Nessus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tenable Nessus
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Nessus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Nessus over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 408 473
Rank change year-on-year +46 +65 -79
Contract jobs citing Nessus 33 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.44% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 19
10th Percentile £359 £325 £233
25th Percentile £500 £408 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £825 £484 £588
90th Percentile £923 £609 £626
UK median daily rate £575 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +25.41% -3.47% -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Nessus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,297 3,437 4,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 15.00% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 2,498 2,979
10th Percentile £213 £292 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 125 120
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.81
Median hourly rate £34.25 £40.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +102.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £72.21 £75.30 £50.84
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £52.93 £21.89
% change year-on-year -48.98% +141.78% -45.28%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nessus in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Nessus in the UK excluding London

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +35 23 £800 +93.94% 5
North of England +31 5 £569 +26.39% 2
Yorkshire +25 5 £569 +26.39% 1
East of England - 3 £600 - 2
Scotland +33 1 £425 -2.86%
Wales +17 1 £690 +15.00%
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) Firewall
2 12 (36.36%) Network Security
3 11 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (15.15%) DHCP
4 5 (15.15%) DNS
5 4 (12.12%) NAS
5 4 (12.12%) SAN
5 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
6 3 (9.09%) WAN
7 2 (6.06%) LAN
7 2 (6.06%) VLAN
7 2 (6.06%) Wireless
8 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (27.27%) MySQL
3 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) AppScan
2 5 (15.15%) Burp Suite
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) MSI
3 1 (3.03%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 7 (21.21%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Electronics
5 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Security Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Network Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Network Security Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Site Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Head of Information
6 3 (9.09%) Head of Information Security
6 3 (9.09%) Head of Operations
6 3 (9.09%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.03%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Security Posture
2 6 (18.18%) PKI
3 5 (15.15%) Public Cloud
4 4 (12.12%) Fat Client
4 4 (12.12%) Thin Client
5 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (3.03%) Clustering
6 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Linux
3 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 7 (21.21%) Change Control
2 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
2 7 (21.21%) Time Management
3 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
4 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Information Security
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) OWASP
4 5 (15.15%) Project Management
4 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (12.12%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
5 4 (12.12%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 11 (33.33%) CCNP
3 11 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (21.21%) CISM
5 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 3 (9.09%) Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.03%) CEH
8 1 (3.03%) CISSP
8 1 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (3.03%) GCIH
8 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.21%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (15.15%) Docker
5 3 (9.09%) vSphere
6 2 (6.06%) XenApp
7 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) WSUS
3 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (15.15%) Grafana
4 5 (15.15%) Graylog
4 5 (15.15%) HP Fortify
4 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (15.15%) Puppet
4 5 (15.15%) vCenter Server
4 5 (15.15%) WebInspect
4 5 (15.15%) ZABBIX
5 4 (12.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (9.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (9.09%) SCCM
7 2 (6.06%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Cisco
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 11 (33.33%) Juniper
3 11 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 11 (33.33%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (30.30%) VMware
5 8 (24.24%) Splunk
6 5 (15.15%) Checkmarx
6 5 (15.15%) Qualys
6 5 (15.15%) Veracode
7 4 (12.12%) Oracle
7 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
7 4 (12.12%) Veeam
8 2 (6.06%) Avaya
8 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
8 2 (6.06%) Citrix
8 2 (6.06%) SAP
9 1 (3.03%) Apple
9 1 (3.03%) Dell
9 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint