The first table below looks at the demand for CCSA in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CCSA over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications for the England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
Rank 673 681 730
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +49
Permanent jobs citing CCSA 174 176 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.171% 0.155% 0.114%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.623% 0.564% 0.440%
Number of salaries quoted 138 164 105
Average salary £39,000 £50,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.77% +12.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,250 £39,300 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £77,500 £61,250
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27944 31233 29999
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.50% 27.45% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 22794 26772 25214
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
CCSA
UK

CCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CCSA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England CCSA Jobs Demand Trend

CCSA
Salary Trend

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

England CCSA Salary Trend

CCSA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CCSA across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England CCSA Salary Histogram

CCSA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
South East +74 113 £39,000 -4.87%
London -41 27 £51,000 -18.40%
Yorkshire 0 21 £28,000 -30.00%
West Midlands -22 4 £45,000 -2.70%
Midlands - 4 - -
East of England +7 3 £52,500 +25.00%
South West -7 2 £39,000 -5.45%
North West -11 1 £62,500 +89.39%
CCSA
UK

CCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing CCSA 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 CCSA.

1 386 (87.93%) CheckPoint
2 341 (77.68%) Cisco
3 306 (69.70%) CCSE
4 272 (61.96%) Cisco Certification
5 258 (58.77%) Firewall
6 236 (53.76%) Juniper
7 215 (48.97%) Network Security
8 195 (44.42%) F5
9 180 (41.00%) CCNP
10 169 (38.50%) CCNA
10 169 (38.50%) Cisco ASA
11 165 (37.59%) JNCIA
12 164 (37.36%) Cisco PIX
13 144 (32.80%) WAN
14 143 (32.57%) Blue Coat
15 140 (31.89%) TCP/IP
16 131 (29.84%) Windows
17 127 (28.93%) UNIX
18 126 (28.70%) CISSP
19 118 (26.88%) VPN
20 107 (24.37%) CCSP
21 105 (23.92%) CCIE
22 103 (23.46%) LAN
23 89 (20.27%) MPLS
24 70 (15.95%) OSPF
25 67 (15.26%) Project Management
25 67 (15.26%) BGP
26 66 (15.03%) JNCIE
27 65 (14.81%) IBM
28 62 (14.12%) Wireless

CCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing CCSA 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 CCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (0.683%) Web Services
2 2 (0.456%) XML
3 1 (0.228%) JSON
3 1 (0.228%) CSS
3 1 (0.228%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (0.911%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (0.228%) Lync
2 1 (0.228%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 17 (3.872%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.595%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 258 (58.77%) Firewall
2 215 (48.97%) Network Security
3 169 (38.50%) Cisco ASA
4 164 (37.36%) Cisco PIX
5 144 (32.80%) WAN
6 140 (31.89%) TCP/IP
7 118 (26.88%) VPN
8 103 (23.46%) LAN
9 89 (20.27%) MPLS
10 70 (15.95%) OSPF
11 67 (15.26%) BGP
12 62 (14.12%) Wireless
13 56 (12.76%) Internet
14 55 (12.53%) EIGRP
15 54 (12.30%) FWSM
16 52 (11.85%) Intrusion Detection
17 43 (9.795%) DNS
18 41 (9.339%) BIG-IP
19 40 (9.112%) Cisco Nexus
20 30 (6.834%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.456%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.228%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 59 (13.44%) Finance
2 13 (2.961%) French Language
2 13 (2.961%) German Language
3 12 (2.733%) Telecoms
4 11 (2.506%) Banking
5 8 (1.822%) Retail
6 7 (1.595%) Marketing
7 6 (1.367%) Billing
8 5 (1.139%) Back Office
8 5 (1.139%) Law
9 3 (0.683%) Publishing
9 3 (0.683%) Legal
9 3 (0.683%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.456%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 152 (34.62%) Network Engineer
2 117 (26.65%) Security Engineer
3 93 (21.18%) Consultant
4 87 (19.82%) Analyst
5 78 (17.77%) Security Analyst
6 63 (14.35%) Support Engineer
7 47 (10.71%) Security Consultant
8 46 (10.48%) Security Support Engineer
9 45 (10.25%) Network Security Engineer
10 38 (8.656%) Network Consultant
11 34 (7.745%) Senior Network Engineer
12 27 (6.150%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (6.150%) Senior Security Analyst
13 24 (5.467%) Network Analyst
14 18 (4.100%) Cisco Engineer
15 16 (3.645%) Network Security Analyst
15 16 (3.645%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 15 (3.417%) Pre Sales Consultant
16 15 (3.417%) Senior Consultant
16 15 (3.417%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.645%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (1.595%) SaaS
3 4 (0.911%) Clustering
3 4 (0.911%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (0.911%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (0.683%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (0.683%) Derivative
4 3 (0.683%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.456%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.228%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.228%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.228%) Physics
6 1 (0.228%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.228%) PKI
6 1 (0.228%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 131 (29.84%) Windows
2 127 (28.93%) UNIX
3 17 (3.872%) Linux
4 4 (0.911%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.228%) AIX
5 1 (0.228%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (15.26%) Project Management
2 60 (13.67%) PRINCE2
3 57 (12.98%) Network Design
4 53 (12.07%) ITIL
5 39 (8.884%) Network Management
6 35 (7.973%) Load Balancing
7 14 (3.189%) SIEM
8 13 (2.961%) Service Delivery
9 12 (2.733%) Information Security
9 12 (2.733%) Security Architecture
9 12 (2.733%) Network Architecture
10 11 (2.506%) Incident Management
10 11 (2.506%) Penetration Testing
10 11 (2.506%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (2.278%) Data Protection
12 9 (2.050%) E-Commerce
13 7 (1.595%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 6 (1.367%) CRM
14 6 (1.367%) Business Continuity
14 6 (1.367%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.278%) SQL
2 2 (0.456%) PHP
3 1 (0.228%) Bash shell
3 1 (0.228%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.228%) Ruby
3 1 (0.228%) C#
3 1 (0.228%) Java
3 1 (0.228%) Perl
3 1 (0.228%) Python
Qualifications
1 306 (69.70%) CCSE
2 272 (61.96%) Cisco Certification
3 180 (41.00%) CCNP
4 169 (38.50%) CCNA
5 165 (37.59%) JNCIA
6 126 (28.70%) CISSP
7 107 (24.37%) CCSP
8 105 (23.92%) CCIE
9 66 (15.03%) JNCIE
10 60 (13.67%) JNCIS
11 52 (11.85%) CCDP
12 39 (8.884%) CCDA
13 36 (8.200%) CCVP
14 33 (7.517%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (7.517%) CCIP
15 30 (6.834%) MCSE
16 28 (6.378%) Security Cleared
16 28 (6.378%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 26 (5.923%) SC Cleared
18 17 (3.872%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.784%) ISO 9000
3 14 (3.189%) SLA
4 5 (1.139%) QA
5 4 (0.911%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.911%) ISO 9002
6 1 (0.228%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (4.100%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.822%) ProxySG
2 8 (1.822%) XenServer
3 7 (1.595%) XenApp
4 6 (1.367%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.911%) vSphere
6 2 (0.456%) UAG
6 2 (0.456%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.456%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.228%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.228%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.556%) CiscoWorks
2 18 (4.100%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (0.228%) Puppet
Vendors
1 386 (87.93%) CheckPoint
2 341 (77.68%) Cisco
3 236 (53.76%) Juniper
4 195 (44.42%) F5
5 143 (32.57%) Blue Coat
6 65 (14.81%) IBM
7 62 (14.12%) McAfee
8 59 (13.44%) Sourcefire
9 46 (10.48%) VMware
10 40 (9.112%) Microsoft
11 25 (5.695%) TippingPoint
11 25 (5.695%) HP
12 22 (5.011%) Nokia
13 21 (4.784%) Twitter
14 17 (3.872%) Foundry
14 17 (3.872%) Brocade
15 13 (2.961%) SolarWinds
15 13 (2.961%) NetApp
16 12 (2.733%) Mitel
17 11 (2.506%) Dell
North London
Firewall Engineer - Checkpoint, Juniper, Sonicwall - Bounds Green, North London - Up to £52,000 plus £10,000 - £12,000 in site allowances... To be suitable for this position you...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Internet/Network Security skills - firewalls, proxies, Intrusion Detection Systems, etc. Solid Exposure of UNIX & Windows OS. Also, any Professional IT Accreditations (CISSP, CCSA, CCSE, JNCIA) would be considered...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30000 - 40000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Guildford, South East
Major Technology Consulting firm is looking for a highly experienced Cisco Network Engineer specialising in Cisco devices to join their Guildford based, UK Network Infrastructure Team, that has...
Hudson
Salary: £32000 - £50000 per annum + Package
Posted: 4 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
My client is a fast paced, blue chip organisation, looking for a CCNA/CCSA qualified Network Infrastructure Engineer near Woking... Skills/experience required: CCNA / CCSA. VoIP support. Cisco,...
set2recruit
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Telford, West Midlands
We are currently working with a client based in Telford to recruit an experienced Network Team Lead to work on a permanent basis- This role is part of...
GSA Techsource
Salary: GBP0 per annum + Benefits: Excellent package
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Midlands
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Network Team Leader to join a globally recognised market leader in their field in this pivotal new role within a...
GSA Techsource
Salary: GBP0 per annum + Benefits: Fantastic Benefits Package
Posted: 17 May 2013