The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CheckPoint 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 Vendors for the Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 85 109 88
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -21
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 25 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.346% 0.134% 0.547%
As % of the Vendors category 2.897% 0.292% 1.362%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
Average daily rate £330 £350 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +105.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £23.50 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.90% +5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £31.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-36.69% +32.70%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
863 1027 734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.45% 45.97% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 516 301
Average daily rate £320 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 76 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.90% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.75 £36.50
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +16 14 £328 -6.42%
North Yorkshire - 10 £363 -
South Yorkshire +2 1 - -
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 38 (92.68%) Cisco
2 32 (78.05%) Firewall
3 19 (46.34%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (46.34%) Cisco ASA
4 15 (36.59%) CCNP
5 14 (34.15%) Windows
6 13 (31.71%) VPN
7 12 (29.27%) LAN
7 12 (29.27%) Network Security
8 11 (26.83%) CCNA
9 10 (24.39%) WAN
9 10 (24.39%) Linux
9 10 (24.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (24.39%) F5
10 9 (21.95%) vSphere
10 9 (21.95%) CCSE
10 9 (21.95%) BIG-IP
10 9 (21.95%) Juniper
10 9 (21.95%) HP
11 8 (19.51%) VMware
11 8 (19.51%) OSPF
11 8 (19.51%) Cisco PIX
12 7 (17.07%) Blue Coat
12 7 (17.07%) FWSM
12 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
12 7 (17.07%) Oracle
13 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
13 6 (14.63%) Nokia
13 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
13 6 (14.63%) BGP

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (7.317%) CSS
2 1 (2.439%) J2EE
2 1 (2.439%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) MS Exchange
1 5 (12.20%) IIS
1 5 (12.20%) Apache
2 4 (9.756%) Tomcat
2 4 (9.756%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.317%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.878%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Office
2 2 (4.878%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (78.05%) Firewall
2 19 (46.34%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (31.71%) VPN
4 12 (29.27%) LAN
4 12 (29.27%) Network Security
5 10 (24.39%) WAN
6 9 (21.95%) BIG-IP
7 8 (19.51%) OSPF
7 8 (19.51%) Cisco PIX
8 7 (17.07%) FWSM
9 6 (14.63%) BGP
9 6 (14.63%) VLAN
9 6 (14.63%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (12.20%) SAN
11 4 (9.756%) IPsec
12 3 (7.317%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (7.317%) NAS
12 3 (7.317%) iSCSI
12 3 (7.317%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.317%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (4.878%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (2.439%) CruiseControl
2 1 (2.439%) Maven
General
1 6 (14.63%) Finance
1 6 (14.63%) Banking
2 2 (4.878%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.878%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Analyst
1 10 (24.39%) Network Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Network Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Network Specialist
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.756%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.756%) Build Engineer
5 3 (7.317%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.317%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.317%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.878%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.878%) Support Specialist
6 2 (4.878%) Design Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.878%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.878%) Network Security Specialist
6 2 (4.878%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) Clustering
2 2 (4.878%) NHS
2 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.878%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.439%) PDA
3 1 (2.439%) SecurID
3 1 (2.439%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.439%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (12.20%) UNIX
4 4 (9.756%) Debian
4 4 (9.756%) Ubuntu
4 4 (9.756%) CentOS
4 4 (9.756%) Windows 7
5 3 (7.317%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.439%) HPUX
6 1 (2.439%) Solaris
6 1 (2.439%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.439%) VMS
6 1 (2.439%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
2 5 (12.20%) Project Management
2 5 (12.20%) ITIL
3 4 (9.756%) Load Balancing
3 4 (9.756%) Incident Management
4 3 (7.317%) Network Management
4 3 (7.317%) CRM
5 2 (4.878%) PRINCE2
5 2 (4.878%) Performance Management
5 2 (4.878%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.878%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (4.878%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.439%) Integration Testing
6 1 (2.439%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (2.439%) Network Design
6 1 (2.439%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.439%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.439%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.756%) SQL
2 1 (2.439%) C
2 1 (2.439%) Java
2 1 (2.439%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (36.59%) CCNP
3 11 (26.83%) CCNA
4 9 (21.95%) CCSE
5 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
6 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
6 5 (12.20%) CCSA
7 3 (7.317%) CCIE
8 2 (4.878%) CCSP
8 2 (4.878%) CCDP
8 2 (4.878%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (4.878%) BC Cleared
8 2 (4.878%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.439%) JNCIS
9 1 (2.439%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (2.439%) CISSP
9 1 (2.439%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.439%) QA
2 1 (2.439%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) vSphere
2 4 (9.756%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.317%) ProxySG
3 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.878%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.439%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (9.756%) Nagios
1 4 (9.756%) Puppet
2 3 (7.317%) Cacti
3 2 (4.878%) SCCM
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.439%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.439%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.439%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (2.439%) Unicenter
4 1 (2.439%) OpenView
Vendors
1 38 (92.68%) Cisco
2 10 (24.39%) F5
3 9 (21.95%) Juniper
3 9 (21.95%) HP
4 8 (19.51%) VMware
5 7 (17.07%) Blue Coat
5 7 (17.07%) Oracle
6 6 (14.63%) Nokia
6 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
7 4 (9.756%) NetApp
8 3 (7.317%) EMC
8 3 (7.317%) Citrix
8 3 (7.317%) Microsoft
9 2 (4.878%) Websense
9 2 (4.878%) Symantec
9 2 (4.878%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (4.878%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.439%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.439%) Imperva
10 1 (2.439%) NetScout
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