Bristol CheckPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	65
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.006 %	1.679 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£264
Average daily rate	£350	£264
% change on same period last year	+32.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£264
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£324
% change on same period last year	+16.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£26.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.65	£34.42
% change on same period last year	-22.57 %
Vendors Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	349	417
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.461 %	0.415 %
Daily rates quoted	103	128
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£304
Average daily rate	£337	£319
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.05	£20.87
Average hourly rate	£26.87	£22.55
% change on same period last year	+19.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.70	£24.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Check Point Software Technologies.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (75.00 %) Firewall 2 4 (50.00 %) Crossbeam 3 3 (37.50 %) Network Security 3 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 4 2 (25.00 %) CCSP 4 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 4 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (25.00 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (12.50 %) Finance 5 1 (12.50 %) OSPF 5 1 (12.50 %) BGP 5 1 (12.50 %) VRRP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (75.00 %) Firewall 2 3 (37.50 %) Network Security 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (12.50 %) OSPF 4 1 (12.50 %) BGP 4 1 (12.50 %) VRRP	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Support Officer 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Officer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Security Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) CCSP 1 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Crossbeam 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco