The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 32 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.216% 0.708% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.564% 1.705% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £320 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
156 176 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.42% 41.51% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 37
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
Cambridgeshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge CheckPoint Daily Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) MCSE
4 3 (50.00%) MCSA
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) Adobe
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (50.00%) Acrobat
4 3 (50.00%) Remedy
4 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (50.00%) MCP
4 3 (50.00%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
5 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (33.33%) Danish Language
5 2 (33.33%) French Language
5 2 (33.33%) German Language
5 2 (33.33%) Hebrew Language
5 2 (33.33%) Swedish Language
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) F5
5 2 (33.33%) LAN
5 2 (33.33%) WAN
6 1 (16.67%) Dell
6 1 (16.67%) EMC

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) FCoE
4 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Danish Language
1 2 (33.33%) French Language
1 2 (33.33%) German Language
1 2 (33.33%) Hebrew Language
1 2 (33.33%) Swedish Language
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) MCSA
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (33.33%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) VMware