The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 798 842 821
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -21
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 70 43 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.064% 0.036% 0.048%
As % of the Vendors category 0.134% 0.075% 0.101%
Number of salaries quoted 65 41 51
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
52148 57604 60504
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 47.87% 47.80% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42716 48585 50459
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WatchGuard Jobs Demand Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WatchGuard within the UK.

WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Histogram

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

WatchGuard Salary Histogram

WatchGuard
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +52 70 £30,000 -14.28% 4
South East +36 35 £30,000 -14.28% 2
Oxfordshire -3 18 £24,000 -31.42% 1
London +37 12 £40,000 -4.76% 1
North West +14 10 £42,000 +100.00%
Abingdon - 9 £24,000 -
Yorkshire +14 7 £22,500 -
West Yorkshire +2 7 £22,500 -
Leeds -1 7 £30,000 -
Berkshire - 7 £30,000 - 1
Cheshire - 6 £42,000 -
Newbury - 5 £30,000 - 1
Surrey +18 4 £38,750 +3.33%
Merseyside - 4 £35,000 -
East of England +4 3 £35,000 +3.70%
Oxford -19 3 £24,000 -31.42%
Essex - 3 £35,000 -
M4 Corridor - 2 £37,500 -
Huddersfield - 2 £22,500 -
Wakefield - 2 £22,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £42,500 -
Halifax - 2 £22,500 -
Bradford - 2 £22,500 -
Bromley - 2 £40,000 -
City of London -3 1 £53,750 +19.44%
East Midlands - 1 £28,000 -
Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
Leicestershire - 1 £28,000 -
Middlesex - 1 £47,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £28,000 -

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 119 (80.41%) Windows
2 109 (73.65%) Microsoft
2 109 (73.65%) VMware
3 100 (67.57%) Firewall
4 98 (66.22%) Cisco
5 87 (58.78%) Active Directory
6 80 (54.05%) MS Exchange
7 79 (53.38%) SAN
8 75 (50.68%) VMware Infrastructure
9 71 (47.97%) HP
10 59 (39.86%) SQL
11 54 (36.49%) Citrix
12 51 (34.46%) VoIP
13 50 (33.78%) TCP/IP
14 46 (31.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 45 (30.41%) Windows Server 2008
16 43 (29.05%) Blackberry
17 42 (28.38%) MS Excel
18 40 (27.03%) WAN
19 37 (25.00%) Windows XP
20 36 (24.32%) VPN
20 36 (24.32%) DNS
21 35 (23.65%) Exchange Server 2010
22 33 (22.30%) MS Office
22 33 (22.30%) Backup Exec
23 32 (21.62%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
23 32 (21.62%) Symantec
24 31 (20.95%) Dell
24 31 (20.95%) Cisco IOS
25 30 (20.27%) Veeam

