Nessus Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Nessus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Nessus over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 720 682
Rank change year-on-year +172 -38 +112
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 31 42 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.66% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 57
10th Percentile £36,753 £35,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,280 £43,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,542 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.99% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £49,063 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £53,319 £73,750 £82,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +0.46%

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 3,386 6,382 7,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 8.52% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 4,306 4,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,659
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%
75th Percentile £75,054 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
Midlands +75 13 £50,000 +17.65% 7
West Midlands +66 13 £50,000 +17.65% 7
South East +64 7 £47,500 -32.14% 10
East of England - 5 £42,085 - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 5
Yorkshire +53 2 £45,000 -25.00%
North of England +24 2 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Scotland +122 1 £37,500 -31.82% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Nessus
UK

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon S3
2 10 (32.26%) AWS KMS
2 10 (32.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (19.35%) Azure
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) Route 53
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (61.29%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) SSL
3 5 (16.13%) DNS
4 4 (12.90%) HTTP
4 4 (12.90%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (12.90%) SSH
4 4 (12.90%) Wireshark
5 3 (9.68%) DHCP
5 3 (9.68%) FTP
5 3 (9.68%) IMAP
5 3 (9.68%) SAN
5 3 (9.68%) SMTP
6 2 (6.45%) VLAN
6 2 (6.45%) VPN
7 1 (3.23%) Internet
7 1 (3.23%) IPsec
7 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.23%) Network Security
7 1 (3.23%) SNMP
7 1 (3.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (22.58%) Burp Suite
3 6 (19.35%) Metasploit
3 6 (19.35%) Vagrant
4 5 (16.13%) JIRA
5 4 (12.90%) Git
6 3 (9.68%) AppScan
7 1 (3.23%) GitLab
7 1 (3.23%) Maven
7 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Local Government
3 3 (9.68%) Legal
3 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Police
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Security Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Malware Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Junior Security Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Security Posture
2 4 (12.90%) Replication
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Smartcard
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 12 (38.71%) Ubuntu
3 10 (32.26%) Windows
4 6 (19.35%) VMS
5 4 (12.90%) Kali Linux
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
8 1 (3.23%) CentOS
8 1 (3.23%) Debian
8 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (35.48%) Patch Management
3 10 (32.26%) Vulnerability Management
4 9 (29.03%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Capacity Management
5 8 (25.81%) Cloud Security
5 8 (25.81%) ITIL
6 7 (22.58%) Key Management
6 7 (22.58%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
7 6 (19.35%) Configuration Management
7 6 (19.35%) Incident Response
7 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Change Management
8 5 (16.13%) Server Management
8 5 (16.13%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.90%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Shell Script
3 6 (19.35%) Groovy
4 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) Perl
5 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Degree
2 12 (38.71%) CISSP
3 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
4 10 (32.26%) GIAC
5 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
6 7 (22.58%) CEH
6 7 (22.58%) CISM
6 7 (22.58%) OSCP
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (12.90%) CREST Certified
7 4 (12.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
8 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (9.68%) GPEN
8 3 (9.68%) GWAPT
8 3 (9.68%) SANS
9 2 (6.45%) CISA
9 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (6.45%) ISACA
9 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (22.58%) NCSC
1 7 (22.58%) NIST
2 6 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (6.45%) GRC
3 2 (6.45%) JSP 440
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (25.81%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (22.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (9.68%) DFS Replication
5 3 (9.68%) Dovecot
5 3 (9.68%) Postfix
5 3 (9.68%) Squid
6 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Proxmox
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
4 5 (16.13%) FortiGate
5 3 (9.68%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Nagios
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) OpenVAS
6 2 (6.45%) WSUS
7 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.23%) Nmap
7 1 (3.23%) Puppet
7 1 (3.23%) QRadar
7 1 (3.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Juniper
2 7 (22.58%) Qualys
2 7 (22.58%) Tenable
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.68%) Trustwave
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
6 1 (3.23%) Dell
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) Netskope
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle
6 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.23%) Sophos
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Veeam