Scotland CheckPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim Crewe Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	99
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	12	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	1.015 %	1.834 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£258
Average daily rate	-	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£261
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£319
% change on same period last year	+9.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.67
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.48	£34.11
% change on same period last year	-25.30 %
Vendors Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1182	1581
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.576 %	1.600 %
Daily rates quoted	220	300
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£297
Average daily rate	£333	£310
% change on same period last year	+7.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	75	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.47	£18.48
Average hourly rate	£22.97	£19.43
% change on same period last year	+18.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.47	£20.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Edinburgh	+11	11	-	-
Glasgow	+4	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (76.92 %) Firewall 2 19 (73.08 %) Cisco 3 11 (42.31 %) Nokia 4 9 (34.62 %) Cisco PIX 5 8 (30.77 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (30.77 %) VPN 6 7 (26.92 %) SSL 6 7 (26.92 %) CCNP 6 7 (26.92 %) Network Security 7 6 (23.08 %) Blue Coat 8 5 (19.23 %) IPsec 8 5 (19.23 %) WAN 8 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (19.23 %) LAN 9 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft

9 4 (15.38 %) Active Directory 10 3 (11.54 %) CCNA 10 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (11.54 %) LDAP 10 3 (11.54 %) UNIX 10 3 (11.54 %) Telecoms 10 3 (11.54 %) CCSE 10 3 (11.54 %) CCSA 10 3 (11.54 %) PKI 11 2 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 2 (7.692 %) CMS 11 2 (7.692 %) Risk Assessment 11 2 (7.692 %) Finance 11 2 (7.692 %) Migration 11 2 (7.692 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (3.846 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) CMS 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 20 (76.92 %) Firewall 2 9 (34.62 %) Cisco PIX 3 8 (30.77 %) VPN 4 7 (26.92 %) SSL 4 7 (26.92 %) Network Security 5 5 (19.23 %) IPsec 5 5 (19.23 %) LAN 5 5 (19.23 %) WAN 5 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (11.54 %) LDAP 7 2 (7.692 %) VoIP 7 2 (7.692 %) OSPF 7 2 (7.692 %) BGP 8 1 (3.846 %) MPLS 8 1 (3.846 %) Intrusion Detection 8 1 (3.846 %) Nortel Meridian 8 1 (3.846 %) Cisco IOS	General 1 3 (11.54 %) Telecoms 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 3 1 (3.846 %) Government 3 1 (3.846 %) Law 3 1 (3.846 %) Police 3 1 (3.846 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Network Consultant 1 7 (26.92 %) Consultant 2 6 (23.08 %) Network Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Cisco Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Network Security Consultant 3 3 (11.54 %) Firewall Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Security Consultant 4 2 (7.692 %) Test Manager 4 2 (7.692 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Security Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Implementation Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Security Specialist 5 1 (3.846 %) Network Designer 5 1 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (3.846 %) Administrator 5 1 (3.846 %) Field Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Test Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Technical Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 3 (11.54 %) UNIX 2 2 (7.692 %) Windows 2 2 (7.692 %) Linux 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Migration 1 2 (7.692 %) Risk Assessment 1 2 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (3.846 %) Time Management 2 1 (3.846 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.846 %) Network Design 2 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.846 %) Change Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) Java	Qualifications 1 8 (30.77 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (26.92 %) CCNP 3 3 (11.54 %) CCNA 3 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (11.54 %) CCSA 3 3 (11.54 %) CCSE 4 2 (7.692 %) CCSP 5 1 (3.846 %) Check Point Certification 5 1 (3.846 %) HNC 5 1 (3.846 %) CCIE 5 1 (3.846 %) CCDP 5 1 (3.846 %) CISSP
System Software 1 4 (15.38 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 19 (73.08 %) Cisco 2 11 (42.31 %) Nokia 3 6 (23.08 %) Blue Coat 4 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 5 2 (7.692 %) Sun 5 2 (7.692 %) Juniper 6 1 (3.846 %) Siemens 6 1 (3.846 %) Mitel 6 1 (3.846 %) Nortel 6 1 (3.846 %) Citrix