The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sophos over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Gloucestershire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank - - 73
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 0 0 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - 1.084%
As % of the Vendors category - - 3.209%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 10
Average salary - - £36,750
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +9.83%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
449 592 374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 50.96% 47.67% 33.79%
Number of salaries quoted 386 515 320
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sophos
South West

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sophos across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Gloucestershire Sophos Jobs Demand Trend

Sophos
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sophos across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Sophos Salary Trend

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Sophos also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Sophos.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec
1 10 (100.00%) WSUS
2 8 (80.00%) vSphere
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 7 (70.00%) McAfee
4 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (50.00%) SCCM
5 5 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (50.00%) CentOS
5 5 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
5 5 (50.00%) C
5 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (50.00%) Backup Exec
5 5 (50.00%) MCITP
5 5 (50.00%) Degree
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (50.00%) Juniper
5 5 (50.00%) MCSE
5 5 (50.00%) MCSA
5 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (50.00%) Cisco
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (40.00%) VBScript
6 4 (40.00%) ITIL
6 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Sophos also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Server Support
3 1 (10.00%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Server Analyst
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) VBScript
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) MCITP
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (50.00%) MCSE
1 5 (50.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) vSphere
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) WSUS
2 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 5 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
2 5 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 4 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 2 (20.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
3 7 (70.00%) McAfee
4 5 (50.00%) Juniper
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (30.00%) Citrix
5 3 (30.00%) NetApp
6 2 (20.00%) Lotus