The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 57 46 73
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +27
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 16 35 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.818% 3.041% 0.494%
As % of the Vendors category 3.320% 5.738% 0.867%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 2
Average daily rate £344 £250 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -34.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £214 £356
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £326 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £22.50 £27.49
% change year-on-year
-12.77% -18.13%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
482 610 577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 54.77% 53.00% 57.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 197 219
Average daily rate £336 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.10% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £221 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 27
Average hourly rate £27.50 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.56% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £31.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
CheckPoint
Berkshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading CheckPoint Daily Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading CheckPoint Daily Rate Histogram

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco
3 11 (55.00%) Network Security
4 10 (50.00%) Blue Coat
5 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (35.00%) ProxySG
6 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (35.00%) F5
7 6 (30.00%) FWSM
7 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (30.00%) Windows
7 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
8 5 (25.00%) CCSA
8 5 (25.00%) WAN
8 5 (25.00%) CCNP
8 5 (25.00%) SSL
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
9 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
9 4 (20.00%) DHCP
9 4 (20.00%) DNS
9 4 (20.00%) CISSP
10 3 (15.00%) Juniper
10 3 (15.00%) Nokia
10 3 (15.00%) Internet
10 3 (15.00%) Finance
10 3 (15.00%) UNIX
10 3 (15.00%) SNMP
10 3 (15.00%) SMTP
10 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (15.00%) BIG-IP

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (5.000%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) Network Security
3 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (30.00%) FWSM
6 5 (25.00%) WAN
6 5 (25.00%) SSL
6 5 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
7 4 (20.00%) DHCP
7 4 (20.00%) DNS
8 3 (15.00%) Internet
8 3 (15.00%) SNMP
8 3 (15.00%) SMTP
8 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (15.00%) BIG-IP
9 2 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (10.00%) VPN
9 2 (10.00%) IPsec
9 2 (10.00%) 3G
9 2 (10.00%) MPLS
General
1 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.000%) Billing
4 1 (5.000%) French Language
4 1 (5.000%) German Language
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) IP Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Consultant
5 3 (15.00%) Security Consultant
5 3 (15.00%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support
7 1 (5.000%) Network Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Design Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Help Desk Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.000%) Validation
2 1 (5.000%) Migration
2 1 (5.000%) ITIL
2 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
2 1 (5.000%) CRM
2 1 (5.000%) Network Design
2 1 (5.000%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (5.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) C#
2 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CCSA
2 5 (25.00%) CCNP
3 4 (20.00%) CISSP
4 3 (15.00%) CCSE
5 1 (5.000%) CCIE
5 1 (5.000%) CCSP
5 1 (5.000%) CCNA
5 1 (5.000%) CCDP
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.000%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.000%) MCP
5 1 (5.000%) JNCIS
5 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
1 1 (5.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Blue Coat
3 7 (35.00%) F5
4 3 (15.00%) Juniper
4 3 (15.00%) Nokia
5 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.000%) McAfee
6 1 (5.000%) VMware
6 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.000%) Dell
6 1 (5.000%) Redback
6 1 (5.000%) Sourcefire
6 1 (5.000%) LANDesk
6 1 (5.000%) WatchGuard
6 1 (5.000%) Riverbed