The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank - 47 -
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 0 14 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes - 1.958% -
As % of the Vendors category - 3.857% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £313 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.24% +6.15%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
239 363 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 45.52% 50.77% 43.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 137 98
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £212 £152
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 43
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.04 £13.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £47.50 £19.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
Buckinghamshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve