The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CheckPoint
Rank 59 51 57
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +6
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 6 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 0.958% 1.525% 0.402%
As % of the Vendors category 2.778% 3.382% 0.943%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 2
Average salary £48,500 £50,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.00% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Vendors
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
216 207 212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 34.50% 45.10% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 192 200 196
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
CheckPoint
South West

CheckPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Somerset CheckPoint Salary Histogram

CheckPoint
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Yeovil +2 3 £48,500 -3.00%
Bath - 1 £42,500 -
CheckPoint
South West

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (73.33%) Firewall
3 8 (53.33%) EIGRP
3 8 (53.33%) Juniper
3 8 (53.33%) MPLS
3 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
3 8 (53.33%) VPN
3 8 (53.33%) DNS
4 7 (46.67%) ADSL
4 7 (46.67%) ISDN
4 7 (46.67%) SDH
4 7 (46.67%) ITIL
4 7 (46.67%) OSPF
4 7 (46.67%) BGP
4 7 (46.67%) Internet
4 7 (46.67%) Ethernet
4 7 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (46.67%) TACACS
4 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
4 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (46.67%) IPsec
4 7 (46.67%) SHDSL
5 6 (40.00%) Change Management
5 6 (40.00%) CCNA
5 6 (40.00%) 3G
5 6 (40.00%) Fault Management
6 5 (33.33%) UNIX
6 5 (33.33%) WAN
7 4 (26.67%) LAN
7 4 (26.67%) Windows

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) EIGRP
2 8 (53.33%) MPLS
2 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) DNS
3 7 (46.67%) ADSL
3 7 (46.67%) ISDN
3 7 (46.67%) SDH
3 7 (46.67%) OSPF
3 7 (46.67%) BGP
3 7 (46.67%) Internet
3 7 (46.67%) Ethernet
3 7 (46.67%) TACACS
3 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
3 7 (46.67%) IPsec
3 7 (46.67%) SHDSL
4 6 (40.00%) 3G
5 5 (33.33%) WAN
6 4 (26.67%) LAN
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Operations Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Operations Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) IT Security Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Security Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Security Specialist
3 1 (6.667%) IP Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) UNIX
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Change Management
2 6 (40.00%) Fault Management
3 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Information Security
4 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (20.00%) Network Management
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Process Management
4 3 (20.00%) CRM
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL V3
5 1 (6.667%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (40.00%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 4 (26.67%) CCIP
3 4 (26.67%) CISSP
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (20.00%) CCDP
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) Juniper
3 4 (26.67%) Nokia
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Foundry
4 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Veritas
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (6.667%) SolarWinds
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