West Midlands CheckPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the West Midlands 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	85
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	68	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	5.203 %	2.413 %
Daily rates quoted	13	9
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£277
Average daily rate	£350	£297
% change on same period last year	+17.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£325
% change on same period last year	+17.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.93	£33.48
Average hourly rate	£35.32	£38.37
% change on same period last year	-7.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.70	£43.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£34.11
% change on same period last year	-18.34 %
Vendors West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1307	1699
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.742 %	1.695 %
Daily rates quoted	281	385
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£321
Average daily rate	£349	£346
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	154	257
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.37	£25.61
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£27.87
% change on same period last year	-14.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£30.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Warwickshire	+14	38	£359	-
Shropshire	-	10	£406	-
Birmingham	+19	6	£298	-
Worcestershire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 60 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 51 (56.67 %) Firewall 3 37 (41.11 %) Network Design 4 34 (37.78 %) Nokia 5 24 (26.67 %) WAN 6 23 (25.56 %) LAN 7 22 (24.44 %) Cisco Certification 8 21 (23.33 %) VPN 9 20 (22.22 %) Cisco PIX 10 19 (21.11 %) OSPF 11 18 (20.00 %) Tivoli 11 18 (20.00 %) Tivoli NetView 11 18 (20.00 %) Compuware 12 17 (18.89 %) CCNA 12 17 (18.89 %) MPLS

13 16 (17.78 %) CCSA 13 16 (17.78 %) CCSE 14 15 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 14 15 (16.67 %) Nortel 14 15 (16.67 %) BGP 15 13 (14.44 %) Telecoms 16 12 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 17 11 (12.22 %) Blue Coat 18 10 (11.11 %) Government 18 10 (11.11 %) SSL 19 9 (10.00 %) Ethernet 19 9 (10.00 %) CCNP 19 9 (10.00 %) EIGRP 20 8 (8.889 %) Network Security 20 8 (8.889 %) Load Balancing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 Platforms 1 2 (2.222 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.111 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.111 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 51 (56.67 %) Firewall 2 24 (26.67 %) WAN 3 23 (25.56 %) LAN 4 21 (23.33 %) VPN 5 20 (22.22 %) Cisco PIX 6 19 (21.11 %) OSPF 7 17 (18.89 %) MPLS 8 15 (16.67 %) BGP 9 12 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 10 10 (11.11 %) SSL 11 9 (10.00 %) Ethernet 11 9 (10.00 %) EIGRP 12 8 (8.889 %) Network Security 12 8 (8.889 %) SMDS 12 8 (8.889 %) ISDN 12 8 (8.889 %) RIP 13 7 (7.778 %) Cisco ASA 14 5 (5.556 %) DHCP 14 5 (5.556 %) DNS 15 4 (4.444 %) SNMP	Development Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) PVCS 1 1 (1.111 %) ClearCase 1 1 (1.111 %) ClearQuest
General 1 13 (14.44 %) Telecoms 2 10 (11.11 %) Government 3 2 (2.222 %) Legal 3 2 (2.222 %) Auditing 3 2 (2.222 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 44 (48.89 %) Network Engineer 2 12 (13.33 %) Analyst 3 10 (11.11 %) Network Technician 4 9 (10.00 %) Network Analyst 5 8 (8.889 %) Design Engineer 5 8 (8.889 %) Support Engineer 5 8 (8.889 %) Network Designer 5 8 (8.889 %) Network Design Engineer 6 7 (7.778 %) Network Support Engineer 6 7 (7.778 %) Network Support 7 6 (6.667 %) Senior Network Engineer 8 3 (3.333 %) Cisco Engineer 8 3 (3.333 %) Security Specialist 8 3 (3.333 %) Security Engineer 8 3 (3.333 %) Consultant 9 2 (2.222 %) Senior Network Technician 9 2 (2.222 %) Firewall Engineer 9 2 (2.222 %) Auditor 9 2 (2.222 %) Cisco Network Engineer 9 2 (2.222 %) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.222 %) PKI 2 1 (1.111 %) IPTV 2 1 (1.111 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.111 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.111 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 4 (4.444 %) Windows 2 3 (3.333 %) Linux 3 2 (2.222 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.111 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (41.11 %) Network Design 2 8 (8.889 %) Load Balancing 2 8 (8.889 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (7.778 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (3.333 %) Migration 5 3 (3.333 %) Risk Assessment 6 1 (1.111 %) Change Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Validation 6 1 (1.111 %) Problem Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Incident Management 6 1 (1.111 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (1.111 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.222 %) Perl 1 2 (2.222 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 22 (24.44 %) Cisco Certification 2 17 (18.89 %) CCNA 3 16 (17.78 %) CCSA 3 16 (17.78 %) CCSE 4 9 (10.00 %) CCNP 5 4 (4.444 %) CCDP 6 3 (3.333 %) CCDA 6 3 (3.333 %) Check Point Certification 7 1 (1.111 %) Degree 7 1 (1.111 %) MCSE 7 1 (1.111 %) CCIE 7 1 (1.111 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.444 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (2.222 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.111 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 18 (20.00 %) Tivoli 1 18 (20.00 %) Tivoli NetView 2 15 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 3 1 (1.111 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.111 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (1.111 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 60 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 34 (37.78 %) Nokia 3 18 (20.00 %) Compuware 4 15 (16.67 %) Nortel 5 11 (12.22 %) Blue Coat 6 5 (5.556 %) Remedy 7 4 (4.444 %) Microsoft 8 3 (3.333 %) IBM 8 3 (3.333 %) 3Com 9 2 (2.222 %) HP 10 1 (1.111 %) Citrix 10 1 (1.111 %) Juniper 10 1 (1.111 %) Oracle 10 1 (1.111 %) Draytek 10 1 (1.111 %) ProCurve 10 1 (1.111 %) BT 10 1 (1.111 %) Symantec