The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 18 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 Wales 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 38 45 48
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 6 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.282% 1.650% 1.958%
As % of the Vendors category 3.015% 3.802% 3.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 9
Average daily rate - £295 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.23%
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 £31.00 £27.49
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +12.78%
All Vendors
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
199 263 358
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 42.52% 43.40% 50.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 113 151
Average daily rate £375 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £200 £274
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 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -34.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.00 £10.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £25.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales CheckPoint Daily Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales CheckPoint Hourly Rate Trend

CheckPoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
South Wales +8 6 - - 4
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 6 (100.00%) Juniper
1 6 (100.00%) MPLS
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (100.00%) HSRP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) CCIP
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Network Design
5 1 (16.67%) CCIE
5 1 (16.67%) CCNP

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) MPLS
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (100.00%) HSRP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Juniper
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The ideal candidate should have experience delivering support to large scale network security solutions and performing end-to-end implementation of these solutions including core and customer side...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 13 June 2013
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