The first table below looks at the demand for CCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSE over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank 118 136 126
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -10
Contract jobs citing CCSE 3 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.128% 0.063% 0.133%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.491% 0.273% 0.534%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £400 £365
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
611 732 749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.10% 23.09% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 272 271
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 44
Average hourly rate £18.50 £25.25 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.73% +53.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £10.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £48.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
CCSE
South East

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCSE across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Berkshire CCSE Jobs Demand Trend

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCSE across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire CCSE Daily Rate Trend

CCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Reading - 3 - - 1
Bracknell - - - -
Newbury - - - -
CCSE
South East

CCSE
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CCSE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CCSE.

1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) CCSA
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) ProxySG

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CCSE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCSA
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat