The first table below looks at the demand for CCSA in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSA over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications for the Reading 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
Rank 70 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing CCSA 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.350% 0.271% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.408% 0.882% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-29.41% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
213 340 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.88% 30.77% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 127 128
Average daily rate £425 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £220 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
CCSA
Berkshire

CCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCSA across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading CCSA Jobs Demand Trend

CCSA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCSA across the Reading region.

Reading CCSA Daily Rate Trend

CCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCSA across the Reading region.

Reading CCSA Hourly Rate Trend

CCSA
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CCSA 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 CCSA.

1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
3 3 (50.00%) Internet
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) CCSE
3 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (33.33%) Sourcefire
4 2 (33.33%) Blue Coat
4 2 (33.33%) ProxySG
4 2 (33.33%) IPsec
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 2 (33.33%) F5
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (16.67%) CCNP
5 1 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS

CCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CCSA 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 CCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) Internet
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) CCSE
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Sourcefire
3 2 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) F5