The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard 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 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 Oxfordshire 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 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 27 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.463% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.935% - -
Number of salaries quoted 27 0 0
Average salary £24,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £28,000 £33,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
-16.41% +13.55%
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
WatchGuard
South East

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire 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 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
Abingdon - 16 £24,000 -
Oxford - 6 £24,000 -
WatchGuard
South East

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 29 (100.00%) SQL
1 29 (100.00%) Windows
1 29 (100.00%) VoIP
1 29 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 29 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 29 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 29 (100.00%) Citrix
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (86.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (86.21%) SAN
2 25 (86.21%) Cisco
3 24 (82.76%) Windows XP
3 24 (82.76%) MS Exchange
3 24 (82.76%) Apple
3 24 (82.76%) Blackberry
3 24 (82.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 24 (82.76%) Cisco IOS
4 20 (68.97%) MS Office
5 12 (41.38%) MS Excel
6 6 (20.69%) CCNP
6 6 (20.69%) CCNA
6 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (20.69%) MCITP
7 5 (17.24%) VLAN
7 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (17.24%) Firewall
7 5 (17.24%) Backup Exec
7 5 (17.24%) Business Continuity
7 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 24 (82.76%) MS Exchange
1 24 (82.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 20 (68.97%) MS Office
2 12 (41.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (100.00%) VoIP
1 29 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 25 (86.21%) SAN
3 24 (82.76%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (17.24%) VLAN
4 5 (17.24%) Firewall
4 5 (17.24%) VPN
4 5 (17.24%) DNS
4 5 (17.24%) DHCP
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) 2nd Line Support
2 20 (68.97%) IT Support
3 18 (62.07%) Support Engineer
4 14 (48.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 13 (44.83%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Support Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.448%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 24 (82.76%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (82.76%) Windows XP
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (13.79%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (17.24%) Business Continuity
1 5 (17.24%) BCP
1 5 (17.24%) ITIL
1 5 (17.24%) PRINCE2
2 1 (3.448%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) CCNP
1 6 (20.69%) CCNA
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 6 (20.69%) MCITP
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.24%) MCP
2 5 (17.24%) MCSE
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
System Software
1 29 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 25 (86.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V
3 5 (17.24%) XenApp
3 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (17.24%) Terminal Services
4 1 (3.448%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.448%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 29 (100.00%) Citrix
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (86.21%) Cisco
3 24 (82.76%) Apple
4 5 (17.24%) Veeam
5 1 (3.448%) Symantec
5 1 (3.448%) Sophos