North West CheckPoint Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	123	115
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	0.456 %	1.567 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£414	£273
Average daily rate	£442	£286
% change on same period last year	+54.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£323
% change on same period last year	+24.96 %
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	£29.74	£31.77
% change on same period last year	-6.38 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1535	1914
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.144 %	1.923 %
Daily rates quoted	326	428
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£321
Average daily rate	£348	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	198
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.20	£20.08
Average hourly rate	£22.66	£21.65
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.11	£23.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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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 North West 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 North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 North West region.

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-3	4	£403	-
Cheshire	+1	2	£600	+157.14 %
Merseyside	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 10 (66.67 %) Firewall 2 8 (53.33 %) Cisco 3 5 (33.33 %) VPN 3 5 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 3 5 (33.33 %) Windows 4 4 (26.67 %) Internet 4 4 (26.67 %) Juniper 5 3 (20.00 %) Lucent 5 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (20.00 %) CCNP 5 3 (20.00 %) CCNA 5 3 (20.00 %) LAN 5 3 (20.00 %) WAN 5 3 (20.00 %) Risk Assessment 5 3 (20.00 %) PKI

5 3 (20.00 %) VLAN 5 3 (20.00 %) Finance 6 2 (13.33 %) Network Security 6 2 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (13.33 %) Penetration Testing 6 2 (13.33 %) BIG-IP 6 2 (13.33 %) MPLS 6 2 (13.33 %) HTTP 6 2 (13.33 %) SQL 6 2 (13.33 %) HPUX 6 2 (13.33 %) Solaris 6 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 6 2 (13.33 %) SSL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (6.667 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Project 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.667 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 10 (66.67 %) Firewall 2 5 (33.33 %) VPN 3 4 (26.67 %) Internet 4 3 (20.00 %) LAN 4 3 (20.00 %) WAN 4 3 (20.00 %) VLAN 5 2 (13.33 %) Network Security 5 2 (13.33 %) HTTP 5 2 (13.33 %) SSL 5 2 (13.33 %) MPLS 5 2 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (13.33 %) BIG-IP 6 1 (6.667 %) SMDS 6 1 (6.667 %) OSPF 6 1 (6.667 %) BGP 6 1 (6.667 %) EIGRP 6 1 (6.667 %) SAN 6 1 (6.667 %) ADSL 6 1 (6.667 %) ATM 6 1 (6.667 %) IPX	General 1 3 (20.00 %) Finance 2 1 (6.667 %) Government
Job Titles 1 5 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 4 (26.67 %) Security Consultant 3 3 (20.00 %) Technical Consultant 3 3 (20.00 %) Technical Security Consultant 4 2 (13.33 %) Security Specialist 4 2 (13.33 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Applications Packager 5 1 (6.667 %) Support Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) Network Support 5 1 (6.667 %) Security Architect 5 1 (6.667 %) Security Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Senior Management Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Network Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Architect 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Management Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Server Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) Network Support Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) Firewall Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) Firewall Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (20.00 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 5 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (13.33 %) HPUX 2 2 (13.33 %) Solaris 2 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows NT 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows XP 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (20.00 %) Risk Assessment 2 2 (13.33 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Logistics 3 1 (6.667 %) Resource Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Problem Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Programme Management 3 1 (6.667 %) TOGAF 3 1 (6.667 %) Information Management 3 1 (6.667 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (13.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (20.00 %) CCNP 2 3 (20.00 %) CCNA 3 1 (6.667 %) CISSP 3 1 (6.667 %) MCSE 3 1 (6.667 %) CCIE 3 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (6.667 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (13.33 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.667 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (6.667 %) DameWare 1 1 (6.667 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 8 (53.33 %) Cisco 2 4 (26.67 %) Juniper 3 3 (20.00 %) Lucent 3 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft 4 2 (13.33 %) Citrix 4 2 (13.33 %) Nokia 5 1 (6.667 %) Websense 5 1 (6.667 %) BT 5 1 (6.667 %) VMware 5 1 (6.667 %) Blue Coat 5 1 (6.667 %) Finjan 5 1 (6.667 %) Avaya 5 1 (6.667 %) HP