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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 431 580
Rank change year-on-year +100 +149 -101
Contract jobs citing Nessus 18 28 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.09% 0.72% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 29
10th Percentile £268 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £594 £540 £600
90th Percentile £873 £650 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -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 1,648 3,906 7,095
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.25% 16.11% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 2,893 5,298
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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 2 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) Network Security
3 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 3 (16.67%) LAN
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (11.11%) DHCP
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 2 (11.11%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) AppScan
2 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Head of Information
3 2 (11.11%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (11.11%) Head of Operations
3 2 (11.11%) Head of Security
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 7 (38.89%) Information Security
2 7 (38.89%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (22.22%) SIEM
5 3 (16.67%) Change Control
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) OWASP
5 3 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
6 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISM
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) CEH
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) CREST Certified
3 2 (11.11%) CSSLP
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) GCIH
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) GCIA
4 1 (5.56%) GIAC
4 1 (5.56%) MCP
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.11%) COBIT
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 22301
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) XenApp
5 1 (5.56%) Docker
5 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
1 3 (16.67%) WSUS
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (11.11%) Nmap
2 2 (11.11%) QRadar
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) CSIRT
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Graylog
3 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Splunk
3 5 (27.78%) Qualys
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
5 3 (16.67%) Citrix
6 2 (11.11%) Apple
6 2 (11.11%) Avaya
6 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 2 (11.11%) Juniper
6 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
7 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.56%) Genesys
7 1 (5.56%) HP
7 1 (5.56%) Netskope
7 1 (5.56%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (5.56%) Veracode