WatchGuard Contracts in the UK excluding London

WatchGuard
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WatchGuard over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 446 503
Rank change year-on-year +57 +57 -71
Contract jobs citing WatchGuard 7 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.004% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% 0.010% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £220 - £257
25th Percentile £274 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £453
90th Percentile - - £471
UK median daily rate £483 £203 £359
% change year-on-year +138.27% -43.55% +43.50%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

WatchGuard is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,753 10,431 12,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.46% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 7,157 8,182
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 477 626
10th Percentile £11.82 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WatchGuard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WatchGuard in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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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 WatchGuard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West - 2 £440 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 12
Wales - 2 £220 - 1
North of England - 2 £440 - 2
Midlands - 1 £525 - 1
WatchGuard
UK

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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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
3 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Database Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Audit Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) CCTV
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Mac OS
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (28.57%) People Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) Aruba
4 3 (42.86%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 3 (42.86%) Sage
4 3 (42.86%) Veeam
5 2 (28.57%) Dell
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) SonicWALL