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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 816 829
Rank change year-on-year +147 +13 +275
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 42 79 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.080% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 0.80% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 18 65 129
10th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £53,735 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £58,675 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.31% +6.68% +15.79%

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 5,623 9,841 14,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 9.92% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 7,085 9,027
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 16 May 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 16 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
England +120 37 £47,000 -21.67% 58
UK excluding London +179 34 £45,000 -23.31% 43
Work from Home +104 14 £50,000 -16.67% 50
Midlands +76 14 £50,000 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +69 14 £50,000 +14.29% 4
London +94 13 £60,000 -14.33% 23
South East +87 8 £47,500 -32.14% 20
East of England +46 4 £42,085 -29.86% 5
North of England +39 4 £50,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +42 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +65 2 £45,000 -25.00% 1
North West -3 2 £55,000 +18.92% 1
Scotland +111 1 £37,500 -31.82% 2
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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) AWS
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
2 8 (19.05%) AWS KMS
2 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (16.67%) Serverless
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (7.14%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (52.38%) Firewall
2 10 (23.81%) SSL
3 5 (11.90%) DNS
4 4 (9.52%) HTTP
4 4 (9.52%) VPN
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (7.14%) FTP
5 3 (7.14%) SSH
5 3 (7.14%) Wireshark
6 2 (4.76%) DHCP
6 2 (4.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (4.76%) SAN
7 1 (2.38%) IMAP
7 1 (2.38%) Internet
7 1 (2.38%) NAS
7 1 (2.38%) Network Security
7 1 (2.38%) SMTP
7 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.14%) MySQL
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Burp Suite
1 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.05%) Metasploit
3 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (9.52%) Vagrant
5 3 (7.14%) AppScan
6 2 (4.76%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) JIRA
7 1 (2.38%) Maven
7 1 (2.38%) Postman
7 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Local Government
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Police
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Security Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Security Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Tester
8 2 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Malware Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Security Tester
9 1 (2.38%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) EDI
1 2 (4.76%) LAMP
1 2 (4.76%) LDAP
1 2 (4.76%) Loki
1 2 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (2.38%) JWT
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.38%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.90%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.52%) Replication
4 3 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.76%) Life Science
5 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.38%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) PKI
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 10 (23.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (9.52%) CentOS
4 4 (9.52%) Kali Linux
4 4 (9.52%) VMS
5 2 (4.76%) AIX
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.38%) Debian
6 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (40.48%) Vulnerability Management
3 12 (28.57%) DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) SIEM
4 11 (26.19%) Agile
4 11 (26.19%) ITIL
4 11 (26.19%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Patch Management
7 8 (19.05%) Capacity Management
8 7 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 7 (16.67%) Key Management
8 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
9 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 5 (11.90%) Compliance Management
10 5 (11.90%) Ethical Hacking
10 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
10 5 (11.90%) Server Management
10 5 (11.90%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) Shell Script
3 5 (11.90%) Perl
4 4 (9.52%) Groovy
4 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) AWK
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Korn
6 2 (4.76%) PHP
6 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) CISSP
2 14 (33.33%) Degree
3 13 (30.95%) GIAC
4 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 10 (23.81%) CISM
5 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
6 8 (19.05%) OSCP
7 7 (16.67%) CEH
8 6 (14.29%) SANS
9 5 (11.90%) CISA
9 5 (11.90%) CREST Certified
9 5 (11.90%) ISACA
10 4 (9.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (7.14%) GPEN
11 3 (7.14%) GWAPT
12 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
12 2 (4.76%) CCNA
12 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) NCSC
2 12 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (26.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (23.81%) NIST
5 5 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (11.90%) GRC
5 5 (11.90%) JSP 440
6 4 (9.52%) GDPR
7 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
8 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
9 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (7.14%) Postfix
6 2 (4.76%) KVM
6 2 (4.76%) Sendmail
6 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (2.38%) DFS Replication
7 1 (2.38%) Dovecot
7 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.38%) Squid
7 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 10 (23.81%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Proxmox
4 7 (16.67%) FortiGate
5 5 (11.90%) Nagios
6 3 (7.14%) Grafana
6 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
7 2 (4.76%) OpenVAS
8 1 (2.38%) Nmap
8 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.38%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) QRadar
8 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.95%) Tenable
3 7 (16.67%) Juniper
3 7 (16.67%) Qualys
3 7 (16.67%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) IBM
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco
5 4 (9.52%) Splunk
6 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) Trustwave
7 2 (4.76%) FireEye
7 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.76%) SAP
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.38%) Sophos