CheckPoint Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the West Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 81 92 75
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -17
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 18 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.073% 0.788% 1.299%
As % of the Vendors category 2.088% 1.599% 2.974%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 10
Average daily rate £300 £294 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.12% -12.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £184 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £334 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.24% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 862 1126 807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.40% 49.28% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 459 317
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 96 92
Average hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Shropshire +9 9 £338 -
Warwickshire -7 4 £280 +6.66%
Coventry - 2 £300 -
Birmingham +9 1 £398 +22.30%
Herefordshire - 1 £250 -
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 11 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (31.82%) CCSE
4 6 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 6 (27.27%) CCNP
4 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 6 (27.27%) Juniper
4 6 (27.27%) Project Management
5 5 (22.73%) OSPF
5 5 (22.73%) BGP
5 5 (22.73%) Nokia
5 5 (22.73%) MS Office
5 5 (22.73%) Network Design
5 5 (22.73%) Network Management
6 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
6 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
6 4 (18.18%) MS Project
6 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (18.18%) HP
6 4 (18.18%) Finance
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) OPNET
7 3 (13.64%) BMC
7 3 (13.64%) IBM
7 3 (13.64%) LAN
7 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 2 (9.091%) Middleware
3 1 (4.545%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Office
2 4 (18.18%) MS Project
2 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) OSPF
2 5 (22.73%) BGP
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (13.64%) LAN
4 3 (13.64%) BIG-IP
5 2 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (9.091%) WAN
6 1 (4.545%) Extranet
6 1 (4.545%) SAN
6 1 (4.545%) DHCP
6 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.545%) DNS
6 1 (4.545%) VoIP
6 1 (4.545%) Network Security
6 1 (4.545%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.545%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle OWB
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Network Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Project Officer
3 2 (9.091%) Project Support Officer
3 2 (9.091%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Programme Support Officer
3 2 (9.091%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) iSeries
1 2 (9.091%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (9.091%) Mainframe
1 2 (9.091%) Clustering
2 1 (4.545%) Equities
2 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.545%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) PRINCE2
1 6 (27.27%) Project Management
2 5 (22.73%) Network Design
2 5 (22.73%) Network Management
3 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 2 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.091%) Programme Management
6 1 (4.545%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.545%) CRM
6 1 (4.545%) Test Management
6 1 (4.545%) Fund Management
6 1 (4.545%) Wealth Management
6 1 (4.545%) Automated Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Business Transformation
6 1 (4.545%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) Java
1 1 (4.545%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) CCSE
2 6 (27.27%) CCNP
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.091%) CCSA
5 1 (4.545%) CCSP
5 1 (4.545%) ISEB
5 1 (4.545%) CISSP
5 1 (4.545%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.545%) CCDP
5 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.545%) BC Cleared
5 1 (4.545%) ISEB Practitioner
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) OpenView
2 1 (4.545%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.545%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (4.545%) HP SIM
2 1 (4.545%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 6 (27.27%) Juniper
3 5 (22.73%) Nokia
4 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) HP
5 3 (13.64%) OPNET
5 3 (13.64%) BMC
5 3 (13.64%) IBM
5 3 (13.64%) F5
6 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.545%) VMware
7 1 (4.545%) McAfee
7 1 (4.545%) webMethods
7 1 (4.545%) NetApp
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle
7 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.545%) ProCurve
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