Tenable Nessus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 635 759
Rank change year-on-year +113 +124 -131
Contract jobs citing Nessus 51 65 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 0.71% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 62
10th Percentile £362 £325 £255
25th Percentile £452 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.04% -3.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £788 £539 £588
90th Percentile £904 £648 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £645 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +43.33% +2.86% -12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nessus.

Daily rate trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nessus.

Hourly rate trend for Nessus in the UK

Nessus
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +98 49 £583 +22.63% 25
UK excluding London +54 32 £645 +43.33% 18
South East +39 23 £800 +109.84% 6
London +91 18 £525 +4.95% 9
Work from Home +114 13 £500 +10.25% 8
North of England +25 5 £569 +26.39% 2
Yorkshire +24 5 £569 +26.39% 1
East of England - 2 £675 - 2
Scotland +40 1 £425 -2.86%
Wales +20 1 £690 +15.00%

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 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) GitHub
4 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (9.80%) GCP
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.92%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (41.18%) Firewall
2 19 (37.25%) Network Security
3 12 (23.53%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (17.65%) DNS
5 7 (13.73%) DHCP
6 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
7 5 (9.80%) WAN
8 4 (7.84%) LAN
8 4 (7.84%) NAS
8 4 (7.84%) SAN
8 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
9 2 (3.92%) VLAN
9 2 (3.92%) VPN
9 2 (3.92%) Wireless
10 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.61%) MySQL
3 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Burp Suite
2 8 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.73%) GitLab
4 6 (11.76%) AppScan
4 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.88%) Metasploit
6 2 (3.92%) Git
6 2 (3.92%) Subversion
7 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.96%) MSI
7 1 (1.96%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.88%) Banking
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Electronics
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Security Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Network Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Network Security Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Security Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Head of Information
6 3 (5.88%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.96%) LDAP
2 1 (1.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Security Posture
2 8 (15.69%) PKI
3 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
5 4 (7.84%) Fat Client
5 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (7.84%) Thin Client
6 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.96%) Clustering
8 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (37.25%) Windows
2 15 (29.41%) Linux
3 12 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.80%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.88%) Kali Linux
6 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 14 (27.45%) Information Security
3 12 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (21.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
5 10 (19.61%) Incident Response
5 10 (19.61%) Security Operations
5 10 (19.61%) SIEM
6 8 (15.69%) Change Control
6 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
6 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (15.69%) OWASP
6 8 (15.69%) Time Management
7 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Security Monitoring
7 7 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) PowerShell
2 10 (19.61%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) CCNP
3 12 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (21.57%) CISM
5 7 (13.73%) Degree
5 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
6 6 (11.76%) CISSP
7 3 (5.88%) CEH
7 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.88%) GCIH
8 2 (3.92%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.92%) CREST Certified
8 2 (3.92%) CSSLP
8 2 (3.92%) GCIA
8 2 (3.92%) GIAC
8 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.92%) SANS
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) PCI DSS
2 6 (11.76%) NIST
2 6 (11.76%) QA
3 4 (7.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) COBIT
4 2 (3.92%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (11.76%) Docker
5 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.88%) vSphere
6 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Ansible
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Terraform
3 7 (13.73%) WSUS
4 6 (11.76%) Grafana
4 6 (11.76%) Graylog
4 6 (11.76%) HP Fortify
4 6 (11.76%) Progress Chef
4 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (11.76%) Puppet
4 6 (11.76%) WebInspect
5 5 (9.80%) vCenter Server
5 5 (9.80%) ZABBIX
6 4 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (7.84%) Nmap
6 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (5.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (5.88%) QRadar
7 3 (5.88%) SCCM
8 2 (3.92%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (29.41%) Cisco
3 13 (25.49%) VMware
4 12 (23.53%) Juniper
4 12 (23.53%) Palo Alto
5 11 (21.57%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (19.61%) Splunk
7 6 (11.76%) Checkmarx
7 6 (11.76%) Oracle
7 6 (11.76%) Qualys
7 6 (11.76%) Veracode
8 4 (7.84%) Citrix
8 4 (7.84%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (7.84%) Rapid7
8 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
8 4 (7.84%) Veeam
9 2 (3.92%) Avaya
9 2 (3.92%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.92%) HP
9 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds