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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank 651 660 709
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +49
Permanent jobs citing CCSE 192 208 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.190% 0.183% 0.120%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.689% 0.668% 0.461%
Number of salaries quoted 132 198 110
Average salary £37,750 £49,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.95% +8.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,000 £34,700
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £77,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-14.70% -5.55%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27848 31150 30564
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.53% 27.48% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 22693 26719 25735
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £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%
CCSE
UK

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England CCSE Jobs Demand Trend

CCSE
Salary Trend

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

England CCSE Salary Trend

CCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CCSE across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England CCSE Salary Histogram

CCSE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East -3 90 £38,500 -9.94%
London +2 37 £52,500 -16.00%
Yorkshire +32 32 £32,500 -29.34%
West Midlands -9 13 £40,000 -33.33%
North West +8 8 £47,500 +29.25%
South West +2 6 - -
East of England +6 5 - -
CCSE
UK

CCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing CCSE 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 CCSE.

1 475 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 384 (80.84%) Cisco
3 319 (67.16%) Cisco Certification
4 301 (63.37%) CCSA
5 297 (62.53%) Juniper
6 295 (62.11%) Network Security
7 293 (61.68%) Firewall
8 287 (60.42%) F5
9 253 (53.26%) CCNP
10 250 (52.63%) Blue Coat
11 243 (51.16%) Cisco ASA
12 202 (42.53%) Cisco PIX
13 156 (32.84%) JNCIA
14 143 (30.11%) TCP/IP
15 133 (28.00%) JNCIS
16 132 (27.79%) Finance
17 125 (26.32%) CISSP
18 122 (25.68%) CCNA
19 118 (24.84%) UNIX
19 118 (24.84%) Windows
20 100 (21.05%) CCSP
21 99 (20.84%) Websense
22 95 (20.00%) Sourcefire
23 93 (19.58%) Project Management
23 93 (19.58%) Telecoms
24 78 (16.42%) WAN
25 77 (16.21%) CCIE
26 74 (15.58%) VPN
27 70 (14.74%) Wireless
28 69 (14.53%) Cisco Nexus

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing CCSE 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 CCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (0.632%) CSS
2 2 (0.421%) .NET
2 2 (0.421%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (0.632%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.421%) IIS
2 2 (0.421%) Exchange Server 2000
2 2 (0.421%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (0.421%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.211%) Lync
Applications
1 24 (5.053%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 295 (62.11%) Network Security
2 293 (61.68%) Firewall
3 243 (51.16%) Cisco ASA
4 202 (42.53%) Cisco PIX
5 143 (30.11%) TCP/IP
6 78 (16.42%) WAN
7 74 (15.58%) VPN
8 70 (14.74%) Wireless
9 69 (14.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 52 (10.95%) Internet
11 51 (10.74%) LAN
12 48 (10.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 47 (9.895%) WLAN
13 47 (9.895%) MPLS
14 44 (9.263%) BIG-IP
15 39 (8.211%) FWSM
16 35 (7.368%) OSPF
16 35 (7.368%) DNS
17 30 (6.316%) BGP
18 28 (5.895%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.421%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (0.421%) SQL Server
1 2 (0.421%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (0.421%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 132 (27.79%) Finance
2 93 (19.58%) Telecoms
3 13 (2.737%) French Language
3 13 (2.737%) German Language
4 8 (1.684%) Banking
4 8 (1.684%) Retail
5 7 (1.474%) Billing
6 5 (1.053%) Back Office
7 4 (0.842%) Marketing
8 3 (0.632%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.211%) Military
9 1 (0.211%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 209 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 200 (42.11%) Security Engineer
3 117 (24.63%) Network Security Engineer
4 95 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 84 (17.68%) Consultant
6 66 (13.89%) Analyst
7 65 (13.68%) Security Analyst
8 63 (13.26%) Support Engineer
9 50 (10.53%) Security Support Engineer
10 45 (9.474%) Security Consultant
11 37 (7.789%) Network Consultant
12 28 (5.895%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (5.684%) Cisco Engineer
13 27 (5.684%) Senior Security Analyst
14 25 (5.263%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 19 (4.000%) Cisco Consultant
16 15 (3.158%) Network Support
17 14 (2.947%) Network Security Consultant
17 14 (2.947%) Cisco Network Consultant
18 13 (2.737%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (1.474%) SaaS
2 4 (0.842%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (0.632%) Derivative
3 3 (0.632%) Fixed Income
3 3 (0.632%) Clustering
4 1 (0.211%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.211%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.211%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.211%) PKI
4 1 (0.211%) Firmware
4 1 (0.211%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 118 (24.84%) UNIX
1 118 (24.84%) Windows
2 4 (0.842%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (0.632%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (0.632%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (0.421%) Linux
5 1 (0.211%) AIX
5 1 (0.211%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.58%) Project Management
2 61 (12.84%) PRINCE2
3 39 (8.211%) Network Design
4 37 (7.789%) Change Management
5 34 (7.158%) Customer Engagement
6 33 (6.947%) ITIL
7 18 (3.789%) SIEM
8 17 (3.579%) Network Management
9 14 (2.947%) Information Security
10 7 (1.474%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (1.474%) CRM
11 6 (1.263%) Mobile Device Management
11 6 (1.263%) Service Delivery
11 6 (1.263%) Business Continuity
11 6 (1.263%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 6 (1.263%) Load Balancing
11 6 (1.263%) Data Protection
12 5 (1.053%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (0.842%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (0.842%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.526%) SQL
2 1 (0.211%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.211%) Perl
Qualifications
1 319 (67.16%) Cisco Certification
2 301 (63.37%) CCSA
3 253 (53.26%) CCNP
4 156 (32.84%) JNCIA
5 133 (28.00%) JNCIS
6 125 (26.32%) CISSP
7 122 (25.68%) CCNA
8 100 (21.05%) CCSP
9 77 (16.21%) CCIE
10 59 (12.42%) JNCIE
11 42 (8.842%) Check Point Certification
12 41 (8.632%) CCDP
13 28 (5.895%) CCIP
14 27 (5.684%) CCDA
15 26 (5.474%) Security Cleared
15 26 (5.474%) CCVP
16 21 (4.421%) SC Cleared
17 15 (3.158%) Degree
18 13 (2.737%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (2.737%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.842%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.105%) ISO 9000
3 6 (1.263%) SLA
4 4 (0.842%) QA
System Software
1 13 (2.737%) ProxySG
1 13 (2.737%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.684%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.421%) UAG
3 2 (0.421%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (0.211%) vSphere
4 1 (0.211%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.211%) XenApp
4 1 (0.211%) XenServer
4 1 (0.211%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.211%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (1.895%) CiscoWorks
2 6 (1.263%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (0.632%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.632%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.421%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 475 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 384 (80.84%) Cisco
3 297 (62.53%) Juniper
4 287 (60.42%) F5
5 250 (52.63%) Blue Coat
6 99 (20.84%) Websense
7 95 (20.00%) Sourcefire
8 59 (12.42%) IBM
8 59 (12.42%) McAfee
9 46 (9.684%) Microsoft
9 46 (9.684%) HP
9 46 (9.684%) Fortinet
10 34 (7.158%) ProCurve
11 29 (6.105%) VMware
12 17 (3.579%) Twitter
13 15 (3.158%) Nokia
14 12 (2.526%) Mitel
15 4 (0.842%) Radware
15 4 (0.842%) Huawei
15 4 (0.842%) SonicWALL
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