The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WatchGuard over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WatchGuard
Rank 571 617 641
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +24
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 13 19 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.030% 0.035% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.064% 0.076% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 9
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £30,200
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £44,500 £42,700
UK excluding London average salary £28,000 £33,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
-16.41% +13.55%
All Vendors
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20398 25100 26018
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 46.64% 46.80% 44.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16804 21509 21680
Average salary £51,000 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
WatchGuard
England

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WatchGuard across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London WatchGuard Salary Histogram

WatchGuard
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WatchGuard within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bromley - 2 £40,000 -
City of London -2 1 £53,750 +43.33%
WatchGuard
England

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 23 (92.00%) Firewall
2 20 (80.00%) Windows
3 18 (72.00%) HP
4 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (56.00%) Cisco
6 13 (52.00%) SAN
7 12 (48.00%) MS Exchange
8 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
9 10 (40.00%) VMware
9 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (32.00%) SQL
12 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
12 7 (28.00%) VPN
12 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
13 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2010
13 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
13 6 (24.00%) Dell
13 6 (24.00%) Blackberry
13 6 (24.00%) Wireless
14 5 (20.00%) IPsec
14 5 (20.00%) Finance
14 5 (20.00%) Backup Exec
14 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 5 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
14 5 (20.00%) Project Management
14 5 (20.00%) Juniper
14 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
14 5 (20.00%) WAN
14 5 (20.00%) Windows XP

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 Development
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) MS Exchange
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (12.00%) IIS
6 3 (12.00%) Apache
7 2 (8.000%) Drupal
7 2 (8.000%) GlassFish
7 2 (8.000%) Joomla!
7 2 (8.000%) Lync
7 2 (8.000%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.000%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (12.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (8.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 23 (92.00%) Firewall
2 13 (52.00%) SAN
3 7 (28.00%) VPN
4 6 (24.00%) Wireless
5 5 (20.00%) IPsec
5 5 (20.00%) WAN
6 4 (16.00%) DNS
6 4 (16.00%) VLAN
6 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (12.00%) SSL
7 3 (12.00%) LAN
8 2 (8.000%) VoIP
8 2 (8.000%) FTP
8 2 (8.000%) TCP/IP
8 2 (8.000%) DMZ
8 2 (8.000%) Internet
8 2 (8.000%) EIGRP
8 2 (8.000%) PPTP
8 2 (8.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.000%) MySQL
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.000%) Network Support
4 2 (8.000%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Network Support Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Network Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (16.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.000%) Replication
4 1 (4.000%) Clustering
4 1 (4.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
5 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (16.00%) Linux
7 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
8 2 (8.000%) Windows Vista
8 2 (8.000%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (8.000%) Windows 8
8 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (4.000%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Project Management
2 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 2 (8.000%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) BCP
3 2 (8.000%) Business Continuity
3 2 (8.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.000%) Supplier Management
4 1 (4.000%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (4.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) C#
3 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) CCNP
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.000%) CCNA
2 2 (8.000%) CCIE
2 2 (8.000%) CCSP
3 1 (4.000%) MCITP
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.000%) MCSE
3 1 (4.000%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (8.000%) XenApp
5 2 (8.000%) XenServer
5 2 (8.000%) OpenSSO
5 2 (8.000%) DFS Replication
6 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (12.00%) WSUS
2 3 (12.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (8.000%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) HP
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (56.00%) Cisco
4 10 (40.00%) VMware
5 6 (24.00%) Dell
6 5 (20.00%) Juniper
6 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (16.00%) Citrix
8 3 (12.00%) ProCurve
8 3 (12.00%) SonicWALL
8 3 (12.00%) Draytek
8 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg
8 3 (12.00%) Symantec
8 3 (12.00%) Fidessa
9 2 (8.000%) Sophos
9 2 (8.000%) Salesforce.com
9 2 (8.000%) Nortel
9 2 (8.000%) Avaya
9 2 (8.000%) Sage
9 2 (8.000%) Mitel
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