The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WatchGuard over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WatchGuard
Rank 83 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.299% 0.444% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.640% 1.299% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £24,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.42% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
All Vendors
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
469 231 346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 46.76% 34.17% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 416 211 276
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -13.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £26,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
WatchGuard
Oxfordshire

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WatchGuard across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford WatchGuard Salary Histogram

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
3 5 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (71.43%) Apple
3 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
3 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
3 5 (71.43%) MS Office
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) BCP
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Support Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) IT Support
2 5 (71.43%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (28.57%) Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Support Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) BCP
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
1 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (14.29%) MCITP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) XenApp
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) Apple
4 2 (28.57%) Veeam
5 1 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Sophos