The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridge 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 106 124 120
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -4
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 11 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.634% 0.248% 0.333%
As % of the Vendors category 1.536% 0.648% 1.155%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 7
Average salary £48,500 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.72% +10.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,400 £36,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
716 772 606
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 41.24% 38.29% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 613 685 548
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £30,000 £27,313
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
CheckPoint
Cambridgeshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cambridge CheckPoint Salary Histogram

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 37 (90.24%) Cisco
2 29 (70.73%) Firewall
3 22 (53.66%) Windows
3 22 (53.66%) F5
4 17 (41.46%) ITIL
4 17 (41.46%) CCNP
4 17 (41.46%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (39.02%) Juniper
6 15 (36.59%) Linux
7 13 (31.71%) Apache
7 13 (31.71%) SAN
7 13 (31.71%) VMware
7 13 (31.71%) Network Security
7 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (29.27%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
9 9 (21.95%) Load Balancing
10 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
10 7 (17.07%) Debian
10 7 (17.07%) vSphere
10 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
10 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
10 7 (17.07%) Tomcat
10 7 (17.07%) Python
10 7 (17.07%) Perl
10 7 (17.07%) Oracle
11 6 (14.63%) IIS
11 6 (14.63%) DHCP
11 6 (14.63%) VoIP
11 6 (14.63%) DNS

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (4.878%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 13 (31.71%) Apache
2 7 (17.07%) Tomcat
3 6 (14.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (70.73%) Firewall
2 13 (31.71%) SAN
2 13 (31.71%) Network Security
3 12 (29.27%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (14.63%) DHCP
4 6 (14.63%) VoIP
4 6 (14.63%) Internet
4 6 (14.63%) DNS
5 4 (9.756%) Cisco PIX
5 4 (9.756%) LAN
5 4 (9.756%) WAN
5 4 (9.756%) VPN
6 3 (7.317%) Wireless
7 2 (4.878%) BIG-IP
7 2 (4.878%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.878%) MPLS
7 2 (4.878%) OSPF
7 2 (4.878%) BGP
7 2 (4.878%) EIGRP
General
1 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
2 4 (9.756%) Finance
2 4 (9.756%) German Language
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Network Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Security Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) Analyst
4 10 (24.39%) Consultant
5 7 (17.07%) Support Analyst
5 7 (17.07%) Support Consultant
5 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) Network Support
5 7 (17.07%) Linux Support
6 6 (14.63%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) Network Consultant
8 4 (9.756%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (9.756%) Security Analyst
8 4 (9.756%) Network Support Engineer
8 4 (9.756%) Team Leader
8 4 (9.756%) Senior Security Analyst
8 4 (9.756%) Security Support Engineer
9 3 (7.317%) Security Consultant
9 3 (7.317%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (7.317%) Technical Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.756%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.878%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 22 (53.66%) Windows
2 15 (36.59%) Linux
3 7 (17.07%) Debian
4 4 (9.756%) UNIX
5 2 (4.878%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.878%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) ITIL
2 9 (21.95%) Load Balancing
3 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
4 6 (14.63%) Information Security Management
4 6 (14.63%) Security Management
4 6 (14.63%) Information Security
4 6 (14.63%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (9.756%) Service Delivery
5 4 (9.756%) SIEM
6 3 (7.317%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (7.317%) Change Control
7 2 (4.878%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (4.878%) Data Security
7 2 (4.878%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Perl
1 7 (17.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) CCNP
1 17 (41.46%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.756%) CCSE
2 4 (9.756%) JNCIS
3 3 (7.317%) CISSP
4 2 (4.878%) CCNA
4 2 (4.878%) CCDP
5 1 (2.439%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) COBIT
1 6 (14.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.439%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.07%) vSphere
3 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
3 6 (14.63%) VMware ESX
4 4 (9.756%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.878%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (4.878%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (4.878%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 37 (90.24%) Cisco
2 22 (53.66%) F5
3 16 (39.02%) Juniper
4 13 (31.71%) VMware
5 7 (17.07%) Oracle
5 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
6 6 (14.63%) Symantec
6 6 (14.63%) Blue Coat
7 4 (9.756%) Sourcefire
7 4 (9.756%) Fortinet
7 4 (9.756%) Websense
7 4 (9.756%) Qualys
7 4 (9.756%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.878%) HP
8 2 (4.878%) Nokia
8 2 (4.878%) Remedy
8 2 (4.878%) Apple
8 2 (4.878%) ProCurve
8 2 (4.878%) Crossbeam
8 2 (4.878%) SonicWALL