The first table below looks at the demand for CCSE in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSE over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank 483 505 533
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +28
Contract jobs citing CCSE 35 57 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.084% 0.107% 0.070%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.471% 0.613% 0.443%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 31
Average daily rate £383 £400 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.37% +9.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £305 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-13.23% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +36.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7428 9291 9029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.40% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3948 4922 4412
Average daily rate £378 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.58% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 516 619
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCSE
UK

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England CCSE Daily Rate Trend

CCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCSE across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England CCSE Daily Rate Histogram

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCSE across the England region.

England CCSE Hourly 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 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
East of England +22 8 £413 +28.90%
Yorkshire - 6 £363 -
London +13 5 £426 +6.56%
South East +12 5 £315 -30.00%
West Midlands +12 5 £300 -
CCSE
UK

CCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 60 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 52 (86.67%) Cisco
3 47 (78.33%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (63.33%) CCNP
5 37 (61.67%) Network Security
6 36 (60.00%) Firewall
7 30 (50.00%) CCSA
8 24 (40.00%) CCIE
9 21 (35.00%) CCNA
9 21 (35.00%) Project Management
10 19 (31.67%) Juniper
11 17 (28.33%) LAN
11 17 (28.33%) Network Design
11 17 (28.33%) F5
12 16 (26.67%) Blue Coat
13 13 (21.67%) Check Point Certification
14 12 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (18.33%) 4G
15 11 (18.33%) 3G
15 11 (18.33%) 802.11
15 11 (18.33%) OSPF
15 11 (18.33%) CCSP
15 11 (18.33%) Wireless
15 11 (18.33%) Change Management
15 11 (18.33%) Cisco IOS
16 10 (16.67%) ProxySG
16 10 (16.67%) VPN
16 10 (16.67%) E-Commerce
17 9 (15.00%) BIG-IP
18 8 (13.33%) Fortinet

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (1.667%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (1.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 37 (61.67%) Network Security
2 36 (60.00%) Firewall
3 17 (28.33%) LAN
4 12 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (18.33%) 4G
5 11 (18.33%) 3G
5 11 (18.33%) 802.11
5 11 (18.33%) OSPF
5 11 (18.33%) Wireless
5 11 (18.33%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (16.67%) VPN
7 9 (15.00%) BIG-IP
8 8 (13.33%) Internet
9 7 (11.67%) MPLS
9 7 (11.67%) NetScreen
10 6 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (10.00%) DNS
10 6 (10.00%) VoIP
10 6 (10.00%) WAN
10 6 (10.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (6.667%) Finance
2 2 (3.333%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.667%) French Language
3 1 (1.667%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (1.667%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Designer
2 11 (18.33%) Network Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Consultant
4 7 (11.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
5 6 (10.00%) Network Security Specialist
5 6 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Network Specialist
5 6 (10.00%) Security Specialist
6 5 (8.333%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) Security Consultant
7 4 (6.667%) Analyst
8 3 (5.000%) Cisco Consultant
8 3 (5.000%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (5.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (5.000%) Security Support Engineer
9 2 (3.333%) Security Analyst
9 2 (3.333%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Thin Client
1 7 (11.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (3.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.667%) PKI
3 1 (1.667%) Clustering
3 1 (1.667%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (8.333%) UNIX
4 1 (1.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Project Management
2 17 (28.33%) Network Design
3 11 (18.33%) Change Management
4 10 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 4 (6.667%) Load Balancing
5 4 (6.667%) ITIL
5 4 (6.667%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (3.333%) SIEM
7 2 (3.333%) Security Architecture
7 2 (3.333%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.333%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (1.667%) PRINCE
8 1 (1.667%) Fund Management
8 1 (1.667%) Wealth Management
8 1 (1.667%) Release Management
8 1 (1.667%) Programme Office Management
8 1 (1.667%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.667%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) C
2 1 (1.667%) Perl
2 1 (1.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (78.33%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (63.33%) CCNP
3 30 (50.00%) CCSA
4 24 (40.00%) CCIE
5 21 (35.00%) CCNA
6 13 (21.67%) Check Point Certification
7 11 (18.33%) CCSP
8 6 (10.00%) CISSP
9 4 (6.667%) JNCIA
9 4 (6.667%) CCDA
9 4 (6.667%) CCDP
10 3 (5.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (5.000%) SC Cleared
10 3 (5.000%) Security Cleared
11 2 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (3.333%) MCSE
12 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (1.667%) Degree
12 1 (1.667%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) ProxySG
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.667%) NFS
3 1 (1.667%) Snort
3 1 (1.667%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (1.667%) UAG
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 6 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.667%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 52 (86.67%) Cisco
3 19 (31.67%) Juniper
4 17 (28.33%) F5
5 16 (26.67%) Blue Coat
6 8 (13.33%) Fortinet
7 7 (11.67%) Citrix
8 6 (10.00%) VMware
8 6 (10.00%) HP
8 6 (10.00%) Infoblox
8 6 (10.00%) Imperva
9 4 (6.667%) Crossbeam
9 4 (6.667%) Nokia
10 3 (5.000%) McAfee
11 2 (3.333%) Twitter
11 2 (3.333%) Clearswift
12 1 (1.667%) SAP
12 1 (1.667%) Oracle
12 1 (1.667%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.667%) NetApp
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Austin Fraser are currently looking for a Network Security Engineerbased in Leeds for an initial 6 month contract with view to extensions. The role of the Network Security...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013