The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Check Point Software Technologies.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 97 72 98
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +26
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 23 66 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.960% 2.099% 1.042%
As % of the Vendors category 1.888% 4.207% 1.996%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 15
Average daily rate £390 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.03% +8.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £205 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £375 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire CheckPoint Jobs Demand Trend

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire CheckPoint Daily Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire CheckPoint Daily Rate Histogram

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Reading -9 12 £390 +56.00%
Bracknell -14 2 £462 -
Slough - 1 £285 -
Windsor - 1 £400 -
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CheckPoint 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 CheckPoint.

1 32 (66.67%) Firewall
2 29 (60.42%) Cisco
3 20 (41.67%) Network Security
4 18 (37.50%) Blue Coat
5 17 (35.42%) F5
6 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (29.17%) CCNP
7 14 (29.17%) Windows
8 12 (25.00%) VPN
8 12 (25.00%) Load Balancing
9 11 (22.92%) Juniper
10 10 (20.83%) WAN
10 10 (20.83%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (18.75%) CCSA
12 8 (16.67%) ProxySG
12 8 (16.67%) UNIX
13 7 (14.58%) LAN
13 7 (14.58%) DNS
13 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
13 7 (14.58%) CCNA
13 7 (14.58%) TCP/IP
13 7 (14.58%) Internet
13 7 (14.58%) VMware
13 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
13 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (14.58%) Windows 7
14 6 (12.50%) Nokia
14 6 (12.50%) CISSP
14 6 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (12.50%) MPLS

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CheckPoint 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 CheckPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (2.083%) WAP
2 1 (2.083%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.083%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.250%) MS Office
2 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.083%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 32 (66.67%) Firewall
2 20 (41.67%) Network Security
3 12 (25.00%) VPN
4 10 (20.83%) WAN
4 10 (20.83%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (14.58%) LAN
5 7 (14.58%) DNS
5 7 (14.58%) TCP/IP
5 7 (14.58%) Internet
6 6 (12.50%) MPLS
6 6 (12.50%) SSL
6 6 (12.50%) SMTP
6 6 (12.50%) DHCP
7 5 (10.42%) SNMP
7 5 (10.42%) BGP
7 5 (10.42%) SAN
7 5 (10.42%) IPsec
7 5 (10.42%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (10.42%) Cisco PIX
7 5 (10.42%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.42%) Finance
3 3 (6.250%) Back Office
4 1 (2.083%) Retail
4 1 (2.083%) Billing
4 1 (2.083%) French Language
4 1 (2.083%) German Language
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) IP Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Consultant
8 4 (8.333%) Security Consultant
8 4 (8.333%) Architect
9 3 (6.250%) Desktop Support
9 3 (6.250%) Network Consultant
9 3 (6.250%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.250%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (6.250%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (6.250%) Technical Manager
9 3 (6.250%) Network Security Consultant
9 3 (6.250%) Security Support Engineer
10 2 (4.167%) Technical Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.250%) SecurID
2 1 (2.083%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) UNIX
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (14.58%) Windows 7
4 6 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (12.50%) Linux
5 3 (6.250%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (6.250%) Network Management
3 2 (4.167%) Migration
4 1 (2.083%) CRM
4 1 (2.083%) Validation
4 1 (2.083%) Information Security
4 1 (2.083%) Risk Management
4 1 (2.083%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.083%) Network Design
4 1 (2.083%) Change Control
4 1 (2.083%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.083%) C#
1 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.083%) SQL
1 1 (2.083%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (29.17%) CCNP
3 9 (18.75%) CCSA
4 7 (14.58%) CCNA
5 6 (12.50%) CISSP
6 4 (8.333%) CCSE
7 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.083%) CCIE
8 1 (2.083%) CCSP
8 1 (2.083%) MCP
8 1 (2.083%) CCDP
8 1 (2.083%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.083%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (2.083%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.083%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.083%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.167%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.083%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) ProxySG
2 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.333%) vSphere
4 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.333%) SCCM
2 1 (2.083%) Legato
2 1 (2.083%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.083%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.083%) ARCserve
2 1 (2.083%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (60.42%) Cisco
2 18 (37.50%) Blue Coat
3 17 (35.42%) F5
4 11 (22.92%) Juniper
5 7 (14.58%) VMware
6 6 (12.50%) Nokia
6 6 (12.50%) McAfee
6 6 (12.50%) HP
7 4 (8.333%) Brocade
7 4 (8.333%) Citrix
7 4 (8.333%) Dell
8 3 (6.250%) Sourcefire
8 3 (6.250%) Redknee
8 3 (6.250%) NetScout
8 3 (6.250%) Crossbeam
8 3 (6.250%) TippingPoint
9 2 (4.167%) SolarWinds
9 2 (4.167%) LANDesk
9 2 (4.167%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.083%) IBM
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