The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 - - -
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +9.83%
All Vendors
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
83 33 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 51.55% 16.50% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 64 18 34
Average salary £32,500 £33,325 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.47% -4.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,200 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,250 £55,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sophos
West Yorkshire

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Sophos Salary Trend

Sophos
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (100.00%) VBA
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) CAD
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) Contact Management
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (100.00%) SolidWorks
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) IT Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) CAD
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) VBA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SolidWorks
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam