Tenable Nessus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 800 838
Rank change year-on-year +156 +38 +252
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 40 85 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 0.85% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17 71 128
10th Percentile £39,250 £34,451 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,280 £42,200 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £53,688 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £59,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Nessus.

Salary trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nessus over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Top 14 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 30 April 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
England +150 35 £47,500 -20.83% 25
UK excluding London +188 33 £45,000 -10.00% 24
Midlands +71 13 £52,470 +74.90% 1
West Midlands +61 13 £52,470 +74.90% 1
Work from Home +159 12 £50,000 -16.67% 35
London +92 12 £53,250 -23.93% 6
South East +94 8 £47,500 -4.77% 7
North of England +71 4 £50,000 - 3
East of England +61 4 £42,085 -29.86% 1
Northern Ireland +37 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +67 2 £45,000 -25.00%
North West +23 2 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Scotland +128 1 £37,500 -31.82%
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
1 12 (30.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (17.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
2 7 (17.50%) AWS KMS
2 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (17.50%) Serverless
2 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) Firewall
2 10 (25.00%) SSL
3 4 (10.00%) DNS
3 4 (10.00%) VPN
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (7.50%) HTTP
4 3 (7.50%) Wireshark
5 2 (5.00%) DHCP
5 2 (5.00%) FTP
5 2 (5.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (5.00%) Internet
5 2 (5.00%) SAN
5 2 (5.00%) SSH
6 1 (2.50%) NAS
6 1 (2.50%) Network Security
6 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Burp Suite
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.00%) Metasploit
3 7 (17.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (7.50%) AppScan
4 3 (7.50%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.50%) Git
5 1 (2.50%) JIRA
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Local Government
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Security Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior
6 4 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Tester
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Malware Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Security Tester
9 1 (2.50%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) EDI
1 2 (5.00%) LAMP
1 2 (5.00%) Loki
1 2 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) JWT
2 1 (2.50%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.50%) Replication
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (22.50%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.00%) CentOS
4 4 (10.00%) Kali Linux
5 3 (7.50%) VMS
6 2 (5.00%) AIX
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (5.00%) Unix
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.50%) Debian
7 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (42.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 11 (27.50%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) ITIL
3 11 (27.50%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (27.50%) SIEM
4 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Capacity Management
6 8 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 7 (17.50%) Key Management
7 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
8 6 (15.00%) Cloud Security
8 6 (15.00%) Incident Response
9 5 (12.50%) Compliance Management
9 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.50%) Problem Management
9 5 (12.50%) Server Management
9 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (12.50%) Perl
4 3 (7.50%) Groovy
4 3 (7.50%) Java
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Ruby
5 2 (5.00%) AWK
5 2 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (5.00%) C
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Korn
5 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) CISSP
2 14 (35.00%) Degree
3 13 (32.50%) GIAC
4 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
5 10 (25.00%) CISM
6 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
7 8 (20.00%) OSCP
8 7 (17.50%) CEH
9 6 (15.00%) SANS
10 5 (12.50%) CISA
10 5 (12.50%) CREST Certified
10 5 (12.50%) ISACA
11 4 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (7.50%) GPEN
12 3 (7.50%) GWAPT
13 2 (5.00%) CCNA
13 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) NCSC
2 11 (27.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (27.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (27.50%) NIST
3 5 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (12.50%) GRC
3 5 (12.50%) JSP 440
4 4 (10.00%) GDPR
5 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
7 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (17.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.00%) KVM
5 2 (5.00%) Postfix
5 2 (5.00%) Sendmail
5 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Terraform
2 10 (25.00%) Ansible
3 7 (17.50%) FortiGate
3 7 (17.50%) Proxmox
4 5 (12.50%) Nagios
5 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.00%) Grafana
6 2 (5.00%) OpenVAS
7 1 (2.50%) Nmap
7 1 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (2.50%) QRadar
7 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) Tenable
3 7 (17.50%) Juniper
3 7 (17.50%) Qualys
4 6 (15.00%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco
5 4 (10.00%) IBM
5 4 (10.00%) Splunk
6 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) Trustwave
7 2 (5.00%) FireEye
7 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.00%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.50%) Google
8 1 (2.50%) Netskope
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Sophos