The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WatchGuard over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent region.

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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WatchGuard
Rank - - 103
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent - - 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category - - 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £28,000 £33,500 £28,750
% change year-on-year
-16.41% +16.52%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
523 350 596
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.16% 48.08% 57.31%
Number of salaries quoted 448 320 529
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
WatchGuard
South East

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent WatchGuard Jobs Demand Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Trend

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

Kent WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing WatchGuard 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 WatchGuard.

1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
1 5 (100.00%) NAS
1 5 (100.00%) 3PAR
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Fault Management
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Debian
5 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (20.00%) Solaris
5 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (20.00%) CentOS
5 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (20.00%) Xen

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing WatchGuard 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 WatchGuard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (80.00%) Fault Management
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) 3PAR
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat