WatchGuard Job Trends

WatchGuard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 666 700
Rank change year-on-year +41 +34 +252
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 28 33 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.062% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.17% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 18
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £31,000 £47,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £41,950 £48,750 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -35.56% - +25.87%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,903 19,941 21,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 37.26% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,075 16,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%

WatchGuard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WatchGuard job vacancy trend in the UK

WatchGuard
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WatchGuard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WatchGuard

WatchGuard
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WatchGuard over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WatchGuard in the UK

WatchGuard
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WatchGuard within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +54 25 £29,000 -35.56% 12
England +54 25 £29,000 -35.56% 12
North of England - 10 £29,000 - 5
North East - 9 £29,000 - 1
Work from Home +65 8 £30,000 -34.43% 4
Midlands +21 8 £30,000 -33.33%
East Midlands - 8 £30,000 -
South East +34 7 £27,500 -15.38% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £41,500 - 4

WatchGuard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (78.57%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.00%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (92.86%) Firewall
2 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 12 (42.86%) VLAN
3 11 (39.29%) Wireless
4 7 (25.00%) IP Telephony
5 5 (17.86%) DHCP
5 5 (17.86%) DNS
6 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) VPN
6 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Support Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) IT Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) IT Support
4 9 (32.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Technical Support
4 9 (32.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
6 3 (10.71%) Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) First Line Help Desk Support
7 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Support Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior IT Support
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) CCTV
1 7 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 11 (39.29%) Customer-Centricity
2 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (32.14%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (28.57%) ITIL
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) ITSM
6 4 (14.29%) Gamification
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
8 2 (7.14%) Change Advisory Board
8 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
9 1 (3.57%) Agile
9 1 (3.57%) Change Control
9 1 (3.57%) Customer Experience
9 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Transfer
9 1 (3.57%) Network Virtualisation
9 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (25.00%) CCNA
2 7 (25.00%) CCNP
2 7 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.00%) MCP
2 7 (25.00%) MCSA
2 7 (25.00%) MCSE
3 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (71.43%) Hyper-V
2 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
3 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.14%) Firmware
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
5 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (39.29%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (71.43%) VMware
3 12 (42.86%) SonicWALL
3 12 (42.86%) Veeam
4 11 (39.29%) Cisco
5 7 (25.00%) Draytek
5 7 (25.00%) Mitel
6 2 (7.14%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (3.57%) Aruba
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) Darktrace
7 1 (3.57%) Datto
7 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.57%) Ivanti
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) Sophos