The first table below looks at the demand for CCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSE 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 Qualifications for the Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank - - 48
Contract jobs citing CCSE 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.195%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 1.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-13.23% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
62 94 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 14.12% 15.14% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 41
Average daily rate £363 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £13.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +33.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £12.00 £12.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £17.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCSE
West Midlands

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham CCSE Daily Rate Trend

CCSE
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Extranet
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Fund Management
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Junos
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Extranet
2 1 (50.00%) Junos
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Support
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Fund Management
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat