Oxfordshire CheckPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim 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 Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire 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 Romford 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 Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	46
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	5	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	1.656 %	5.556 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£400
Average daily rate	£346	£409
% change on same period last year	-15.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£324
% change on same period last year	+15.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£42.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.65	£34.42
% change on same period last year	-22.57 %
Vendors Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	302	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.399 %	0.215 %
Daily rates quoted	83	36
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£354
Average daily rate	£358	£368
% change on same period last year	-2.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.05	£22.18
Average hourly rate	£22.18	£24.07
% change on same period last year	-7.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.31	£25.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
CheckPoint South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Oxford	-7	5	£346	-21.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 %) Cisco Certification 3 5 (55.56 %) Nokia 3 5 (55.56 %) CiscoWorks 3 5 (55.56 %) Firewall 4 4 (44.44 %) OSPF 4 4 (44.44 %) CCNP 4 4 (44.44 %) DNS 5 3 (33.33 %) Windows 5 3 (33.33 %) Linux 5 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 5 3 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (33.33 %) Internet 5 3 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (33.33 %) TippingPoint

5 3 (33.33 %) CCSA 5 3 (33.33 %) Blue Coat 6 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (22.22 %) Red Hat 6 2 (22.22 %) Red Hat Linux 6 2 (22.22 %) Nortel 6 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (22.22 %) Perl 6 2 (22.22 %) SQL 6 2 (22.22 %) IIS 6 2 (22.22 %) VPN 6 2 (22.22 %) Apache 6 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (22.22 %) WAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Platforms 1 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (22.22 %) IIS 1 2 (22.22 %) Apache 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Domino	Communications & Networking 1 5 (55.56 %) Firewall 2 4 (44.44 %) OSPF 2 4 (44.44 %) DNS 3 3 (33.33 %) Internet 3 3 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (22.22 %) VPN 4 2 (22.22 %) WAN 5 1 (11.11 %) DHCP 5 1 (11.11 %) Ethernet 5 1 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (11.11 %) LAN 5 1 (11.11 %) MPLS 5 1 (11.11 %) Network Security 5 1 (11.11 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (11.11 %) Cisco IOS 5 1 (11.11 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Health
Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Network Engineer 1 5 (55.56 %) Cisco Engineer 1 5 (55.56 %) Cisco Network Engineer 2 3 (33.33 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (22.22 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 2 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) Data Manager 4 1 (11.11 %) Network Support 4 1 (11.11 %) Network Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) Data Centre Manager 4 1 (11.11 %) Cisco Support	Operating Systems 1 3 (33.33 %) Windows 1 3 (33.33 %) Linux 1 3 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (22.22 %) Red Hat Linux 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (11.11 %) ITIL 1 1 (11.11 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (11.11 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (22.22 %) Perl 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (77.78 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (44.44 %) CCNP 3 3 (33.33 %) CCSA 4 1 (11.11 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (11.11 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 5 (55.56 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 8 (88.89 %) Cisco 2 5 (55.56 %) Nokia 3 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 3 (33.33 %) TippingPoint 3 3 (33.33 %) Blue Coat 4 2 (22.22 %) Red Hat 4 2 (22.22 %) Nortel 5 1 (11.11 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (11.11 %) Lotus