Nessus Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Tenable Nessus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Nessus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 458 671
Rank change year-on-year -99 +213 +21
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 24 34 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.13% 0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 1.26% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 46
10th Percentile £44,100 £37,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,280 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £47,500 £49,881
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -4.77% +5.01%
75th Percentile £54,375 £53,536 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £73,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% -14.58%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,402 2,689 6,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.80% 10.11% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,766 1,673 4,520
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nessus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nessus

Nessus
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
South East -38 9 £72,500 +52.63% 7
North of England -52 9 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire -53 8 £45,000 -
Midlands -47 3 £52,500 +1.23% 1
West Midlands -43 2 £52,500 +1.23% 1
South West - 2 £44,750 - 1
North West -27 1 - - 1
East Midlands -52 1 £37,500 -
Wales - 1 - - 2
Nessus
UK

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) HTTP
3 2 (8.33%) SSH
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
4 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.17%) Modbus
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Metasploit
1 2 (8.33%) Robot Framework
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Military
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Administrator
1 11 (45.83%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (33.33%) Technical Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Information Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Manual Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) CAN bus
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Android
2 10 (41.67%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (33.33%) Mac OS
5 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
6 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
7 4 (16.67%) CentOS
7 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (4.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
5 4 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) OWASP
6 3 (12.50%) Secure Coding
6 3 (12.50%) Security Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) R
3 1 (4.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) OSCP
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CEH
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) GSEC
4 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.33%) NIST
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.17%) GRC
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) vSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 3 (12.50%) WSUS
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Nmap
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Qualys
4 2 (8.33%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Clearswift
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Qualtrics
5 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) Sophos
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk