The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 43 53 50
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 11 6 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.132% 1.202% 3.541%
As % of the Vendors category 4.435% 2.740% 6.394%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 23
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -6.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Vendors
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
248 219 391
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 48.06% 43.89% 55.38%
Number of salaries quoted 206 183 299
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex CheckPoint Salary Histogram

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (93.33%) Firewall
3 25 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (76.67%) Cisco ASA
5 22 (73.33%) CCNP
6 20 (66.67%) Wireless
7 16 (53.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 15 (50.00%) WAN
9 14 (46.67%) CCNA
10 12 (40.00%) Juniper
11 11 (36.67%) VMware
11 11 (36.67%) F5
12 10 (33.33%) Network Design
12 10 (33.33%) ITIL
13 9 (30.00%) VPN
14 8 (26.67%) BGP
14 8 (26.67%) MPLS
14 8 (26.67%) LAN
14 8 (26.67%) FWSM
15 7 (23.33%) CCSA
15 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (23.33%) Cisco PIX
16 6 (20.00%) Problem Management
16 6 (20.00%) Nokia
17 5 (16.67%) Service Management
17 5 (16.67%) Digital Media
18 4 (13.33%) CCSE
18 4 (13.33%) Oracle
18 4 (13.33%) Linux
19 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 28 (93.33%) Firewall
2 23 (76.67%) Cisco ASA
3 20 (66.67%) Wireless
4 16 (53.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 15 (50.00%) WAN
6 9 (30.00%) VPN
7 8 (26.67%) MPLS
7 8 (26.67%) BGP
7 8 (26.67%) LAN
7 8 (26.67%) FWSM
8 7 (23.33%) Cisco PIX
9 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
9 3 (10.00%) Intranet
9 3 (10.00%) Internet
9 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
10 2 (6.667%) Network Security
10 2 (6.667%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (3.333%) EIGRP
11 1 (3.333%) SAN
11 1 (3.333%) OSPF
General
1 3 (10.00%) Back Office
2 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) Network Consultant
2 8 (26.67%) Consultant
2 8 (26.67%) Network Administrator
3 7 (23.33%) Cisco Consultant
3 7 (23.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco Administrator
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) ITIL
1 10 (33.33%) Network Design
2 6 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 5 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.333%) Migration
6 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (73.33%) CCNP
3 14 (46.67%) CCNA
4 7 (23.33%) CCSA
5 4 (13.33%) CCSE
6 3 (10.00%) CCSP
7 2 (6.667%) CCIE
8 1 (3.333%) MCSE
8 1 (3.333%) MCSA
8 1 (3.333%) CCDP
8 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.667%) CiscoWorks
1 2 (6.667%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (40.00%) Juniper
3 11 (36.67%) VMware
3 11 (36.67%) F5
4 6 (20.00%) Nokia
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle
6 2 (6.667%) Avaya
6 2 (6.667%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.333%) Veritas
7 1 (3.333%) Symantec
7 1 (3.333%) NetApp
7 1 (3.333%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.333%) HP
7 1 (3.333%) Citrix