The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services 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 CheckPoint over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 180 162 202
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +40
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 35 60 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.508% 0.778% 0.459%
As % of the Vendors category 1.109% 1.833% 1.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 30
Average daily rate £375 £413 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £305 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £450 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £27.49
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +12.78%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3155 3273 4245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.76% 42.43% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2245 2229 2966
Average daily rate £425 £425 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 98 136
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £39.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
CheckPoint
London

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 49 (73.13%) Cisco
2 47 (70.15%) Firewall
3 26 (38.81%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (34.33%) LAN
5 18 (26.87%) WAN
6 17 (25.37%) Finance
7 16 (23.88%) Juniper
8 15 (22.39%) CCNP
8 15 (22.39%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (19.40%) Network Security
9 13 (19.40%) CCNA
10 12 (17.91%) Windows
10 12 (17.91%) F5
11 11 (16.42%) Banking
11 11 (16.42%) Blue Coat
11 11 (16.42%) CCSE
11 11 (16.42%) VoIP
11 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
12 9 (13.43%) SAN
12 9 (13.43%) OSPF
12 9 (13.43%) Project Management
12 9 (13.43%) Wireless
12 9 (13.43%) CCSA
13 8 (11.94%) VMware
13 8 (11.94%) BGP
13 8 (11.94%) SSL
13 8 (11.94%) HP
13 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
14 7 (10.45%) Avaya
14 7 (10.45%) VPN

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 4 (5.970%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.493%) .NET
2 1 (1.493%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.970%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (5.970%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 4 (5.970%) CMS
1 4 (5.970%) Lync
2 3 (4.478%) Apache
2 3 (4.478%) CloudStack
3 2 (2.985%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.493%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.985%) MS Project
1 2 (2.985%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.493%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.493%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.493%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.493%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 47 (70.15%) Firewall
2 23 (34.33%) LAN
3 18 (26.87%) WAN
4 15 (22.39%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (19.40%) Network Security
6 11 (16.42%) VoIP
7 9 (13.43%) SAN
7 9 (13.43%) Wireless
7 9 (13.43%) OSPF
8 8 (11.94%) BGP
8 8 (11.94%) SSL
9 7 (10.45%) VPN
10 6 (8.955%) WLAN
10 6 (8.955%) MPLS
11 5 (7.463%) Wireshark
11 5 (7.463%) Ethernet
11 5 (7.463%) HTTP
11 5 (7.463%) Internet
11 5 (7.463%) OmniPeek
12 4 (5.970%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.970%) DB2
2 3 (4.478%) MySQL
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (25.37%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Banking
3 6 (8.955%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.463%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.478%) Advertising
6 2 (2.985%) Publishing
6 2 (2.985%) Back Office
7 1 (1.493%) Law
7 1 (1.493%) Legal
7 1 (1.493%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Network Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Consultant
2 9 (13.43%) Security Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (8.955%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (7.463%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (7.463%) Analyst
7 4 (5.970%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.970%) Voice Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Senior Voice Engineer
8 3 (4.478%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 3 (4.478%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.478%) Cisco Consultant
8 3 (4.478%) Security Consultant
8 3 (4.478%) Network Specialist
9 2 (2.985%) Cisco Analyst
9 2 (2.985%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.970%) Mainframe
1 4 (5.970%) PKI
2 3 (4.478%) CLARiiON
2 3 (4.478%) Clustering
2 3 (4.478%) PMI
2 3 (4.478%) Open Source
3 1 (1.493%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.493%) EFT
3 1 (1.493%) Replication
3 1 (1.493%) SecurID
3 1 (1.493%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Windows
2 6 (8.955%) Linux
2 6 (8.955%) UNIX
3 5 (7.463%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (7.463%) AIX
4 4 (5.970%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.478%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.985%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.493%) Solaris
7 1 (1.493%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.43%) Project Management
2 7 (10.45%) ITIL
3 6 (8.955%) PRINCE2
4 5 (7.463%) Migration
4 5 (7.463%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (5.970%) Configuration Management
5 4 (5.970%) Network Management
6 3 (4.478%) Project Planning
6 3 (4.478%) Load Balancing
6 3 (4.478%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (4.478%) CRM
6 3 (4.478%) Service Delivery
7 2 (2.985%) Change Management
7 2 (2.985%) Risk Management
7 2 (2.985%) Network Design
7 2 (2.985%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (2.985%) Change Control
8 1 (1.493%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.493%) Asset Management
8 1 (1.493%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.478%) PHP
1 3 (4.478%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.985%) SQL
3 1 (1.493%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.493%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (22.39%) CCNP
3 13 (19.40%) CCNA
4 11 (16.42%) CCSE
5 9 (13.43%) CCSA
6 5 (7.463%) CCDP
6 5 (7.463%) CCIE
6 5 (7.463%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.970%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.970%) CCDA
8 3 (4.478%) CISSP
8 3 (4.478%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.985%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.985%) CCSP
9 2 (2.985%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.493%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.493%) CNA
10 1 (1.493%) Novell Certification
10 1 (1.493%) Check Point Certification
10 1 (1.493%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.493%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.463%) vSphere
3 4 (5.970%) ProxySG
3 4 (5.970%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.478%) vCloud
5 2 (2.985%) XenApp
5 2 (2.985%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.493%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.493%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.463%) OpenView
2 3 (4.478%) Nagios
2 3 (4.478%) Zenoss
3 2 (2.985%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.493%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.493%) MIMEsweeper
4 1 (1.493%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.493%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 49 (73.13%) Cisco
2 16 (23.88%) Juniper
3 12 (17.91%) F5
4 11 (16.42%) Blue Coat
4 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.94%) HP
5 8 (11.94%) VMware
6 7 (10.45%) Avaya
7 5 (7.463%) Citrix
7 5 (7.463%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.970%) Mitel
8 4 (5.970%) Verint
8 4 (5.970%) NetApp
8 4 (5.970%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.970%) Infovista
8 4 (5.970%) Oracle
8 4 (5.970%) Nortel
9 3 (4.478%) EMC
10 2 (2.985%) McAfee
10 2 (2.985%) Twitter
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