The first table below looks at the demand for CCSA in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSA over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
Rank 200 198 237
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +39
Contract jobs citing CCSA 5 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.213% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.525% 1.565% 0.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 2
Average daily rate £328 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.12% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £305 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £620 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £425 £305
% change year-on-year
-27.64% +39.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
953 1086 1179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.82% 13.61% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 656 748
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £251 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £574 £599 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 49 53
Average hourly rate £41.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+130.55% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCSA
London

CCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London CCSA Jobs Demand Trend

CCSA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCSA across the City of London region.

City of London CCSA Daily Rate Trend

CCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCSA across the City of London region.

City of London CCSA Hourly Rate Trend

CCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCSA 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 CCSA.

1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (92.31%) CheckPoint
3 9 (69.23%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (61.54%) Juniper
4 8 (61.54%) CCSE
4 8 (61.54%) F5
5 7 (53.85%) Firewall
5 7 (53.85%) CCNP
6 6 (46.15%) LAN
6 6 (46.15%) WAN
6 6 (46.15%) Network Security
7 5 (38.46%) Blue Coat
7 5 (38.46%) VPN
7 5 (38.46%) CISSP
8 4 (30.77%) Internet
8 4 (30.77%) SSL
8 4 (30.77%) CCIE
8 4 (30.77%) CCNA
8 4 (30.77%) CCDA
8 4 (30.77%) ProxySG
8 4 (30.77%) IPsec
8 4 (30.77%) Sourcefire
9 3 (23.08%) CCDP
9 3 (23.08%) CCSP
9 3 (23.08%) MPLS
9 3 (23.08%) BGP
10 2 (15.38%) OSPF
10 2 (15.38%) Linux
10 2 (15.38%) UNIX
10 2 (15.38%) Windows

CCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCSA 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 CCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) LAN
2 6 (46.15%) WAN
2 6 (46.15%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) VPN
4 4 (30.77%) Internet
4 4 (30.77%) SSL
4 4 (30.77%) IPsec
5 3 (23.08%) MPLS
5 3 (23.08%) BGP
6 2 (15.38%) OSPF
7 1 (7.692%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (7.692%) Junos
7 1 (7.692%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (7.692%) HTTP
7 1 (7.692%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
General
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Security Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Network Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Network Security Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco Security Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Network Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) UNIX
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.692%) Security Architecture
1 1 (7.692%) Network Management
1 1 (7.692%) Network Design
1 1 (7.692%) ITSM
1 1 (7.692%) Information Security
1 1 (7.692%) ITIL
1 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
1 1 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (61.54%) CCSE
3 7 (53.85%) CCNP
4 5 (38.46%) CISSP
5 4 (30.77%) CCIE
5 4 (30.77%) CCNA
5 4 (30.77%) CCDA
6 3 (23.08%) CCDP
6 3 (23.08%) CCSP
7 1 (7.692%) CEH
7 1 (7.692%) Check Point Certification
7 1 (7.692%) CISA
7 1 (7.692%) CISM
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) ProxySG
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (92.31%) CheckPoint
3 8 (61.54%) Juniper
3 8 (61.54%) F5
4 5 (38.46%) Blue Coat
5 4 (30.77%) Sourcefire
6 2 (15.38%) Twitter
7 1 (7.692%) VMware
7 1 (7.692%) Nokia