The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 21 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 East Sussex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.877% - -
As % of the Vendors category 4.545% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £365 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
44 91 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 19.30% 28.26% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 46 17
Average daily rate £425 £380 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.84% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
Average hourly rate £22.25 £17.88 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.47% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.89 £12.90 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.70 £38.20 £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Brighton - 1 £365 -
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (75.00%) ProCurve
3 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (50.00%) WSUS
3 2 (50.00%) Altiris
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) VRRP
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) VRRP
4 1 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
1 3 (75.00%) NetApp
1 3 (75.00%) ProCurve
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Altiris
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Mitel