The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.448% - -
As % of the Vendors category 13.33% - -
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 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
30 38 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 25.86% 15.64% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 8
Average daily rate £325 £380 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% -3.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £273 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
West Yorkshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax CheckPoint Jobs Demand Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (50.00%) CCDP
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) RIP
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) VRRP
3 2 (50.00%) NetScreen
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) FWSM
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) HSRP
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) FWSM
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) HSRP
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) RIP
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) VRRP
2 2 (50.00%) NetScreen
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Device Driver
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) CCDP
4 1 (25.00%) CCIE
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper