The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 55 68 71
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +3
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 3 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.469% 1.104% 0.217%
As % of the Vendors category 0.946% 2.676% 0.398%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
Average daily rate - £378 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £22.50 £27.49
% change year-on-year
-12.77% -18.13%
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
317 411 503
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.61% 41.27% 54.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 148 199
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £190 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £496 £465 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 39 71
Average hourly rate £21.50 £29.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.86% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.26 £11.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
CheckPoint
East of England

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Borehamwood - - - - 1
Hitchin - - - -
Watford - - - -
CheckPoint
East of England

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) CCIE
4 3 (33.33%) CCSP
4 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) Internet
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (33.33%) CCSE
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) CCSA
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (22.22%) Crossbeam
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
5 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (22.22%) WiX
5 2 (22.22%) Change Control
5 2 (22.22%) MSBuild
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (22.22%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) Internet
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (11.11%) ATM
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (11.11%) Frame Relay
4 1 (11.11%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (22.22%) WiX
1 2 (22.22%) MSBuild
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Release Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Build Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Environment Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Project Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Project Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
2 1 (11.11%) AIX
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
3 1 (11.11%) Document Management
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCIE
1 3 (33.33%) CCSP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CCSE
1 3 (33.33%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Xen
3 1 (11.11%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Crossbeam
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Nokia
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Huawei
4 1 (11.11%) F5