Sophos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 832 906
Rank change year-on-year +116 +74 -191
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 199 120 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 191 110 286
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,263 £25,625
25th Percentile £29,375 £31,938 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +7.34% +16.45%
75th Percentile £45,000 £58,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Vendors
UK

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sophos.

Salary trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sophos over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +80 183 £37,500 -6.25% 30
England +131 176 £37,500 -21.05% 32
Midlands +16 56 £37,500 -10.71% 5
Work from Home +72 54 £40,500 -14.74% 15
West Midlands +42 49 £37,500 +15.38% 2
North of England +67 38 £32,500 -18.75% 8
South East +21 33 £29,500 -19.73% 4
North West +13 19 £32,500 -18.75% 2
East of England +7 18 £42,500 -15.00% 9
South West -14 18 £32,500 +35.42% 4
London +120 13 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Scotland -46 11 £55,000 -
North East - 10 £33,250 - 1
Yorkshire +81 9 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Wales - 9 £40,500 - 2
East Midlands -25 7 £47,500 - 3

Sophos
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 62 (31.16%) SharePoint
2 51 (25.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (20.60%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 155 (77.89%) Microsoft 365
2 110 (55.28%) Azure
3 39 (19.60%) Entra ID
4 34 (17.09%) Mimecast
5 26 (13.07%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.04%) AWS
6 16 (8.04%) OneDrive
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (3.52%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.51%) IaaS
9 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.51%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.51%) GCP
10 3 (1.51%) Rubrik
10 3 (1.51%) SaaS
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 92 (46.23%) Firewall
2 43 (21.61%) DHCP
2 43 (21.61%) DNS
3 42 (21.11%) VPN
4 31 (15.58%) LAN
4 31 (15.58%) VoIP
5 28 (14.07%) SAN
5 28 (14.07%) TCP/IP
6 26 (13.07%) WAN
7 20 (10.05%) Wireless
8 17 (8.54%) Intranet
8 17 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (7.04%) VLAN
9 14 (7.04%) WLAN
10 9 (4.52%) NAS
11 8 (4.02%) Internet
12 7 (3.52%) Unified Communications
13 6 (3.02%) Network Security
13 6 (3.02%) SMTP
14 5 (2.51%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.55%) Power BI
3 8 (4.02%) MariaDB
3 8 (4.02%) MySQL
4 5 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Hudson
General
1 89 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.11%) Finance
3 13 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (6.03%) Back Office
5 11 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.52%) Law
6 9 (4.52%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.02%) Retail
9 5 (2.51%) Games
10 4 (2.01%) Legal
10 4 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.51%) Marketing
11 3 (1.51%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (33.67%) Support Engineer
2 62 (31.16%) IT Support
3 57 (28.64%) IT Engineer
4 51 (25.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (17.09%) IT Manager
6 30 (15.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 29 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (14.07%) 2nd Line Support
9 25 (12.56%) 3rd Line Support
10 21 (10.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 20 (10.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 20 (10.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 16 (8.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (7.54%) Senior
14 12 (6.03%) Infrastructure Support
14 12 (6.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 11 (5.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
15 11 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (4.52%) Analyst
16 9 (4.52%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.01%) LAMP
1 2 (1.01%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.54%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.03%) Replication
3 6 (3.02%) Clustering
3 6 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.51%) Cyber Security Posture
4 5 (2.51%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.51%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.51%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.01%) NHS
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
7 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.50%) CCTV
8 1 (0.50%) iPhone
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 124 (62.31%) Windows
2 98 (49.25%) Windows Server
3 42 (21.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 40 (20.10%) Windows 10
5 39 (19.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (9.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (7.54%) Linux
8 8 (4.02%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.02%) Android
10 4 (2.01%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.01%) Unix
11 3 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.01%) AIX
12 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.01%) VMS
12 2 (1.01%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.20%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (30.65%) Customer Service
3 59 (29.65%) ITIL
4 42 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (19.10%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (19.10%) Line Management
6 21 (10.55%) Service Delivery
7 20 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (9.05%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 17 (8.54%) Data Governance
9 17 (8.54%) Digital Strategy
9 17 (8.54%) Information Governance
10 15 (7.54%) Antivirus Management
11 14 (7.04%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.53%) Kalman Filter
13 12 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (6.03%) ERP
13 12 (6.03%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (5.53%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.07%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.52%) SQL
3 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.01%) Python
4 1 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (16.58%) Degree
2 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.53%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (5.03%) CCNA
5 10 (5.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (5.03%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.52%) MCP
6 9 (4.52%) MCSE
6 9 (4.52%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.52%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.52%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.51%) MCSA
9 4 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.01%) MCITP
10 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.51%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.01%) HP APS
11 2 (1.01%) SANS
11 2 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.08%) SLA
2 27 (13.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (11.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.51%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (1.01%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 103 (51.76%) Active Directory
2 51 (25.63%) Hyper-V
3 45 (22.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.02%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.01%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (2.01%) vSphere
6 3 (1.51%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.01%) Docker
7 2 (1.01%) pfSense
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.01%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (31.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (9.05%) WSUS
3 17 (8.54%) SCCM
4 9 (4.52%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.51%) Autotask
5 5 (2.51%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.51%) Backup Exec
6 3 (1.51%) SmoothWall
7 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.01%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.50%) MAILsweeper
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.50%) MobiControl
8 1 (0.50%) SCOM
8 1 (0.50%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 158 (79.40%) Microsoft
2 64 (32.16%) VMware
3 57 (28.64%) Veeam
4 38 (19.10%) Cisco
5 26 (13.07%) Datto
5 26 (13.07%) HP
6 23 (11.56%) Apple
7 22 (11.06%) Acronis
8 21 (10.55%) Meraki
9 19 (9.55%) Citrix
10 16 (8.04%) Aruba
11 15 (7.54%) Barracuda Networks
11 15 (7.54%) ConnectWise
12 12 (6.03%) Draytek
13 11 (5.53%) Sage
14 10 (5.03%) ESET
15 9 (4.52%) Ubiquiti
15 9 (4.52%) WatchGuard
16 8 (4.02%) EMC
16 8 (4.02%) SonicWALL