Milton Keynes CheckPoint Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	62
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.222 %	1.777 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£329
% change on same period last year	+15.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.00	£33.37
% change on same period last year	-16.10 %
Vendors Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	315	394
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.424 %	0.394 %
Daily rates quoted	89	83
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£280
Average daily rate	£325	£298
% change on same period last year	+9.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.60	£28.85
Average hourly rate	£24.12	£29.78
% change on same period last year	-19.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£30.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£24.68
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Check Point Software Technologies.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CheckPoint across the Milton Keynes region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Milton Keynes region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, 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 11 (100.00 %) Firewall 2 10 (90.91 %) Cisco 2 10 (90.91 %) Cisco PIX 3 9 (81.82 %) Blue Coat 4 7 (63.64 %) Crossbeam 4 7 (63.64 %) Nokia 4 7 (63.64 %) NetScreen 5 2 (18.18 %) SurfControl 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows NT 5 2 (18.18 %) SLA

5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 2 (18.18 %) CCIE 5 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 5 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 5 2 (18.18 %) OpenView 5 2 (18.18 %) HP 5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (18.18 %) CNE 5 2 (18.18 %) Novell Certification 5 2 (18.18 %) Finjan 5 2 (18.18 %) OVOW 5 2 (18.18 %) Network Security 5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco ASA 6 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, 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 11 (100.00 %) Firewall 2 10 (90.91 %) Cisco PIX 3 7 (63.64 %) NetScreen 4 2 (18.18 %) Network Security 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco ASA	Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Analyst 1 7 (63.64 %) Senior Analyst 1 7 (63.64 %) Security Analyst 1 7 (63.64 %) Senior Security Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Support Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Support 3 2 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Support 3 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Security Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Security Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Specialist 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Support
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows NT 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) ITSM 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 1 2 (18.18 %) CCIE 1 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 1 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (18.18 %) CNE 1 2 (18.18 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 2 1 (9.091 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) OpenView 1 2 (18.18 %) OVOW
Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) Cisco 2 9 (81.82 %) Blue Coat 3 7 (63.64 %) Crossbeam 3 7 (63.64 %) Nokia 4 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 4 2 (18.18 %) HP 4 2 (18.18 %) Finjan 4 2 (18.18 %) SurfControl 5 1 (9.091 %) Symantec