The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 212 214 211
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 8 13 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.152% 0.216% 0.056%
As % of the Vendors category 0.295% 0.431% 0.102%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 2
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +50.94%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +9.83%
All Vendors
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2709 3018 2950
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 51.37% 50.17% 55.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2144 2514 2527
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Egham - 5 £37,500 -
Epsom - 1 £27,000 -
Reigate - 1 - -
Sophos
South East

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (80.00%) VoIP
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 7 (70.00%) SAN
3 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (70.00%) Symantec
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 7 (70.00%) Clustering
3 7 (70.00%) iSCSI
3 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (60.00%) SCCM
4 6 (60.00%) SCOM
4 6 (60.00%) SCVMM
4 6 (60.00%) Backup Exec
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (60.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 6 (60.00%) Linux
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 6 (60.00%) Dell
5 5 (50.00%) DNS
5 5 (50.00%) Terminal Services
5 5 (50.00%) BizTalk Server

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (50.00%) IIS
5 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (10.00%) Lync
5 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) VoIP
2 7 (70.00%) SAN
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) iSCSI
3 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 5 (50.00%) DNS
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (50.00%) DHCP
4 5 (50.00%) VLAN
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
6 1 (10.00%) NAS
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Clustering
2 5 (50.00%) EqualLogic
3 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (50.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (10.00%) SUSE
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CRM
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SCCM
1 6 (60.00%) SCOM
1 6 (60.00%) SCVMM
1 6 (60.00%) Backup Exec
1 6 (60.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Symantec
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) BMC
4 2 (20.00%) BT
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (10.00%) Veritas
5 1 (10.00%) EMC
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle
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