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

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank 121 102 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 2 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.108% 0.208% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.217% 0.493% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
Average salary £46,250 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.82% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +9.83%
All Vendors
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
920 609 640
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 49.84% 42.23% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 815 552 548
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £60,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sophos
South East

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Sophos Salary Trend

Sophos
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -25 1 £40,000 +14.28%
Sophos
South East

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) VoIP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VoIP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Network Support
2 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Support Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 3 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) WatchGuard
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
Oxfordshire
Managing Cisco network infrastructure across all sites... Technologies: VMware, Cisco, Nexus, ASA, VPN, Exchange, Commvault, Backup Exec, EMC VNX, Shoretel, Terminal Services, Sophos, Commvault, MS Windows, SQL, Dell...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013