The first table below looks at the demand for CCSA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSA over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
Rank 510 524 550
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +26
Contract jobs citing CCSA 19 60 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.103% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.226% 0.596% 0.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 20
Average daily rate £325 £400 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +22.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £305 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £521 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £425 £305
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +39.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8414 10063 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.25% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4503 5233 4635
Average daily rate £375 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 552 658
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

CCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

CCSA Daily Rate Trend

CCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCSA within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

CCSA Daily Rate Histogram

CCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CCSA Hourly Rate Trend

CCSA
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +5 18 £325 -18.75%
London +15 6 £365 -8.75%
South East +8 5 £315 -30.00%
City of London +3 5 £328 -18.12%
Yorkshire - 5 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 5 £325 -
Leeds - 5 £325 -
Berkshire +16 4 - -
Reading +16 3 - -
East of England +15 1 - -
Cambridgeshire +11 1 - -
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Hampshire -15 1 £315 -30.00%
Shropshire - 1 - -
Telford - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £315 -
Peterborough - 1 - -

CCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 43 (84.31%) CheckPoint
2 40 (78.43%) Cisco
3 34 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (66.67%) Firewall
4 32 (62.75%) CCSE
5 26 (50.98%) Network Security
6 23 (45.10%) Juniper
7 22 (43.14%) CCNP
8 17 (33.33%) CCNA
8 17 (33.33%) VPN
8 17 (33.33%) F5
9 16 (31.37%) LAN
9 16 (31.37%) WAN
10 13 (25.49%) Blue Coat
10 13 (25.49%) ITIL
10 13 (25.49%) CISSP
11 10 (19.61%) CCSP
12 9 (17.65%) Windows
12 9 (17.65%) Internet
12 9 (17.65%) ProxySG
13 8 (15.69%) Fortinet
13 8 (15.69%) CCIE
13 8 (15.69%) UNIX
14 7 (13.73%) MPLS
14 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (13.73%) Sourcefire
14 7 (13.73%) IPsec
15 6 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
15 6 (11.76%) BGP

CCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 1 (1.961%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.961%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.961%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (66.67%) Firewall
2 26 (50.98%) Network Security
3 17 (33.33%) VPN
4 16 (31.37%) LAN
4 16 (31.37%) WAN
5 9 (17.65%) Internet
6 7 (13.73%) MPLS
6 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (13.73%) IPsec
7 6 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (11.76%) BGP
7 6 (11.76%) SSL
8 5 (9.804%) OSPF
9 4 (7.843%) TCP/IP
9 4 (7.843%) FWSM
10 3 (5.882%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (5.882%) HTTP
10 3 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (3.922%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (3.922%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.961%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.922%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.961%) French Language
2 1 (1.961%) Banking
2 1 (1.961%) Retail
2 1 (1.961%) Finance
2 1 (1.961%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Network Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Security Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Consultant
4 8 (15.69%) Security Consultant
5 7 (13.73%) Network Security Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Network Consultant
7 5 (9.804%) Network Security Consultant
7 5 (9.804%) Firewall Engineer
7 5 (9.804%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (7.843%) Analyst
9 3 (5.882%) Security Support Engineer
9 3 (5.882%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.882%) Security Analyst
10 2 (3.922%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (3.922%) Operations Analyst
10 2 (3.922%) Security Architect
10 2 (3.922%) NOC Engineer
10 2 (3.922%) Network Architect
10 2 (3.922%) Senior Security Analyst
10 2 (3.922%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.961%) Thin Client
2 1 (1.961%) Fat Client
2 1 (1.961%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) UNIX
3 5 (9.804%) Linux
4 1 (1.961%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) ITIL
2 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
3 5 (9.804%) Load Balancing
4 4 (7.843%) Network Architecture
5 3 (5.882%) SIEM
5 3 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (3.922%) Network Design
6 2 (3.922%) Network Management
6 2 (3.922%) Project Management
6 2 (3.922%) Security Architecture
7 1 (1.961%) Build Automation
7 1 (1.961%) Change Control
7 1 (1.961%) ITIL V3
7 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.961%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.961%) ITSM
7 1 (1.961%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.961%) PRINCE
7 1 (1.961%) Release Management
7 1 (1.961%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.922%) Perl
2 1 (1.961%) SQL
2 1 (1.961%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 34 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (62.75%) CCSE
3 22 (43.14%) CCNP
4 17 (33.33%) CCNA
5 13 (25.49%) CISSP
6 10 (19.61%) CCSP
7 8 (15.69%) CCIE
8 5 (9.804%) JNCIA
9 4 (7.843%) CCDA
10 3 (5.882%) CCDP
10 3 (5.882%) Check Point Certification
10 3 (5.882%) SC Cleared
10 3 (5.882%) Security Cleared
11 2 (3.922%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (3.922%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (3.922%) MCSE
12 1 (1.961%) CISA
12 1 (1.961%) CISM
12 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (1.961%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.843%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.961%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) ProxySG
2 1 (1.961%) NFS
2 1 (1.961%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (1.961%) UAG
2 1 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.961%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (3.922%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 43 (84.31%) CheckPoint
2 40 (78.43%) Cisco
3 23 (45.10%) Juniper
4 17 (33.33%) F5
5 13 (25.49%) Blue Coat
6 8 (15.69%) Fortinet
7 7 (13.73%) Sourcefire
8 4 (7.843%) Crossbeam
9 3 (5.882%) Clearswift
9 3 (5.882%) Nokia
10 2 (3.922%) Qualys
10 2 (3.922%) McAfee
10 2 (3.922%) Symantec
10 2 (3.922%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.922%) Twitter
11 1 (1.961%) Oracle
11 1 (1.961%) SAP
11 1 (1.961%) HP
11 1 (1.961%) Citrix
11 1 (1.961%) VMware