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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 712 701
Rank change year-on-year +165 -11 +75
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 33 46 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.065% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 0.72% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 37 53
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,280 £42,500 £42,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £53,079 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £53,738 £73,750 £84,000
UK median annual salary £47,000 £59,925 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.57% -0.13% +14.29%

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 3,060 6,403 7,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.86% 9.03% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 4,382 4,427
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £75,781
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,996 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -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 10 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 10 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 +80 13 £52,470 +19.93% 2
West Midlands +67 13 £52,470 +19.93% 2
South East +83 8 £47,500 -20.63% 17
North of England +47 4 £50,000 - 2
East of England +46 4 £42,085 -29.86% 2
Northern Ireland +39 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +58 2 £45,000 -25.00%
North West +4 2 £55,000 +18.92% 2
Scotland +132 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
2 7 (21.21%) AWS KMS
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (21.21%) Serverless
2 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (18.18%) Azure
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) Firewall
2 10 (30.30%) SSL
3 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (9.09%) HTTP
4 3 (9.09%) Wireshark
5 2 (6.06%) DHCP
5 2 (6.06%) FTP
5 2 (6.06%) HTTPS
5 2 (6.06%) Internet
5 2 (6.06%) SAN
5 2 (6.06%) SSH
6 1 (3.03%) NAS
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.09%) MySQL
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (21.21%) Burp Suite
3 6 (18.18%) Metasploit
4 3 (9.09%) AppScan
4 3 (9.09%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (12.12%) Local Government
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Police
4 1 (3.03%) Advertising
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 11 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Malware Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Digital Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Junior Security Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) EDI
1 2 (6.06%) LAMP
1 2 (6.06%) Loki
1 2 (6.06%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.09%) Replication
4 2 (6.06%) Life Science
4 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.06%) PKI
4 2 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Ubuntu
3 7 (21.21%) Windows
4 4 (12.12%) CentOS
4 4 (12.12%) Kali Linux
5 3 (9.09%) VMS
6 2 (6.06%) AIX
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (6.06%) Unix
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
7 1 (3.03%) Debian
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
2 11 (33.33%) ITIL
3 10 (30.30%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
5 8 (24.24%) Capacity Management
5 8 (24.24%) Patch Management
6 7 (21.21%) Key Management
6 7 (21.21%) Risk Management
7 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
7 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) SIEM
8 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
8 5 (15.15%) Compliance Management
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.15%) Problem Management
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Server Management
8 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (15.15%) Perl
4 3 (9.09%) Groovy
4 3 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.09%) Ruby
5 2 (6.06%) AWK
5 2 (6.06%) C
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Korn
5 2 (6.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) CISSP
2 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 13 (39.39%) GIAC
3 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 10 (30.30%) CISM
5 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 7 (21.21%) CEH
6 7 (21.21%) OSCP
7 6 (18.18%) SANS
8 5 (15.15%) CISA
8 5 (15.15%) ISACA
9 4 (12.12%) CREST Certified
9 4 (12.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (9.09%) GPEN
10 3 (9.09%) GWAPT
11 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (3.03%) CCNA
12 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (3.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) NCSC
2 8 (24.24%) NIST
3 7 (21.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (15.15%) GRC
5 5 (15.15%) JSP 440
6 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (3.03%) GDPR
7 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 8 (24.24%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (21.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.06%) KVM
4 2 (6.06%) Postfix
4 2 (6.06%) Sendmail
4 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
3 7 (21.21%) FortiGate
3 7 (21.21%) Proxmox
4 5 (15.15%) Nagios
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) OpenVAS
6 1 (3.03%) Nmap
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
6 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (36.36%) Tenable
3 7 (21.21%) Juniper
3 7 (21.21%) Qualys
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco
4 4 (12.12%) VMware
5 3 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle
5 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.09%) Trustwave
6 2 (6.06%) IBM
6 2 (6.06%) SAP
7 1 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (3.03%) Netskope
7 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.03%) Sophos
7 1 (3.03%) Splunk