The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint 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 Vendors for the Sheffield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 50 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 7 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.336% 0.489% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.431% 1.181% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 0
Average salary £32,500 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Vendors
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
204 254 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 38.93% 41.37% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 182 230 181
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,950 £22,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £67,000 £54,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
CheckPoint
South Yorkshire

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (63.64%) Cisco
1 7 (63.64%) CCNA
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) CCNP
3 5 (45.45%) CCSE
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco PIX
3 5 (45.45%) Network Security
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (45.45%) CCSP
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Information Security
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 4 (36.36%) VMware ESX
4 4 (36.36%) SAN
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
4 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
4 4 (36.36%) LAN
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) IIS
4 4 (36.36%) WAN
4 4 (36.36%) DHCP
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) DNS
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) IIS
1 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco PIX
2 5 (45.45%) Network Security
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (36.36%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) LAN
3 4 (36.36%) WAN
3 4 (36.36%) DHCP
3 4 (36.36%) DNS
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Network Security Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Security Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) IT Security Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
1 5 (45.45%) Information Security
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Network Design
3 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) CCNA
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CCNP
3 5 (45.45%) CCSE
3 5 (45.45%) CCSP
4 1 (9.091%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) Juniper
3 2 (18.18%) Mitel
4 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.091%) WatchGuard