WatchGuard Contracts in the UK excluding London

WatchGuard
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of WatchGuard products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WatchGuard over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 396 455
Rank change year-on-year +63 +59 +59
Contract jobs citing WatchGuard 1 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.034% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.080% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £220 -
25th Percentile £156 £274 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £483 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.32% - -
75th Percentile £169 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £150 £483 £203
% change year-on-year -68.91% +138.27% -43.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

WatchGuard falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,235 8,788 10,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.78% 42.53% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,962 5,299 7,290
10th Percentile £215 £206 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £691 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 952 480
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -42.77% +100.53%
75th Percentile £58.72 £59.61 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £70.00 £70.03
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £22.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.15% -47.88% +99.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WatchGuard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WatchGuard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +39 1 £163 -69.05% 9
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UK

WatchGuard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Field Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) D-Link
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware