WatchGuard Contracts

WatchGuard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 716 838
Rank change year-on-year +127 +122 -166
Contract jobs citing WatchGuard 9 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.005% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.049% 0.012% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £220 £174 £256
25th Percentile £274 £181 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £203 £359
Median % change year-on-year +138.27% -43.55% +43.50%
75th Percentile £538 £226 £445
90th Percentile - £233 £470
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 - £398
% change year-on-year - - +59.00%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WatchGuard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WatchGuard over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WatchGuard in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +132 7 £525 +159.26% 20
UK excluding London +71 7 £483 - 19
London +101 2 - - 2
North of England - 2 £440 - 1
North West - 2 £440 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 11
Wales - 2 £220 - 1
Work from Home +131 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 £525 - 2

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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 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) SAN
3 3 (33.33%) Wireless
3 3 (33.33%) WLAN
4 2 (22.22%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
5 1 (11.11%) OSPF
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Database Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Design Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Field Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Audit Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CCTV
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Mac OS
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (33.33%) Android
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Coaching
2 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) People Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
2 2 (22.22%) DBS Check
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) HP
4 3 (33.33%) Aruba
4 3 (33.33%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (33.33%) Sage
4 3 (33.33%) Veeam
5 2 (22.22%) Dell
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) SonicWALL