Nessus Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Nessus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nessus over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 423 579
Rank change year-on-year +104 +156 -107
Contract jobs citing Nessus 19 26 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 30
10th Percentile £275 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £369 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.31% -0.24%
75th Percentile £592 £533 £600
90th Percentile £847 £643 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,667 3,828 7,032
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.28% 16.04% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 2,831 5,254
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.55% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.35% +161.36% -44.30%

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 10 June 2024.

Nessus daily rate 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) Network Security
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (10.53%) DHCP
5 2 (10.53%) VLAN
5 2 (10.53%) Wireless
6 1 (5.26%) VPN
6 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) AppScan
2 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Security Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Information
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Operations
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Security
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Monitoring Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) SIEM Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 8 (42.11%) Information Security
4 7 (36.84%) Incident Response
4 7 (36.84%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (31.58%) Security Operations
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (26.32%) SIEM
7 3 (15.79%) Change Control
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) OWASP
7 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
8 2 (10.53%) Secure Coding
8 2 (10.53%) Threat Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) CISM
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) GCIH
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) CEH
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CISSP
4 2 (10.53%) CREST Certified
4 2 (10.53%) CSSLP
4 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) GCIA
4 2 (10.53%) GIAC
4 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) MCP
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.53%) COBIT
3 2 (10.53%) ISO 22301
3 2 (10.53%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
1 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.79%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.53%) XenApp
5 1 (5.26%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) SCCM
1 3 (15.79%) WSUS
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (10.53%) CSIRT
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (10.53%) QRadar
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Graylog
3 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
3 1 (5.26%) Nmap
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) VMware
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Splunk
3 5 (26.32%) Qualys
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco
5 3 (15.79%) Citrix
6 2 (10.53%) Apple
6 2 (10.53%) Avaya
6 2 (10.53%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.53%) Juniper
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle
6 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
7 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (5.26%) FireEye
7 1 (5.26%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.26%) Netskope
7 1 (5.26%) Okta
7 1 (5.26%) Veracode