WatchGuard Contracts

WatchGuard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 573 698
Rank change year-on-year +54 +125 +140
Contract jobs citing WatchGuard 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.028% 0.033% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £204 £174
25th Percentile £145 £210 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £156 £220 £203
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% +8.64% -43.55%
75th Percentile £270 - £226
90th Percentile £453 - £233
UK excluding London median daily rate £356 £220 -
% change year-on-year +61.93% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,048 18,051 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 42.37% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,759 11,216 16,323
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £645
90th Percentile £712 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 1,110 662
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.02 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -46.97% +88.58%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.88 £21.46 £34.00
% change year-on-year +6.59% -36.88% +81.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WatchGuard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard.

Daily rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WatchGuard over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WatchGuard in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WatchGuard.

Hourly rate trend for WatchGuard in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +55 4 £156 -21.88% 21
London +45 2 £150 -
UK excluding London +43 2 £356 +61.93% 19
South East +41 1 £163 -18.75% 4
North of England +22 1 £550 - 3
North West +12 1 £550 - 1

WatchGuard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) AVG
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Draytek
2 2 (50.00%) GFI Software
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Kaspersky
2 2 (50.00%) NETGEAR
2 2 (50.00%) Panasonic
2 2 (50.00%) Sage
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Spiceworks
2 2 (50.00%) Toshiba
2 2 (50.00%) Webroot