WatchGuard Job Trends in Manchester

WatchGuard
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring knowledge or experience of WatchGuard products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WatchGuard over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.025% - 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year +71.43% - -

All Vendors
Manchester

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 870 895 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.03% 40.41% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 597 461 1,196
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,850 £93,778 £83,759
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

WatchGuard
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WatchGuard relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

WatchGuard job vacancy trend in Manchester

WatchGuard
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WatchGuard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WatchGuard

WatchGuard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware