Nessus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tenable Nessus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 397 468
Rank change year-on-year +36 +71 -64
Contract jobs citing Nessus 40 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.66% 0.99% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 21
10th Percentile £254 £325 £237
25th Percentile £375 £413 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £813 £521 £588
90th Percentile £836 £605 £615
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,414 3,321 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 14.63% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 2,384 2,997
10th Percentile £213 £279 £250
25th Percentile £390 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £52.25 £63.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +38 28 £500 +12.68% 4
North of England - 5 £565 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £569 - 1
Scotland +43 2 £425 -2.86% 1
West Midlands +6 2 - - 1
Midlands +5 2 - - 1
East of England - 2 £625 - 1
Wales +18 1 £690 +15.00%
North West - 1 £475 - 1
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 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
1 12 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) GitHub
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (50.00%) Firewall
2 10 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 10 (25.00%) Network Security
3 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
4 7 (17.50%) DNS
5 6 (15.00%) DHCP
5 6 (15.00%) VLAN
5 6 (15.00%) Wireless
6 4 (10.00%) NAS
6 4 (10.00%) SAN
7 2 (5.00%) LAN
7 2 (5.00%) WAN
8 1 (2.50%) SMTP
8 1 (2.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (22.50%) MySQL
3 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) GitLab
2 5 (12.50%) AppScan
2 5 (12.50%) Burp Suite
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) MSI
3 1 (2.50%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Security Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Head of Information Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) PKI
1 6 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 4 (10.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 12 (30.00%) Linux
3 10 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (15.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.50%) CentOS
8 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 10 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (22.50%) Change Control
4 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.00%) Information Security
5 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Time Management
6 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) OWASP
6 5 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (25.00%) CCNP
3 10 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.00%) CISM
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
7 2 (5.00%) CISSP
7 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CEH
8 1 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.50%) GCIH
8 1 (2.50%) MCP
8 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (15.00%) vSphere
5 5 (12.50%) Docker
6 2 (5.00%) XenApp
7 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Ansible
1 11 (27.50%) WSUS
2 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) SCCM
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 6 (15.00%) vCenter Server
4 5 (12.50%) Grafana
4 5 (12.50%) Graylog
4 5 (12.50%) HP Fortify
4 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (12.50%) Puppet
4 5 (12.50%) WebInspect
5 4 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (10.00%) ZABBIX
6 3 (7.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (5.00%) Nagios
7 2 (5.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (2.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.00%) VMware
3 13 (32.50%) Cisco
4 10 (25.00%) Juniper
4 10 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 10 (25.00%) Qualys
4 10 (25.00%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (22.50%) Splunk
6 5 (12.50%) Checkmarx
6 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 5 (12.50%) Veracode
7 4 (10.00%) Avaya
7 4 (10.00%) Oracle
7 4 (10.00%) Veeam
8 2 (5.00%) Apple
8 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.00%) Citrix
8 2 (5.00%) ForeScout
8 2 (5.00%) Genesys
8 2 (5.00%) SAP