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 (2.027%) .NET
2 2 (1.351%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.351%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 80 (54.05%) MS Exchange
2 35 (23.65%) Exchange Server 2010
3 32 (21.62%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 19 (12.84%) SharePoint
4 19 (12.84%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (9.459%) Exchange Server 2007
6 8 (5.405%) Apache
6 8 (5.405%) IIS
7 7 (4.730%) Lync
8 5 (3.378%) Exchange Server 2000
9 2 (1.351%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.351%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.351%) Drupal
9 2 (1.351%) Joomla!
9 2 (1.351%) GlassFish
10 1 (0.676%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 42 (28.38%) MS Excel
2 33 (22.30%) MS Office
3 3 (2.027%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.703%) Prophet
Communications & Networking
1 100 (67.57%) Firewall
2 79 (53.38%) SAN
3 51 (34.46%) VoIP
4 50 (33.78%) TCP/IP
5 40 (27.03%) WAN
6 36 (24.32%) VPN
6 36 (24.32%) DNS
7 31 (20.95%) Cisco IOS
8 28 (18.92%) LAN
9 25 (16.89%) DHCP
10 19 (12.84%) Network Security
11 17 (11.49%) VLAN
11 17 (11.49%) SSL
12 16 (10.81%) Internet
13 13 (8.784%) Wireless
14 12 (8.108%) IPsec
14 12 (8.108%) NAS
15 8 (5.405%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (4.730%) SNMP
17 6 (4.054%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.054%) MySQL
3 4 (2.703%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.351%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (1.351%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (7.432%) Finance
2 7 (4.730%) Retail
3 5 (3.378%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.703%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (2.703%) Banking
5 3 (2.027%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (23.65%) IT Support
2 32 (21.62%) Support Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) 2nd Line Support
4 25 (16.89%) Consultant
5 20 (13.51%) Analyst
6 19 (12.84%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (10.14%) Administrator
9 14 (9.459%) Support Analyst
9 14 (9.459%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (9.459%) Sales Consultant
10 13 (8.784%) IT Consultant
11 12 (8.108%) 3rd Line Support
12 11 (7.432%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (6.757%) IT Sales Consultant
14 9 (6.081%) Technical Consultant
15 8 (5.405%) IT Administrator
16 7 (4.730%) Network Engineer
17 6 (4.054%) Head of Professional Services
17 6 (4.054%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.05%) Blackberry
2 11 (7.432%) Replication
3 9 (6.081%) SaaS
4 5 (3.378%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (3.378%) SWIFT
5 4 (2.703%) EqualLogic
5 4 (2.703%) Celerra
5 4 (2.703%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.351%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.351%) CCTV
7 1 (0.676%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.676%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.676%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.676%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 119 (80.41%) Windows
2 46 (31.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 45 (30.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 37 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 22 (14.86%) Linux
6 19 (12.84%) Windows 7
7 12 (8.108%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (5.405%) Windows 2000 Server
9 5 (3.378%) UNIX
9 5 (3.378%) AIX
10 4 (2.703%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.703%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.351%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.351%) CentOS
11 2 (1.351%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.676%) Android
12 1 (0.676%) Solaris
12 1 (0.676%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (14.19%) ITIL
3 11 (7.432%) Project Management
4 10 (6.757%) BCP
4 10 (6.757%) Business Continuity
5 7 (4.730%) PRINCE2
6 6 (4.054%) Information Security
7 5 (3.378%) Time Management
7 5 (3.378%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (2.703%) WAN Optimisation
8 4 (2.703%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (2.703%) Migration
8 4 (2.703%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (2.703%) Fault Management
9 3 (2.027%) Project Planning
9 3 (2.027%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.351%) Information Security Management
10 2 (1.351%) Security Management
10 2 (1.351%) Business Development
10 2 (1.351%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.86%) SQL
2 7 (4.730%) C
3 6 (4.054%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.378%) VBScript
5 2 (1.351%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (16.22%) CCNP
3 22 (14.86%) CCNA
4 21 (14.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (13.51%) MCSE
6 14 (9.459%) MCITP
7 11 (7.432%) MCSA
8 8 (5.405%) MCP
8 8 (5.405%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (4.054%) Degree
10 4 (2.703%) CCSP
11 3 (2.027%) CCIE
12 1 (0.676%) Security Cleared
12 1 (0.676%) CCA
12 1 (0.676%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.676%) CCEA
12 1 (0.676%) CCDP
12 1 (0.676%) CCAA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.378%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.703%) SLA
3 3 (2.027%) QA
System Software
1 87 (58.78%) Active Directory
2 75 (50.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (16.89%) vSphere
4 24 (16.22%) Hyper-V
5 13 (8.784%) XenApp
5 13 (8.784%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (6.081%) Terminal Services
7 5 (3.378%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.378%) Forefront TMG
7 5 (3.378%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (3.378%) ISA Server
8 4 (2.703%) Terminal Server
8 4 (2.703%) XenDesktop
9 3 (2.027%) XenServer
10 2 (1.351%) OpenSSO
10 2 (1.351%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.676%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.676%) Xen
11 1 (0.676%) NFS
Systems Management
1 33 (22.30%) Backup Exec
2 17 (11.49%) WSUS
3 11 (7.432%) Norton AntiVirus
4 10 (6.757%) SCCM
5 6 (4.054%) SCOM
6 5 (3.378%) Cacti
6 5 (3.378%) Tivoli
6 5 (3.378%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (3.378%) Nagios
6 5 (3.378%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 4 (2.703%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.351%) Sysprep
9 1 (0.676%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 109 (73.65%) Microsoft
1 109 (73.65%) VMware
2 98 (66.22%) Cisco
3 71 (47.97%) HP
4 54 (36.49%) Citrix
5 32 (21.62%) Symantec
6 31 (20.95%) Dell
7 30 (20.27%) Veeam
8 29 (19.59%) Apple
9 27 (18.24%) Juniper
9 27 (18.24%) NetApp
9 27 (18.24%) SonicWALL
10 22 (14.86%) CheckPoint
11 12 (8.108%) IBM
11 12 (8.108%) ProCurve
12 11 (7.432%) Sophos
13 8 (5.405%) Avaya
14 6 (4.054%) McAfee
15 5 (3.378%) Draytek
15 5 (3.378%) 3PAR
Witney, Oxfordshire
You will ideally be degree educated, have current MCITP/MCSE qualifications and extensive knowledge of Microsoft products as well as the following: -Experience with more than one of;...
Kriston Technology Ltd.
Salary: Salary Neg.
Posted: 10 June 2013
Dagenham, Essex
Essential - Strong operational knowledge of the following:- Microsoft / Windows. VMWare. Cisco, SAN, Fibre Channel, Fiber Channel, F/C, MS Exchange, Proven and relevant working experience in a busy,...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Essential skills :- Active Directory and Windows Server (2003 MCSA/MCSE or newer). Network configuration (CCNA/CCNP). Internet WAN technologies (proxies, DNS, SMTP)... SQL Administration... Cisco, Watchguard, Dell and...
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
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