The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Doncaster region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 17 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 Doncaster 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 9 10 7
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 2.778% 4.000% 6.667%
As % of the Vendors category 4.167% 5.556% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.47% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £23.50 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.90% +5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
Doncaster
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
24 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 66.67% 72.00% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 2
Average daily rate £395 £318 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.40% +27.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £22.75 £22.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.40% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £14.25 £16.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.50 £27.00 £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
South Yorkshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows NT
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CA
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) Unicenter
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows NT
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) CA
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat