Nessus Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 332 429 575
Rank change year-on-year +97 +146 -110
Contract jobs citing Nessus 13 28 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.088% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 0.70% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 29
10th Percentile £325 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £369 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.95% -
75th Percentile £603 £564 £615
90th Percentile £938 £650 £701
UK median daily rate £575 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +25.41% -3.47% -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,627 4,014 7,170
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.07% 16.37% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 2,971 5,342
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.44% +8.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 76 47
10th Percentile £20.98 £25.36 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.67 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +88.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £76.13 £62.38
90th Percentile £63.25 £87.50 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £52.93 £21.89
% change year-on-year -48.98% +141.78% -45.28%

Nessus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Nessus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Nessus trend for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Nessus.

Nessus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Nessus over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Nessus daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) Network Security
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.69%) VLAN
5 1 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) AppScan
2 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Multimedia
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Head of Information
3 2 (15.38%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Head of Operations
3 2 (15.38%) Head of Security
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) OWASP
4 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
4 3 (23.08%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Cryptography
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Code Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CISM
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CCNP
4 2 (15.38%) CEH
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) CREST Certified
4 2 (15.38%) CSSLP
4 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.69%) GCIH
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) COBIT
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 22301
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (15.38%) Nmap
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Graylog
2 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) QRadar
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Qualys
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
3 3 (23.08%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Apple
5 1 (7.69%) Avaya
5 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (7.69%) ForeScout
5 1 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
5 1 (7.69%) ScienceLogic
5 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Veracode