Tenable Nessus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Nessus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 598 790
Rank change year-on-year -64 +192 +35
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 41 42 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.10% 0.091%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.91% 0.86% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 29 18 72
10th Percentile - £39,750 £33,145
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,280 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% -10.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,735 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £49,881
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.77% +5.01%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,494 4,891 9,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.12% 11.69% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,131 3,363 7,255
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,200 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.09%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Nessus job vacancy trend in the UK

Nessus
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nessus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nessus

Nessus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
England -70 32 £45,000 -7.69% 16
UK excluding London -81 24 £45,000 -5.26% 21
Work from Home -3 12 £60,000 +18.52% 5
North of England -56 10 £45,000 -14.29% 4
London -14 9 - - 2
Yorkshire -51 9 £45,000 - 2
South East -43 8 £72,500 +52.63% 7
Midlands -44 3 £52,500 +1.23% 1
West Midlands -38 2 £52,500 +1.23% 1
South West - 2 £44,750 - 1
North West -33 1 - - 1
East Midlands -56 1 £37,500 -
Wales - 1 - - 2

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.88%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) TCP/IP
1 10 (24.39%) Wireless
2 6 (14.63%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
3 2 (4.88%) SSH
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 2 (4.88%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.44%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.44%) Modbus
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Burp Suite
1 19 (46.34%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 9 (21.95%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.88%) Military
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Law
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Administrator
1 12 (29.27%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (24.39%) Senior
2 10 (24.39%) Tester
3 9 (21.95%) Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Digital Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Penetration Tester
3 9 (21.95%) Security Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Digital Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Security Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Technical Administrator
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Information Security Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (2.44%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (2.44%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.44%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Security Posture
2 11 (26.83%) Mobile App
3 9 (21.95%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Blog
5 1 (2.44%) CAN bus
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) SCADA
5 1 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 12 (29.27%) Android
3 11 (26.83%) Apple iOS
3 11 (26.83%) Linux
4 10 (24.39%) Mac OS
5 7 (17.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (12.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (9.76%) CentOS
7 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.88%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
3 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Offensive Security
5 10 (24.39%) Coaching
5 10 (24.39%) Collaborative Culture
5 10 (24.39%) Red Team
5 10 (24.39%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (21.95%) API Testing
6 9 (21.95%) Application Security
6 9 (21.95%) Business Strategy
6 9 (21.95%) Business Transformation
6 9 (21.95%) Creative Thinking
6 9 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (21.95%) Ethical Hacking
6 9 (21.95%) Internal Audit
6 9 (21.95%) Purple Team
7 5 (12.20%) DevSecOps
8 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) PowerShell
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) C++
3 2 (4.88%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) C
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Perl
4 1 (2.44%) R
4 1 (2.44%) Ruby
4 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) CHECK Team Member
1 17 (41.46%) CREST Certified
2 13 (31.71%) OSCP
3 9 (21.95%) CCSAM
3 9 (21.95%) CHECK Team Leader
4 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
5 7 (17.07%) Cyber Scheme
6 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
7 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (7.32%) CISSP
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
9 2 (4.88%) CEH
9 2 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (4.88%) GPEN
9 2 (4.88%) GSEC
9 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.44%) GXPN
10 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.44%) GRC
4 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.32%) vSphere
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Nmap
2 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 3 (7.32%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.32%) WSUS
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.20%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Qualys
4 2 (4.88%) Tenable
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Clearswift
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Qualtrics
5 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.44%) Sophos
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk