Nessus Job Trends in the South West

Tenable Nessus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Nessus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 - 208
Rank change year-on-year - - +86
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.041% - 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% - 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £37,275 - £40,000
25th Percentile £39,188 - £43,009
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,750 - £47,593
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.35%
75th Percentile £51,688 - £50,000
90th Percentile £54,425 - £50,300
England median annual salary £63,500 £51,860 £47,500
% change year-on-year +22.44% +9.18% -18.80%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 459 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.20% 10.04% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 254 302 639
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.36% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Nessus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Nessus

Nessus
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the South West over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Nessus in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Devon - 1 £37,000 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £52,500 - 2
Nessus
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware