Nessus Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 545 600
Rank change year-on-year +95 +55 +178
Permanent jobs citing Nessus 13 33 63
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.098% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.85% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 56
10th Percentile £40,625 £35,185 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £48,661 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,277
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.54% +1.43%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile - £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £46,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.50% - +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,405 3,901 6,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.36% 11.54% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 2,952 4,688
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

Nessus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Nessus trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Nessus
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Nessus.

Nessus salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Nessus over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Nessus salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (15.38%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (23.08%) IBM Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) FTP
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
2 2 (15.38%) SSH
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.69%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Malware Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) EDI
1 2 (15.38%) LAMP
1 2 (15.38%) Loki
1 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (15.38%) Life Science
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 4 (30.77%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Network Design
5 2 (15.38%) Compliance Management
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) AWK
2 2 (15.38%) C
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Korn
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) CISA
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) GIAC
2 2 (15.38%) ISACA
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
2 2 (15.38%) SANS
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) CEH
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) NCSC
3 2 (15.38%) GRC
3 2 (15.38%) JSP 440
3 2 (15.38%) NIST
4 1 (7.69%) GDPR
4 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) KVM
1 2 (15.38%) Postfix
1 2 (15.38%) Sendmail
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Nmap
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Tenable
2 5 (38.46%) IBM
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (7.69%) FireEye
5 1 (7.69%) Netskope
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk