The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 - 74 57
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 0 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford - 0.557% 0.229%
As % of the Vendors category - 1.626% 0.645%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £19,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -31.57%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +9.83%
All Vendors
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
364 246 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 40.18% 34.26% 35.47%
Number of salaries quoted 303 234 140
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% +4.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,350 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,750 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sophos
Surrey

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Sophos Salary Trend

Sophos
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NAS

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas