The first table below looks at the demand for CCSE in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSE 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 Qualifications for the East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank 106 128 126
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -2
Contract jobs citing CCSE 8 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.374% 0.135% 0.038%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.156% 0.737% 0.233%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
Average daily rate £413 £320 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.90% +1.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-13.23% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
371 543 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.34% 18.38% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 270 149
Average daily rate £325 £320 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £125 £93
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £450 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 58 77
Average hourly rate £25.00 £34.25 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.00% +42.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.75 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.80 £47.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCSE
England

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England CCSE Jobs Demand Trend

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCSE across the East of England region.

East of England CCSE Daily Rate Trend

CCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +5 8 £413 -
CCSE
England

CCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing CCSE 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 CCSE.

1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 12 (100.00%) Network Security
2 9 (75.00%) F5
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (66.67%) Project Management
3 8 (66.67%) CCIE
3 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 8 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (66.67%) Blue Coat
3 8 (66.67%) ProxySG
3 8 (66.67%) BIG-IP
4 6 (50.00%) Fat Client
4 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (50.00%) Juniper
4 6 (50.00%) Thin Client
4 6 (50.00%) CCNP
5 5 (41.67%) HP
5 5 (41.67%) Citrix
5 5 (41.67%) NetScreen
5 5 (41.67%) VoIP
5 5 (41.67%) DHCP
5 5 (41.67%) C
5 5 (41.67%) DNS
5 5 (41.67%) Linux
5 5 (41.67%) Infoblox
5 5 (41.67%) Imperva
5 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (41.67%) OSPF

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing CCSE 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 CCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Network Security
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (66.67%) BIG-IP
4 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (41.67%) NetScreen
5 5 (41.67%) VoIP
5 5 (41.67%) DHCP
5 5 (41.67%) DNS
5 5 (41.67%) OSPF
5 5 (41.67%) DMVPN
6 4 (33.33%) VPN
7 1 (8.333%) FWSM
7 1 (8.333%) WAAS
7 1 (8.333%) IPsec
7 1 (8.333%) MPLS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce Specialist
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security Specialist
1 5 (41.67%) Network Specialist
1 5 (41.67%) Security Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 6 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Project Management
1 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) Network Design
4 1 (8.333%) Programme Office Management
4 1 (8.333%) Release Management
4 1 (8.333%) Change Control
4 1 (8.333%) Security Architecture
4 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (66.67%) CCIE
3 6 (50.00%) CCNP
4 4 (33.33%) CCSA
4 4 (33.33%) CCSP
5 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (8.333%) JNCIA
6 1 (8.333%) CCNA
6 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (8.333%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) ProxySG
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) Snort
3 1 (8.333%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 9 (75.00%) F5
3 8 (66.67%) Blue Coat
4 6 (50.00%) Juniper
5 5 (41.67%) HP
5 5 (41.67%) Citrix
5 5 (41.67%) Infoblox
5 5 (41.67%) Imperva
5 5 (41.67%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (8.333%) Sourcefire
7 1 (8.333%) Crossbeam
7 1 (8.333%) Oracle
7 1 (8.333%) SAP