82%) CISSP
7 3 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (8.82%) MCP
7 3 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (5.88%) CEH
8 2 (5.88%) GSEC
8 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.71%) NIST
3 4 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (8.82%) GDPR
5 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.94%) GRC
6 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.76%) DFS Replication
3 4 (11.76%) Dovecot
3 4 (11.76%) Postfix
3 4 (11.76%) Squid
3 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Proxmox
2 6 (17.65%) Grafana
2 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 6 (17.65%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) WSUS
4 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) QRadar
4 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) Nmap
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Tenable
3 5 (14.71%) Qualys
3 5 (14.71%) VMware
4 4 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (11.76%) Rapid7
4 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.82%) IBM
6 2 (5.88%) ArcSight
6 2 (5.88%) Aruba
6 2 (5.88%) Carbon Black
6 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.88%) Splunk
7 1 (2.94%) Censornet
7 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.94%) Sophos
7 1 (2.94%) Stonesoft