The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Check Point Software Technologies.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 86 68 73
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +5
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 9 16 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.830% 1.621% 0.590%
As % of the Vendors category 1.374% 3.013% 1.608%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 5
Average salary £68,750 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.76% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Vendors
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
655 531 311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 60.42% 53.80% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 584 434 296
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,100 £28,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
CheckPoint
East of England

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire CheckPoint Jobs Demand Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire CheckPoint Salary Histogram

CheckPoint
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -5 1 £52,500 +31.25%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £67,500 -
CheckPoint
East of England

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CheckPoint.

1 22 (75.86%) Cisco
1 22 (75.86%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (72.41%) CCNP
3 17 (58.62%) WAN
4 16 (55.17%) LAN
4 16 (55.17%) CCSP
5 14 (48.28%) CCIE
5 14 (48.28%) CCNA
5 14 (48.28%) Firewall
6 13 (44.83%) Cisco PIX
7 12 (41.38%) CCSA
8 11 (37.93%) CCSE
9 10 (34.48%) Finance
9 10 (34.48%) BGP
10 9 (31.03%) Juniper
10 9 (31.03%) MPLS
10 9 (31.03%) Network Security
10 9 (31.03%) F5
11 8 (27.59%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (27.59%) OSPF
12 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (24.14%) SLA
12 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
12 7 (24.14%) MCSE
12 7 (24.14%) MS Excel
12 7 (24.14%) SQL
12 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
12 7 (24.14%) ITIL
12 7 (24.14%) Windows

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CheckPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.448%) Web Services
1 1 (3.448%) XML
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (58.62%) WAN
2 16 (55.17%) LAN
3 14 (48.28%) Firewall
4 13 (44.83%) Cisco PIX
5 10 (34.48%) BGP
6 9 (31.03%) MPLS
6 9 (31.03%) Network Security
7 8 (27.59%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (27.59%) OSPF
8 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
8 7 (24.14%) BIG-IP
9 6 (20.69%) FWSM
9 6 (20.69%) EIGRP
10 5 (17.24%) Wireless
11 4 (13.79%) VPN
12 3 (10.34%) Wireless Security
13 2 (6.897%) Cisco Nexus
14 1 (3.448%) Unified Communications
14 1 (3.448%) HTTPS
14 1 (3.448%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) MySQL
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Consultant
1 10 (34.48%) Network Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Network Support
3 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Project Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) IT Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Security Specialist
7 1 (3.448%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (3.448%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.448%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.448%) Network Specialist
7 1 (3.448%) Network Security Specialist
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
1 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) ITIL
2 4 (13.79%) Network Design
3 1 (3.448%) Load Balancing
3 1 (3.448%) Data Security
3 1 (3.448%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.448%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (75.86%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (72.41%) CCNP
3 16 (55.17%) CCSP
4 14 (48.28%) CCIE
4 14 (48.28%) CCNA
5 12 (41.38%) CCSA
6 11 (37.93%) CCSE
7 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (24.14%) MCSE
8 6 (20.69%) CCIP
9 3 (10.34%) CCDP
10 1 (3.448%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.897%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) Cisco
2 9 (31.03%) Juniper
2 9 (31.03%) F5
3 3 (10.34%) Twitter
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.897%) HP
4 2 (6.897%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.448%) Symantec
5 1 (3.448%) Citrix
5 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.448%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.448%) Brocade
5 1 (3.448%) Fortinet